St Louis Days of .NET 2015

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Polaris Solutions ALM Practice Mgr since Jan ‘12

Been in the software industry since 1999

Runs the Chicago ALM User Group

ALM MVP, PSM, PSD, SPC

Has a *possibly* unhealthy love of Halloween

Polaris Solutions- http://www.polarissolutions.com/

Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group - http://www.chicagoalmug.org/

Twitter: @OakParkGirl, @ChicagoALM, @TeamPolaris

Blog - http://www.tfswhisperer.com/

What the heck is TFS?

Why do I care about VSO?

New Agile Planning and Collaboration Features

New Testing Services to Support Constant QA

New Team Dashboards to Accelerate Collaboration

VSO <> Visual Studio on the web. Sorry

VSO includes the entire TFS portion of the VS ALM

platform hosted in Azure data centers

You can leverage on-premise VS with TFS hosted in VSO

VSO offers build, load testing, and release management!

VSO services and Visual Studio can be licensed on a month-

to-month basis

What rocks?

VSO is super easy to setup

VSO is likely FREE for you, or at least really inexpensive

VSO gets updated every 3 weeks!

What’s not awesome?

Template customization is a bit limited (for now)

VSO does not have SharePoint integration or OOB reporting*

VSO is reliant on Azure (scary)

The more you know! -- TFS 2010 Went Out of Standard Support in July!

Quick hide/show parent hierarchies

Drag and drop almost everything

Reorder everything, including entire hierarchies

Visualize PBI tasks on the Kanban Board

Quick add PBIs directly to sprint backlogs

Re-order tasks quickly

Orphaned stories don’t disappear when you switch views!

Expanded Capacity Planning Activities

Drag and drop sprint items everywhere to update delivery plans

Board Column: current Kanban board column the work item is in

Board Column Done: False (Doing) or True (Done)

Board Lane: current Kanban board swim lane

One-click bugs-on-the-backlog customization

One-click adding of new backlog levels

Set team-level working days from board settings

Use swim lanes to carve out special work queues

Communicate handoffs with Doing/Done splits

Use Card Styles to Visually Radiate Important Information

Make important tags stand out

Share your Definition of Done on the backog

Show lots of additional fields on cards

Card Styles

Show additional fields on cards

More to come!

Test Pane

Test Run Explorer

Test retention policies

Browser-based exploratory testing – coming soon!!

Share Test Artifacts (Print or email)

Assign test cases to external testers

Shared Parameters

Test charts – for both test case and results

Create multiple dashboards

Customize the dashboard contents

Explore dashboard widgets

Customizable chart colors

Longer trend settings

Sorry, VSO Only right now.

But TFS 2015 will have it soon!

Team Project Rename!

There’s a reason it took 10 years :-P

Don’t get too excited, I already revoked that token

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/release-archive-vso.aspx

Ask for it! They really listen

https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/

Team Foundation Server Building Extravaganza 2015 with Chris Kadel

Things like continuous integration and automated build are pretty ubiquitous in the

industry today. Microsoft has changed the build system significantly in TFS 2015 and in

this talk, we intend to take a journey through the changes and how to get the most value

from the system. We'll spend time getting to understand the theory of Continuous

Integration, as it pertains to value delivery and Dev-Ops.

A Look at Team Foundation Server 2015 Build vNext with Paul Hacker

Team Foundation Server (TFS) has a powerful build system for years. Nevertheless, the

next version of TFS will introduce a completely new system. Wondering what this is about

and why (again) belongs to something new to you? Join us to explore the next generation

of TFS build system and learn more about the background, the technical implementation

and the benefits (eg, Cross-Platform builds).

SpecFlow for Agile Teams with Alejandro Ramirez

Acceptance Test-Driven Development is a test methodology that picks up where Unit Testing

ends and can be leveraged to make testing a collaborative effort for the entire agile team.

We’ll look at the setup, syntax, the roles of each agile team member in making it work and

also at some strategies for using SpecFlow in a project.

Agile Metrics that Matter with Clint Edmonson

When it comes to development methods, lean and agile have clearly taken the lead. In the

spirit of Kaizen, this session will take a look at the measures we can glean from agile teams,

why the are relevant and interesting, and how we can use them to help our teams get even

better.

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