Agile Project Management in Team Foundation Server 11

Version: 1.2.0

Description

In this lab, you'll learn how Team Foundation Server 11 can help you quickly plan, manage, and track work across your entire team. You'll explore the new product backlog, sprint backlog, and taskboards which can be used to track the flow of work during the course of an iteration.

Overview

In this lab, you’ll learn how Team Foundation Server 11 can help you quickly plan, manage, and track work across your entire team. You’ll explore the new product backlog, sprint backlog, and taskboards which can be used to track the flow of work during the course of an iteration.

Prerequisites

In order to complete this lab you will need the Visual Studio 11 virtual machine provided by Microsoft. For more information on acquiring and using this virtual machine, please see this blog post.

About the Fabrikam Fiber Scenario

This set of hands-on-labs uses a fictional company, Fabrikam Fiber, as a backdrop to the scenarios you are learning about. Fabrikam Fiber provides cable television and related services to the United States. They are growing rapidly and have embraced Windows Azure to scale their customer-facing web site directly to end-users to allow them to self-service tickets and track technicians. They also use an on-premises ASP.NET MVC application for their customer service representatives to administer customer orders.

In this set of hands-on labs, you will take part in a number of scenarios that involve the development and testing team at Fabrikam Fiber. The team, which consists of 8-10 people, has decided to use Visual Studio application lifecycle management tools to manage their source code, run their builds, test their web sites, and plan and track the project.

Exercises

This hands-on lab includes the following exercises:

  1. Product Backlog and Sprints
  2. Taskboard

Estimated time to complete this lab: 60 minutes.