DEV467 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Using Visual Studio 2005 Team System to Support Your Agile Processes Randy Miller Program Manager Microsoft Solutions Framework Microsoft Corporation

Agenda A look at Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Customizing the MSF Process Customizing a Lightweight Environment Creating a MSF Process Template Where to Find More Lots of demo action

The Problem with Process Challenges Getting people to know about it Getting people to use it PredictableRepeatable Productive Complex Disconnected Hardened

Deployment Topology Visual Studio Team Foundation

Process Templates in Visual Studio Team System Work Item types Workflow Document templates Reports Project Checklist Groups and permissions Process Guidance

Touring a Team Project

Partner Solutions for MSFv4 WSS-based work and project management solution based on MSFv4 mo%20readonly mo%20readonly Process authoring, tailoring and deployment for VSTS

Agenda A look at Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development Customizing the MSF Process Customizing a Lightweight Environment Creating a MSF Process Template Where to Find More Lots of demo action

MSF as a Family of Processes

MSF for Agile Software Development First agile process that considers the whole software lifecycle and the full software team. Iterative and incremental Scenario-driven Small teams (large projects utilize the team of teams approach) Quality of Service requirements Risks Utilizes a context-driven testing approach (based on test metric thresholds)

MSF for CMMI Process Improvement First agile CMMI process Help organizations operate at Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) level 3, a standard defined by the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Elaborates on the MSF for Agile Software Development process More work items Extensive reporting Does not replace process improvement infrastructure

MSF for Agile Software Development

Agenda A Look at Visual Studio Team System MSF for Agile Software Development Customizing the MSF Process Customizing a Lightweight Environment Creating a MSF Process Template Where to Find More

About Osellus Leading Process Automation Solution Provider Head Office Toronto – Offices in California, Bangkok Microsoft VSIP Premier Partner IRIS-VSTS Interface Products (IRIS Suite) IRIS Process Author (Process Tailoring) IRIS Process Live (Process Enactment) IRIS Process Metrics (Process Monitoring & Metrics) IRIS-on-Demand (MSF Tailoring Online Service) new Supports All Methodologies (MSF, RUP, PM-BOK, etc.) All Frameworks (CMMI, ITIL, etc.) Services Process Consulting Practice

IRIS Process Author Sammy Wahab Osellus

The Need for Processes Tailoring IRIS Process Author Process Tailoring, Publishing & VSTS Process Templates

Solution Process Author Standard Processes WWWPDF VSTS Process Template (XML) Tailored Processes Practitioner IRIS Process Author Visual Studio 2005 Team System Commercial SDLC Methodologies (MSF, 3 rd Party) Internal Best Practices Process Improvement Frameworks (CMMI, ISO, PM-BOK) Project level guidance Publish AuthorTailor Process level guidance

Customizing MSF

IRIS-on-Demand for MSF

Add, Edit, Delete Elements (Activities, Roles, Work Product, etc.) Import Elements from other Packages for Re-use & Abstraction)

Attach External Documents, Templates, Checklist in various format

Create sophisticated workflows

Print or Publish the processes Validate the Tailored Processes Extend MSF

Customized MSF 3.1

Customized RUP The system analyst role leads and coordinates requirements elicitation and use-case modeling by outlining the system's functionality and delimiting the system; for example, establishing what actors and use cases exist, and how they interact.

Customized Methodology in VSTS Rich Process Guidance Customized Work Item Type

Customizing MSF

Agenda A Look at Visual Studio Team System MSF for Agile Software Development Customizing the MSF Process Customizing a Lightweight Environment Creating a MSF Process Template Where to Find More

Company Overview Company Overview BrightWork builds solutions and tools that extends Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) for work and project management Founded in 1996 Offices in U.S. (Boston and Seattle) and Europe (Galway, IRL) Partners in U.S. and Europe Microsoft relationships [1998] A Lotus Premium Partner – recruited to be a Microsoft partner!! [1998] Exchange 2000, [2000] SharePoint 2001 and [2002] SharePoint 2003 JDP (Joint Development Program) participant [2001] Member Microsoft Portal and Collaboration PAC (Partner Advisory Council) [2003] Member Microsoft SharePoint DAC (Developer Advisory Council) [2003] Participant Visual Studio Team System 2005 TAP (Technology Adoption Program) [2001 to now!] Microsoft is one of our largest customers

Customizing and Implementing MSF for Agile Software Development on the SharePoint platform with BrightWork Eamonn McGuinness, BrightWork

SharePoint and VSTS as Solutions for MSF adoption / implementation VSTS for your engineering group SharePoint solution for everyone else

Customizing and Implementing MSF for Agile Software Development using SharePoint

Agenda A Look at Visual Studio Team System MSF for Agile Software Development Customizing the MSF Process Customizing a Lightweight Environment Creating a MSF Process Template Where to Find More

Our New Project

MSF Core Activity Query Report Iteration Role performs Process Guidance Prescribes VSTS Enacts Key: Work Product User owns Work Item tracks Work Stream sequences Security Group belongs to permissions schedules groups reports Iteration schedules produces & consumes

Changing MSF

Agenda A Look at Visual Studio Team System MSF for Agile Software Development Customizing the MSF Process Customizing a Lightweight Environment Creating a MSF Process Template Where to Find More

Cognizant FDD on VS Team System Agile, Iterative process targeted at business application development New roles and work items fine tuned for SIs Feature as the core work item Granular Feature-based project tracking Built on top of MSF Meta model

Most Importantly MSF for Agile Software Development is now available in our Beta Release Visit Hands-On Lab and Dev Cabana #6 The latest updates are available at: em/ workshop/msfagile/default.aspx em/ workshop/msfagile/default.aspx Coming Soon: Addison Wesley series on MSF

MSF v4 – Links and References MSF in the news 09VSTeamSystemPR.asp 09VSTeamSystemPR.asp Id= &printableArticle=true Id= &printableArticle=true MSFv4 Whitepaper us/dnvsent/html/vsts-msf.asp us/dnvsent/html/vsts-msf.asp Analyst Reports Forrester on MSFv4 html html htmlArticles Randy Miller’s whitepaper titled ‘An Integrated approach to Agile or Formal Software Development Process’ Sam Guckenheimer’s whitepaper titled ‘As simple as possible but no simpler’

Broad Industry Support

Session Summary MSF - Methodology per Project MSF - Solid industry and partner support MSF in Team System comes in two flavors to deliver maximum flexibility MSF updates will be delivered through MSDN MSF - basis for your software development process

Special Thanks Eamonn McGuinness Booth Sammy Wahab Booth

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