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Introduction to Visual Studio Team System

Posted by Kevin Jones on Dec 13, 2007 03:39 AM

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Qcon London 2007,
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Visual Studio Team System
Summary
The goal of VSTS is to provide a tool that is not prescriptive and highly customizable for managing the software development process. Kevin Jones provides a soup to nuts framework for utilizing VSTS to support a development team and build better applications. He covers project management, source code control, class designers and various designers available to software architects.

Bio
Kevin has developed and delivered training in many areas including C++, MFX COM, Java,.NET. Member of the Servlets, and JavaServer Pages expert group, he has written articles on developing Web applications using Servlets and JSPs.He is the co-author of "Servlets and JavaServer Pages: The J2EE Technology Web Tier" and the co-author of both Developmentors Essential and Guerrilla Team System classes.

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QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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How Would This Work? by Greg Helton Posted Dec 15, 2007 11:31 AM
Re: How Would This Work? by Deborah Hartmann Posted Dec 15, 2007 2:03 PM
Re: How Would This Work? by Jeff Hunsaker Posted Dec 20, 2007 11:37 AM
Re: How Would This Work? by Deborah Hartmann Posted Dec 21, 2007 8:02 AM
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    How Would This Work?

    Dec 15, 2007 11:31 AM by Greg Helton

    Paragraph 3 refers to the "MSF for Agile template" for Scrum. Given that this is Microsft's interpretation of Agile, this is, no doubt, an MS-Word template?

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    Re: How Would This Work?

    Dec 15, 2007 2:03 PM by Deborah Hartmann

    I believe the MSF for Agile "templates" are a set of work items, roles and processes allowing a team to use MS's version of an Agile process. I don't know how closely their Scrum template approximates what's taught in the CSM, though.

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    Re: How Would This Work?

    Dec 20, 2007 11:37 AM by Jeff Hunsaker

    Deborah is accurate with her description of how process templates are implemented within Team System. Process templates FAQ. It's expected that an enterprise will take the OOtB template and assuage it to accommodate the local process. Also, Conchango produces an independent, free SCRUM for Team System process template. This is the only Team System SCRUM template I'm aware of.

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    Re: How Would This Work?

    Dec 21, 2007 8:02 AM by Deborah Hartmann

    Thanks Jeff. Are you familiar with both the Conchango plug-in and the CSM course? Can you tell us how closely they match?

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