TFS 2010

What’s new and interesting

Key Items

Agile Planning Tools – Slides #3-#6

Improved parallel development - Slides #7-#8

Continuous Integration ++ – Slide #9

Architectural validation integration with build –Slide #10

Team Build enhanced – Slides #11-#12

Hierarchical Work Items, easier Project Management – Slide #13

Easy TFS Manageability – Slide #14

Explore more… - Slide #15

Agile planning tools Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 introduces new features and capabilities to help agile teams with planning Agile teams opt for multiple levels of planning with course corrections over a waterfall-style plan Support for Agile type of planning

VSTS 2010 introduces two new Excel workbooks for Release planning and Iteration planning

These excel based planning work books are closely integrated with TFS – Product backlog and iteration backlog synchronized to automatically capture the status of a user story or a task work item

1. Broad set of features or User stories2. A list of requirements desired by customers in an application

1. High-level user stories from the product backlog are reviewed and are broken down in to smaller user stories2. These user stories and associated tasks are then estimated in hours.

Agile workbooks Product Backlog workbook - Primarily serves as a list of requirements desired by customers in an application

Iteration Backlog workbook

Capacity planning

Capacity planning spreadsheet - specify the date range for iterations, the number of team members, and any interruptions

during the iteration, such as holidays. This data, combined with the user story estimates and velocity, creates a chart that

gives a sense of what the iteration work load looks like

Velocity calculation - amount of work being completed by the team in an iteration & capacity planning spreadsheet can pull

the historical data from the TFS data warehouse

More reports like Burndown and Velocity, Remaining Work, and Stories Progress come with Agile template

Integrated view Product backlog worksheet

Team tab Work Items group

Configure List

Parallel Development

Visualize branch relationshipsFolders and branches have a different appearance and different capabilities

Hierarchy of a Team project

Tracking ChangeSets/Merges

Track Mergetimelines

Track ChangeSets across branches

Continuous Integration ++

Gated Check-In Bring more stability to the build process Be proactive – don’t let a build to fail.. Stop that change before it breaks the system Reduce code change roll backs

A mechanism to validate developer changes on a clean box with TIP version Take the latest code available, take developer changes, compile on a central build server If successful -> Check-In the change If not -> reject the change [optionally, can create bug WI to track that to closure]

Architectural validation on every build

Specify the layers of Architecture

Map Physical implementation to Logical architecture[drag the actual class implementations into the corresponding layer]

Generate dependencies

Make corrections

Validate Architecture

Integrate this with every build..

Get physical and logical in sync, enforce that through automation

Generated dependencies

Validation

Team Build Architecture enhanced

New architecture supports improved

Build machine utilization

Reduce number of build

machines/project and build machine

maintenance

Each project collection is associated

with a Build Controller

Build Controller to manage the builds,

build agents and load balance

Improved Build summary - Customizable WPF reports

1. Last 9 build status of the same build definition

2. Small triangle denotes current build

3. Height shows time taken for each build

4. Color shows the result5. Hover over each bar and

get more information…

Hierarchical Work Items Great enhancement towards task decomposition - breaking high level tasks down into sub-tasks and those

down into further sub-tasks, etc Integration with Excel & MS Project

Easy maintenance Change all App tier settings at 1 place

TFS logs integrated

Manage Team Build settings

Explore more…

References to explore all 2010 features

Architecture (http://blogs.msdn.com/camerons/) Development & Database (http://blogs.msdn.com/habibh/) Lab Management (http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee, http://blogs.msdn.com/lab_management) Test (http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee, http://blogs.msdn.com/james_whittaker) TFS (http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry)