Agile Project Management using Team Foundation Server 2015

This book will help you get started with agile project management using Microsoft's latest releases of its marketing leading Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015, and Visual Studio Online (VSO). It will demonstrate agile concepts and how these can be implemented using TFS/VSO. § Many organizations are using agile practices today. Agility has become a key enabler for running better projects with more successful end results and high quality output. At the same time adoption of TFS/VSO has increased dramatically, from being just a new version control system in the very beginning to becoming the fully featured market leader it is today. § In order to benefit the most from agile practices you need an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) toolset that supports your way of working. With TFS/VSO Microsoft has provided us with a powerful tool that is also very customizable. This book will show you how you can use TFS/VSO to implement many agile practices and also how these fit into a well thought out ALM implementation. The book will also show how an agile product owner can work with TFS/VSO to setup an agile project from scratch and how the he or she can continue using TFS/VSO during the whole project. This includes tracking progress, creating and refining the backlog, working with Kanban and Scrum Task boards and many other key concepts. § Keeping track of progress is important in any project. TFS/VSO includes many tools that will help you to track many key metrics in an agile project. Many useful reports are available out of the box, and the TFS extensibility offers many ways to further customize reporting that fits your needs. § What You Will Learn: §§Agile Concepts and Processes§§How TFS/VSO supports agile processes end to end§§How you can customize TFS/VSO to better support your processes§§How to set up an agile project from scratch and manage it over its lifecycle§ §