Tejasvi KumarDeveloper Technology SpecialistMicrosoft India

Individuals carrying the burden

People in different roles working for a shared purpose

Project Manager

Developers

Sponsor

Tester

UserExperience

Architect

Team-Based Development

Team Collaboration Chaos

E-mail

Meetings

IM

Status Reports

PhoneCalls

Text Messaging

TrackingSystem

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Development Lifecycle Scenarios…

And, a typical Change Request Process

Useful set of tools, but they don’t talk to each other…

Integrated Toolset!!! Does it help?

What we've been hearing….

Have no visibility into work status

Cannot quantify quality

Cannot meet deadlines

Cannot release multiple fixes

Do not know what went into a release

Do not know what’s been tested

Missing features in products

Developers fix same bug

Team Foundation Server

Tester

Developer

Architect

ProjectManager

BusinessAnalyst

Designer Database Professional

Unified Project Server

Team Foundation ServerFacilitates team collaboration

Work Item Management & progress monitoring

Bugs

Development Tasks

Issues

…

Source control

Team Build

Process Guidance

Real-time Reporting

Team Portal Team Foundation Server

Business

Analyst Project

Manager

Dev

Team

Test

Operations

ChangeRequests

Use Case

Non FunctionalRequirements

Bugs

Tasks

ProductionErrors

Example Workflow

“Work Items are the units of communication within the development team”

Manage Team Workflow

Work item tracking throughout the lifecycleEnables traceability

Work Item templates are defined by the Process Template

Support for multiple work item typesScenario, Requirement, Task, Bug, more

Fully customizable

Use Familiar Tools

Team members can use tools they already know, including…

Managing Team Workflow

Integrate Work Frequently

Full featured version control and build systemCheck-in Policies

Shelving

Promotion Modeling

Labeling

Scheduled Builds

Continuous Integration

Promotion Modeling

Branches of varying quality

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Distributed DevelopmentSource Control Proxy

SOAP Messages

File Uploads

Source Control Proxy PerformanceRedmond to Raleigh

Content No Proxy With Proxy

35 MB, 1824 Files 00:05:20 00:00:32

80 MB, 8 Files 00:14:07 00:00:25

* Raleigh office has 3Mbps of bandwidth shared by ~70 employees.

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Events Raised for

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Artifact

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Check E-mail

Notification

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Integration Infrastructure

Version Control

Work Item

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Efficient File Storage

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Version Control in Eclipse on Linux

Integrate Work Frequently

Drive Predictability

Integrated process templates help deliver predictable results

MSF for Agile Teams

MSF for CMMI Process Improvement

Fully customizable

Process Development Model

Process users author the Process Template as experience is gained

ProcessTemplate

Guidance in all forms

Pass to next projectsReuse it ourselves

Create with experience

Guru helps generalize

Stiffening

Process gets less malleable as time goes on

Guidance in all forms

Pass to next projectsReuse it ourselves

Create with experience

Review,triage

Project 1 Project 2 Project n…

Mature factory

Well-developed process can be passed around

Process template

Coaching

From development

Process Enacted By Tooling

A Unified Team Server

Comprehensive business intelligence reporting

Test rates(pass, inconclusive, fail) shown in bars

Code coverage

code churn

and active bugs

Process and Reporting

Around the rumour mill....

“Isn’t TFS just the new version of Visual SourceSafe (VSS)?”

“We already use Visual SourceSafe (VSS) for source control, can’t we keep using it?”

“My developers have written our applications with Visual Studio in the past without the need for a server. Would it

really help us?”

Team Foundation ServerList of things to do

Team Foundation ServerList of things to do

Guidance on what to do

Team Foundation ServerList of things to do

Guidance on what to do

Status reports

Team Foundation ServerList of things to do

Guidance on what to do

Status reports

Planning-MS Project-MS Excel

Team Foundation ServerList of things to do

Guidance on what to do

Status reports

Planning-MS Project-MS Excel

Source control

Team Foundation ServerList of things to do

Guidance on what to do

Status reports

Planning-MS Project-MS Excel Source control

Team builds

Team Foundation ServerList of things to do

Guidance on what to do

Status reports

Planning-MS Project-MS Excel Source control

Team builds

Rules

Team Foundation ServerList of things to do

Guidance on what to do

Status reports

Planning-MS Project-MS Excel Source control

Team builds

Rules

Lets hear them speak….

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Track Resources

TFS Guide:http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide

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