Description

Agile project management methods are increasingly adopted by companies. This training will teach you how to optimize the work of your developers, collaborate more effectively and improve the quality of your software with the MS Visual Studio Team Foundation 2013 solution.

Who is this training for ?

Developer, Product Owner, Scrum Master.

Training objectives

Training program

• Introduction to the Agile SCRUM method
  • Why SCRUM? Comparison with traditional project management methods.
  • Advantages and disadvantages of traditional project management methods.
  • The pillars of SCRUM.
  • Classic breakdown of a project.
• The Visual Studio 2013 product line
  • Presentation of Team Foundation Server 2013.
  • Presentation of the different client tools.
  • Technical architecture of the platform.
  • Definition of a project with TFS.
  • Practical work Creation of a team project in TFS 2013.
  • Creation of a "team" in the project and overview of different tools.
• Project management tools with TFS 2013
  • Work items (bugs, tasks, backlog items).
  • Backlog management with the web interface.
  • Planning releases and iterations .
  • Monitoring work with the dashboard in post-it form.
  • Practical work Backlog maintenance and creation of work items.
  • Planning a release.
  • Using post-its.
• Tools for developers
  • Developer workflow overview.
  • Intro to using Team Explorer.
  • Request a code review.
  • Implementation of continuous integration.
  • Practical work Starting a task and modifying code.
  • Creating a review request and simulation exchanges between developers.
  • Setting up a continuous integration build definition.
• Testing an Agile project
  • Setting up unit tests with Visual Studio.
  • Using the Fakes framework.
  • Functional tests and exploratory tests.
  • Facilitate exchanges between the tester and the developer.
  • Management of user feedback.
  • Practical work Creation of a unit test.
  • Creation of 'a simple test plan and execution of an exploratory test.
  • Creation of a rich defect and correction by the developer.
• Monitoring and reporting
  • Creation of custom queries and filters.
  • Presentation of the reporting architecture within TFS 2013.
  • Basic reports available.
  • Creation of a personalized report with Microsoft Excel.
  • Practical work Creation of a report from Microsoft Excel in the form of a pivot table.