TFS 2010 Whats new and interesting Key Items

TFS 2010 What’s new and interesting

Key Items n n n n Agile Planning Tools – Slides #3 -#6 Improved parallel development - Slides #7 -#8 Continuous Integration ++ – Slide #9 Architectural validation integration with build –Slide #10 Team Build enhanced – Slides #11 -#12 Hierarchical Work Items, easier Project Management – Slide #13 Easy TFS Manageability – Slide #14 Explore more… - Slide #15

Agile planning tools n n n Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 introduces new features and capabilities to help agile teams with planning Agile teams opt for multiple levels of planning with course corrections over a waterfall-style plan Support for Agile type of planning 1. High-level user stories from ¨ VSTS 2010 introduces two new Excel workbooks for Release planning and the product backlog are reviewed and are broken down in to smaller user stories Iteration planning 2. These user stories and associated tasks are then estimated in hours. 1. Broad set of features or User stories 2. A list of requirements desired by customers in an application ¨ These excel based planning work books are closely integrated with TFS – Product backlog and iteration backlog synchronized to automatically capture the status of a user story or a task work item

Agile workbooks n Product Backlog workbook - Primarily serves as a list of requirements desired by customers in an application n Iteration Backlog workbook

Capacity planning n Capacity planning spreadsheet - specify the date range for iterations, the number of team members, and any interruptions during the iteration, such as holidays. This data, combined with the user story estimates and velocity, creates a chart that gives a sense of what the iteration work load looks like n Velocity calculation - amount of work being completed by the team in an iteration & capacity planning spreadsheet can pull the historical data from the TFS data warehouse n More reports like Burndown and Velocity, Remaining Work, and Stories Progress come with Agile template

Integrated view n Product backlog worksheet ¨ n Team tab Work Items group ¨ Configure List

Parallel Development n Visualize branch relationships Folders and branches have a different appearance and different capabilities Hierarchy of a Team project

Tracking Change. Sets/Merges Track Change. Sets across branches Track Merge timelines

Continuous Integration ++ n Gated Check-In n Bring more stability to the build process ¨ Be proactive – don’t let a build to fail. . Stop that change before it breaks the system ¨ Reduce code change roll backs A mechanism to validate developer changes on a clean box with TIP version Take the latest code available, take developer changes, compile on a central build server If successful -> Check-In the change If not -> reject the change [optionally, can create bug WI to track that to closure] ¨ n n n

Architectural validation on every build Generated dependencies Specify the layers of Architecture Map Physical implementation to Logical architecture [drag the actual class implementations into the corresponding layer] Generate dependencies Make corrections Validation Validate Architecture Integrate this with every build. . Get physical and logical in sync, enforce that through automation

Team Build Architecture enhanced ü New architecture supports improved Build machine utilization ü Reduce number of build machines/project and build machine maintenance ü Each project collection is associated with a Build Controller ü Build Controller to manage the builds, build agents and load balance

Improved Build summary - Customizable WPF reports 1. Last 9 build status of the same build definition 2. Small triangle denotes current build 3. Height shows time taken for each build 4. Color shows the result 5. Hover each bar and get more information…

Hierarchical Work Items n n Great enhancement towards task decomposition - breaking high level tasks down into sub-tasks and those down into further sub-tasks, etc Integration with Excel & MS Project

Easy maintenance TFS logs integrated Manage Team Build settings Change all App tier settings at 1 place

Explore more… References to explore all 2010 features n n n Architecture (http: //blogs. msdn. com/camerons/) Development & Database (http: //blogs. msdn. com/habibh/) Lab Management (http: //blogs. msdn. com/amit_chatterjee, http: //blogs. msdn. com/lab_management) Test (http: //blogs. msdn. com/amit_chatterjee, http: //blogs. msdn. com/james_whittaker) TFS (http: //blogs. msdn. com/bharry)