ALM with TFS: From the Drawing Board to the Cloud

Your Cloud.Your Business.

From Drawing Board to Cloud with TFS

OUR MISSION, VISION & VALUES

TODAY’S AGENDA

1. ALM and Agile What do they mean and why do we care?

2. Why TFS It’s not just about source code anymore!

3. Stakeholders Requirements and project management.

4. Developers Development, QA, testing, and deployment.

5. Questions How can we help you take advantage of TFS?

Overview – Application Lifecycle Management• The product lifecycle of delivering software applications

• Addresses governance, development and maintenance

Specs

Priorities

DevQA

Deploy

Overview – Application Lifecycle Management

ALM

IT

SDLSDLC

Overview – Agile Methodology

• Flexibility• 2001 “The Agile Manifesto”• Teams and Interactions over Process and Tools• Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation• Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation• Responding to Change over Following “The Plan.” • DevOps – integration between development process and operations, i.e.

your Hybrid IT• Further Reading: 10-Year Retrospective and Keys for Success http

://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh350860(v=vs.100).aspx

Waterfall

Long Design Phase

Development Black Box

Mad Bug Scramble

Oops! Business/Technolog

y Changed

Agile

Prioritize

Sprint Plan

Develop and Test

Review

Release

Sprint Plan

Develop and Test

Review

Release

Prioritize

Iteration 1 Iteration 2

Agile vs. Waterfall (the promise)Waterfall To Agile ResultProcess and Tools Individuals and

InteractionsQA is part of the team and not just a hand-off, participates in estimation

Comprehensive Documentation

Working Software Get to market faster (and get feedback from market quickly)

Contract Negotiation Customer Collaboration Deliver software closer to what you want, not what you wanted

Following a Plan Responding to Change Move from delayed software releases to delayed feature releases

Agile vs. Waterfall (the reality)

Agile Assertion Reality ResultIndividuals and Interactions over Process and Tools

Process is tough to change, existing investments in tools

Pragmatic approach: use existing processes but subject them to change

Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation

Stakeholders want their documentation

Compromise and generate docs from software and requirements

Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation

Often business requires a fixed schedule and has a limited budget

Use prioritization to deliver best possible software by deadline in budget

Responding to Change over Following a Plan

Stakeholders need to know major milestones and risks

Provide real-time updates from the process and share updated plan

Team Foundation Server for ALM

• Bridge between Waterfall and Agile• Not Just for Source Control!• Business Analyists → Requirements Management• Project and Product Managers → Backlog Management, Burn Down,

Velocity• QA → Test Suite, Test Cases, Automated Test Execution• Developers → Code, Branching, Merging and COLLABORATION• Extensibility and integration with APIs and Adapters• On premise • In the cloud

Go from this …

Requirements App

Build System

Source Control

Defect Tracking

I can’t remember 5 logins!!!

Visual Studio IDE

… to this

Everything in one place, in the cloud

“How We Build Software at Microsoft”• http://stories.visualstudio.com/ • 3 Years to 3 Weeks• Code is written and tested daily • QA in Sprint to Ship Complete• Measure Results and Feature Consumption• Scales Across Hundreds of Developers• Sprint Review Rollup

Requirements Management

• EPIC!• … to Features• … to User Stories with Test Cases and Acceptance Criteria• … to Tasks• … “Anyway you want it, that’s the way you need it”• Generate the Word Document FROM the Requirements, Not the Other Way

Around• Storyboard Right from PowerPoint (with TFS Synchronization)• Groom the Backlog Online• Synchronize and Update from Excel

Demo: Requirements Mgmt.

Project and Product Management• Backlog prioritization• Sprint planning• Burn down reporting• Defect Tracking • Full Kanban visibility with as many or as few swim lanes as you care for

Demo: Product Management

Development

• Visual Studio and Eclipse• Love the Command Line? So Does TFS!• Got git? Can do that, too.• Code Review Workflow• Collaborative Team Rooms with Notifications• Continuous Integration with Gated Check-in• Pick Your Testing Framework (NUnit? Jasmine?)

Development: Code Review

Source: MSDN

Development: Code Review

Source: MSDN

Development: Team Chat

Source: MSDN

Build and Deployment• Multiple Build Configurations• Multiple Build Servers• Extensible Build Configuration • Script Database Deployment and Updates• Install and configure Windows Services• Transformations to Update .config Based on Environment• Notifications, Escalations, Auto-Tagging• Build from Branches

Demo: Developer Experience

Quality Assurance

• Test Suite and Test Case Management• Lab Management• Automated Bug Integration, Submission• Video and Screenshot Attachments• IntelliTrace™ - Debug Backwards in Time!• “I Can’t Reproduce This”

QA: Test Manager

Source: MSDN

QA: Test Manager

Source: MSDN

Dashboards

• Customizable: Project, Team, YOU• Over Status and Key Statistics• Plug-in Report Parts (On-Premise Only)• Drill-Down to Key Areas• Custom Queries and Metrics • Snapshot for Daily Meetings

Demo: Dashboards

A Quick Note: Licensing

• Pro – test frameworks, integration and unit tests• Test Pro – manual testing, exploratory testing, test case management, and “fast-forward” in

manual testing• Premium – Microsoft Fakes, Code Coverage, Coded UI• Ultimate – Web Load and Performance• Everything but Pro gives you Lab Management• Visual Studio Online – MSDN Subscriptions can secure seats (Test Pro, Premium, and

Ultimate at same level) • FREE Stakeholders for VSO – view team and project dashboards, backlogs, task boards,

create and edit work items• http://

www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-online-user-plans-vs#AdditionalPageSections_1

How Can iVision Help?• ALM Health Check – review of your TFS installation, source control, solution

and project strategy, build configuration, and requirements management.• ALM Migration – get rid of upgrade and maintenance headaches by migrating

your on-premise TFS to Visual Studio Online.• ALM Training – learn how to leverage all of the productivity boosting features

of TFS. • Consumption Reporting – Application Insights give you immediate customer

feedback. Don’t prioritize based on what you’ve developed; instead prioritize based on what your customers consume!

• Custom Application Development – modernize and/or migrate existing applications and develop new for desktop, mobile, cloud and beyond.

Questions?

Jeremy Likness, Principal Architect [email protected]

Our Approach and Strategy