1. Scrum Experience Group Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Marcato / Kardia Health Systems
April 27, 2010

2. Overview of Case Study Kardia Health Systems Marcato
Medical software company startup
Roughly 10 active users (developers, testers, product owners)
Team members in MN, CO, TX, and Belarus
Important to get and maintain FDA 510k compliance
Marcato
Agile coaching, offshore development

3. Why TFS? Kardia already owned the Visual Studio development tools
Cross platform development work (.NET, Java) with integration to both Visual Studio and Eclipse
Full traceability from story to test result needed to satisfy FDA 510k certification requirements
Kardia management team experienced with Agile
Scrum For Team System template available for free
Process guidance already documented
Complete Application Lifecycle Management “out of the box” – few add-ins or integration problems
Integrated Windows security / group management

4. Screenshot of IDE

5. Deployment
Team Foundation Server 2008 / SQL Server 2008 / Windows Server 2003
Single central instance deployed in data center in Houston, TX
“Vanilla” installation
added a “Customer Requesting” field
TFS server also our build server – replaced Cruise Control on separate build server
Web-based portal similar to IDE also available
Using Teamprise Build Extensions to integrate Java ANT build
Took roughly a day to bring online

6. Features We Use Source code control
Continuous integration – each checking fires off a build, build server built in
Links between Product Backlog Items, Sprint Backlog Items, Test Cases, and Test Results provide end-to-end traceability
Defect management
Team project portal
Easy to build individual and team queries
Uses SQL Reporting Services for reporting

7. Observations Terminology differences complicate training
Product Backlog Item (instead of Story or Feature)
Sprint Backlog Item (instead of Task)
Searching capabilities limited in IDE
Building Windows Installer Setup projects in TFS Build more complicated than expected
Integrating Java/ANT build using Teamprise Build Extensions
No graphical storyboard
Significant feature improvements for testing in TFS 2010
Integrated automated testing tool
Worth investigating before deploying

8. Questions?
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