1. …Turning Ideas Into Software…
Expanding Throughout the Lifecycle and Embracing New Participants
Randy Pagels
Sr. Developer Technical Specialist
Microsoft Corporation

2. vNext Roadmap

3. The Virtuous Cycle the essence of planning, building, and managing software
Storyboarding
Backlog Management
Sprint Planning & Execution
Personalized Productivity
Feedback Client
Intellitrace in Production
SCOM & TFS Integration

4. The Virtuous Cycle the essence of planning, building, and managing software
Storyboarding
• Collaboration through integration across all roles in the team
• Timely and actionable feedback to reduce wasted effort
• Leveraging natural and appropriate tools for the task at hand
• Transparent and agile best practices to be adopted at will
Backlog Management
Sprint Planning & Execution
Personalized Productivity
Feedback Client
Intellitrace in Production
SCOM & TFS Integration

5. vNext Roadmap Storyboarding Backlog Management
Storyboarding using PowerPoint
Management Priorities
Backlog Management
Sprint Planning & Execution
Capacity, Sprint Burn down
Personalized Productivity
Context switching, My Work, Unit Testing Explorer, Code Clone & Review
Team Navigator
Feedback Client
Continuous Stakeholder Feedback
Intellitrace in Production
SCOM & TFS Integration
Intellitrace in Production, SCOM<->TFS Connector

6. Storyboarding

7. StoryBoard Assistant Tool
Tighter loop between the Business Stakeholders and Development Team
Graphical design tools built in PowerPoint
Embed other content including context slides
Capture screen shots and create lightweight animations
Store common elements within a shape library
Create master templates to simplify multiple similar views
Get feedback to others
mail the document
print the document
version control the document
leverage collaborative editing tools
leverage web viewing tools

8. StoryBoard Assistant Tool
Graphical design tools built in PowerPoint
Tighter loop between the Business Stakeholders and Development Team
Store common elements within a shape library
Create master templates to simplify multiple similar views
Get feedback to others
mail the document
print the document
version control the document
leverage collaborative editing tools
leverage web viewing tools
Capture screen shots and create lightweight animations

9. Backlog Management

10. Managing the Product Backlog leverage agile best practices
Velocity progress
Accessed from the Team Project Web Access
Shows a single view of the current backlog of work
Dynamically re-ordered and group
Enable Product Owner to quickly prioritize work and outline dependencies and relationships
Easily drag’n drop to prioritize tasks

11. Sprint Planning & Execution

12. Sprint Planning Tool Capacity & Sprint Burndown
Burndown progress
The enhanced work item management tools in Team Web Access
Tool pre-populates required data
Streamlines the association and update process.
Effectively allocate work balancing load with available capacity
Real-time feedback on the updates to the plan
Team capacity at a glance

13. Task Board in Team Web Access update the status of work items visually
Burndown progress
Easily move tasks around

14. Task Board Burndown

15. Personalized Productivity

16. Team Navigator My Work Allows the developer to easily context switch
Packages all the open work
Save entire environment settings
Fix urgent bugs
Recall task, work is instantly restored in context and error-free.
Resume where the developer left off

17. Unit Testing Runner continuous unit testing execution
Run tests in the background
Never pause and wait for test results
Support for multiple unit testing frameworks
Integrated deeply into the IDE
Support MS Test, xunit, and nunit
Target both .NET and native C++ code
Combined with Test Impact Analysis
most important tests are always
Run first, so failures appear in seconds.

18. Integrated Code Review providing feedback from other team members
Shared knowledge across team
Code reviews can be set as a quality gate
Source changes highlighted and comments about the changes.

19. Integrated Code Review In-line diff viewer
Multiple views
Old code line in Red
New code line in Yellow
Supports in-line comments

20. Code Clone Detection reviews common code blocks exposing refactoring opportunities
Detect code blocks with common structure and approach
Search is semantic, not just literal
Detects both ‘copy and paste’ errors
Detects code fragments with a common logical structure
Review common code and decide how to proceed

21. Feedback Client

22. Client Feedback Tool Exploratory Testing with MTM in vNext
Support for rich text and images
Embedded in the view
Improves fidelity of feedback
Standard fields are pre populated.

23. Scope selected #of actions
Client Feedback Tool
Easily file new bugs
Scope selected #of actions

24. Enhanced Work Item Dialog

25. Exploratory Testing Easily view previous sessions
Create new exploration sessions

26. IntelliTrace in Production

27. IntelliTrace In Production
Series of PowerShell commands
Historical Debugger
Full collection options
View requests and exceptions
Shows all events and calls

28. SCOM & TFS Integration

29. System Center & TFS Integration
Capture application issues in production
Actionable workflow between development and operations
Operations leveraging System Center to pass data to the development team
Integrated IntelliTrace infrastructure used for historical debugging
Fully integrated with TFS work items

30. Summary Storyboarding Backlog Management Sprint Planning & Execution
Storyboarding using PowerPoint
Management Priorities
Backlog Management
Sprint Planning & Execution
Capacity, Sprint Burn down
Personalized Productivity
Context switching, My Work, Unit Testing Explorer, Code Clone & Review
Team Navigator
Feedback Client
Continuous Stakeholder Feedback
Intellitrace in Production
SCOM & TFS Integration
Intellitrace in Production, SCOM<->TFS Connector

31. Resources
Check out the 3 easy ways to come up to speed on vNext announced
SpeakFlow: Follow the lifecycle – from development to operations and back again.
Starting at the “STORYBOARDING” video (at the top) and then following the circle counter-clockwise. Tip: To go up a level after drilling in, use your mouse wheel or the UP key on your keyboard.
Foundational Session: This 60-minute, demo-heavy presentation by Cameron Skinner and Brian Keller will paint a broader picture of our ALM story than we had time for during the keynote.
Whitepaper: Here is a great PDF whitepaper which reinforces the value propositions for what we’re delivering in vNext.