Agile Software Development with Team Foundation Server (TFS) Training
COURSE TYPE
Advanced
Course Number
1816
Duration
4 Days
Develop a project from initial requirements to deployment using Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) as a complete Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool. With this training course, you will explore the features of TFS, including backlog items, Kanban boards, burndown charts, bugs, and more to achieve continuous integration with automated builds and deployment.
You Will Learn How To
- Enhance team collaboration and craft higher quality software in less time using TFS
- Perform check-in, check-out, branching, and merging of source code using Visual Studio
- Define build configurations that include unit tests and deployment
- Administer TFS projects and teams
- Estimate, prioritize, and schedule backlog items within sprints
Important Course Information
Recommended Experience:
- Familiarity with Agile principles is helpful to the level of: Course 918, Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean & XP
- Work experience using the iterative cycle and collaborative Agile spirit
Software:
- This course uses Team Foundation Server 2013
Course Outline
- Application Lifecycle Management with Team Foundation Server
Comparing traditional and Agile methodologies
- Waterfall
- CMMI
- Scrum
- XP
- Benefiting from value-driven development
- Scheduling releases, iterations and Sprints
- Achieving XP best practices with TFS
- Introducing Team Foundation Server
Surveying TFS features
- Team collaboration
- Process templates
- Version control
- Automated builds
- Integrated tests
Evaluating TFS editions
- Choosing Team Foundation Server vs. TFS Express
- Exploiting Visual Studio Team Services
- Administering Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services
Installing TFS
- Planning a TFS installation
- Creating collections with the administrative console
- Managing project security and group membership with the Web control panel
Securing TFS projects
- Assigning permissions to security groups
- Adding users to teams and projects
- Restricting user rights
- Configuring user alerts
Creating projects for TFS and Visual Studio Team Services
- Comparing the built-in Scrum, CMMI and Agile process templates
- Specifying source control
- Customizing process templates
- Managing Work with Team Foundation Server
Mapping TFS and Agile process terms
- Defining epics and user stories as TFS work items
- Inputting features and backlog items
- Estimating and prioritizing work items
- Breaking backlog items into tasks
Organizing backlogs
- Scheduling start and end dates for releases and Sprints
- Assigning backlog items to iterations and team members
- Recording work remaining and status
- Monitoring team progress
- Maintaining Source Code with Version Control
Collaborating on code with Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) and Git
- Selecting centralized vs. distributed version control
- Synchronizing local repositories with the master repository
- Viewing project history with changesets
Connecting to TFS from Visual Studio Team Explorer
- Checking out and checking in source code
- Merging changesets from multiple developers
- Branching for release management and maintenance
- Resolving multi-user conflicts
- Adding existing code to TFS source control
Integrating version control with client applications
- Plugging TFVC into Windows Explorer
- Linking TFS to Eclipse and Xcode
- Executing TFS commands in the console
- Achieving Continuous Integration
Creating, running and automating builds
- Defining and scheduling builds
- Managing releases and deployments
- Controlling build output
Crafting quality software through continuous testing
- Integrating unit testing into builds
- Leveraging Visual Studio code analysis and testing tools
- Creating TFS test scripts for manual testing
- Documenting and tracking bugs
- Scheduling and Monitoring Team Progress
Managing backlogs and querying TFS content
- Assigning work to iterations
- Querying and defining iteration backlogs
- Visualizing work-in-progress with Kanban boards
- Monitoring progress with burndown charts
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Standard
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Standard
$2990
Government
$2659
Private Team Training
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Training Hours
Standard Course Hours: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
*Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
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