1. DELIVERON CONSULTING SERVICES Getting Agile with Team Foundation Server 2010

2. About Mike Douglas  Solution Consultant at Deliveron Consulting Services  Previously Lead Developer at FCSAmerica  Presentations  Multiple OMTG (.NET and OTSUG)  Heartland Developer Conference 2009  http://TeamDeploy.CodePlex.com http://TeamDeploy.CodePlex.com  http://www.CodeSmartNotHard.com http://www.CodeSmartNotHard.com  www.twitter.com/mikedouglasdev www.twitter.com/mikedouglasdev

3. Deliveron Consulting Services  Microsoft Certified Gold Partner  Custom.NET Application Development  BizTalk, SharePoint, SQL Server, and TS/TFS  Team System and TFS Jumpstart  SharePoint Jumpstart

4. Agenda  Quick Overview of Agile/Scrum  Agile and TFS  Iteration  Project Planning  Iteration Planning  Running an Iteration  End of an Iteration

5. Agile/Scrum  User Story  As a, I want to so that < business reason.  Story Points  Fibonacci  Points relative to other stories, not a measure of time.  Iteration  Fixed period of time (usually 2 to 3 weeks) that a number of stories are agreed to be completed  Velocity  Average story points completed each iteration  Used to measure work done and determine the “burndown”

6. Agile / Scrum Iteration BacklogProduct BacklogTasks Story Points Priority

7. Agile/Scrum  Product Burndown

8. Agile/Scrum  Some Benefits  Customer Collaboration (Business and Project Team Co- Locate)  Pick features or pick date  Release more often  Features most important are worked first.

9. Agile and TFS  Agile Options with TFS  2008 MSF for Agile eScrum – decommissioned Conchango Scrum  2010 MSF for Agile 5 Conchango – Scrum for Team System V3.0 Beta 1

10. Agile and TFS  Agile Improvements in VSTS 2010  Better Terminology with artifacts User Stories, Story Points, Velocity  Hierarchical Work Items  Dashboards and Planning Workbooks  Excel Workbooks Iteration and Product backlog  New Reports  Test Lab  No Visual Task Board

11. Demos  All Demos are using TFS and VSTS 2010 Beta 2  Things are subject to change  Many improvements and fixes over Beta 1  DEMO: Product Backlog Planning  DEMO: Iteration Planning  DEMO: Gated Check-in  DEMO: Development / TDD  DEMO: Tracking Progress  DEMO: Retrospective

12. Links  Email: MikeDouglas ** at ** Deliveron.comMikeDouglas ** at ** Deliveron.com  Mike Douglas’ Blog on TFS, CSLA.NET, and Code Generation http://www.codesmartnothard.com/ http://www.codesmartnothard.com/  Deliveron Consulting Services  http://www.deliveron.com http://www.deliveron.com  Conchango Scrum Template (free)  http://www.scrumforteamsystem.com http://www.scrumforteamsystem.com