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2. Strategies for Adopting Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
Tech·Ed  North America 2009
1/17/2019 6:01 PM
Strategies for Adopting Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
Jeff Levinson
ALM Practice Lead
Northwest Cadence
Session Code: DTL202
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3. Who Is Driving Change? And Why?
Tools not meeting needs
Project management
Change management
Quality issues
Traceability
Business Value
Strategic Goals
Better Predictability
Better Visibility
Regulatory Issues

4. What Does Team Foundation Server Offer?
Robust version control
Process integration
Work tracking
Project management integration
Advanced Reporting
Automated build engine
Easy extensibility

5. Rules of Thumb Have a long-term plan in mind, but…
work from short term goals and
make incremental changes
Be prepared to make corrections
Sooner the mistake is admitted, the less damage will be done
Don’t implement processes “because”
This is the number one guaranteed way to fail
Make sure the changes are measurable
Management always wants concrete results and so do you…

6. Where to Start? Version Control Work Items Automated Builds
STOP. TAKE STOCK. CHANGE AS NEEDED.
Work Items
With a very basic process…
…and reports
Automated Builds
Increment the process

7. Strategies – Version Control
Move history?
If you don’t have to, don’t
Keep an online backup of the legacy system
Remove all permissions except “Read”
Branching?
The tool makes a difference here
Design a strategy
Don’t use both tools at once
If you can avoid it

8. Strategies – Version Control (cont.)
Implement version control policies
Install the power tools on every dev’s machine
Code Comments
Associate with Work Items
Additional policies as capability increases
Tests
Code Analysis
Custom Path

9. demo
Version Control

10. Strategies - Work Items
Start small
Grow usage as the team matures
Use reports to determine compliance
Remaining Work report first
Guidance:
Don’t inject complex processes
Use Title, state, description
Use Requirement/Scenario and Task to start with
Using MS Project? Take into account resources

11. Strategies - Reporting
Reporting is for improving the process
Don’t use reports for performance metrics
Reports guide the process
Reports take a couple of months to provide useful information
Manage reports actively
Start with the Remaining Work report
Start simple
Customize reports through Excel
The data warehouse provides great data

12. demo
Work Items & Reports

13. Strategies - Automated Builds
Fastest way to improve quality
Find and fix integration bugs quickly
No more “it works on my machine”
Combined with unit testing provides quality indicators
Enable CI, Nightly, Weekly and Promotion builds
Also generates manifests for each build

14. demo
Automated Builds

15. question & answer

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