Real World Software Development Management and Solutions Barry Gervin

Real World Software Development Management and Solutions

Barry Gervin

March 23, 2011

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Barry GervinMicrosoft MVP, Regional DirectorObjectSharp Partner

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Agenda• Insights from our customers adopting TFS• Assessing YOUR Situation• Top 10 Scenarios and how customers have dealt

with them.• Key Themes

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Assessing Your Situation• What are your objectives?• Who is involved?• Are you sure about the big problems?• Why are you considering TFS?

• If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it!

Why?• We need to upgrade VSS, so why not get free defect tracking too?• We want to increase our productivity.• We want to increase our visibility.• I want more visibility into what my developers are doing.• We’re moving to Agile.• We want to get our testers working closer to our developers.

Decision Point #1• The size & scope of a Team Project

Planning Point #1• What is your timeline, roadmap,

expectations?• Be realistic

Scenario #1

“We already have a ticketing system, what should we do with Work Items? “

Scenario #2

“Testers don’t work in our department and they use Quality Centre. How should we deal with that?“

Scenario #3

“We have PowerBuilder, Cold Fusion, Delphi, Java and C# is it worth using TFS?“

Scenario #4“I looked at the two out of the box templates and they don’t fit our process. We need to customize before we start. It looks pretty easy!“

Scenario #5

“Developers are from Mars and Testers are from Venus and they live next door.“

Scenario #6

“I’m having a hard time getting my team to adhere to 100% code coverage.“

Scenario #7

“My project manager keeps asking me to tell him what “percentage” I am complete on my tasks, but I can’t seem to do that in TFS.“

Scenario #8

“I work on 12 projects at the same time how do I calculate my velocity for Project #9?“

Scenario #9

“I’m the BA, Dev, QA and Release Manager so who would I be collaborating with?“

Scenario #10

“I am supposed to check in my code every night but I’m not always done and sometimes it breaks the build.“

Key Themes• Ask yourself “What are my ALM Problems?” and

“Why/How TFS will help solve those?”• Consider a maturity model, roadmap for TFS Adoption

– Source Code– Builds– Unit Tests– Project Data– Requirements– QA Automation/Integration– Lab Management

• Value People over Processes• Value Process over Tools• Don’t let the tools drive your process or people, but be

pragmatic before customization.

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Barry GervinMicrosoft MVP, Regional DirectorObjectSharp Partner

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