Professional Scrum With Team Foundation Server 2010

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Focusing on both, process and results, this professional guide offers a practical approach to running agile software projects using Visual Studio's project management templates and tools. You'll first get a thorough overview of the interaction between traditional, scrum-based agile development techniques and the Microsoft Soutions Framework, before drilling down into the detail. The book covers tools, best practices, key templates, key data, team and process models, necessary tracking assets-and a host of other project challenges, such as project communication, organization, and budgets. Speacial Features Timely: First book that shows how to use Microsoft Team Foundation Server and related tools for agile project management with Scrum. Authoritative: Written by a team of Scrum and Team Foundation Server experts. Practical: More than just a tutorial on agile tools, this book teaches proven best practices for delivering great software----reliably, and on time. Market-Driven: Agile development with Scrum has become the primary methodology for running software projects.

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Steve Resnick is a Founder and Managing Director of BlueMetal Architects, a consulting and product development firm specializing in the architecture, design and delivery of complex systems. BlueMetalArchitects uses Agile methods to consistently deliver projects on time and on budget. Prior to BlueMetal Architects, Steve was the Chief Technology Officer at the Microsoft Technology Centers, where he was responsible for organizing distributed teams to develop and deploy solutions in over 22 centers around the world. Aaron Bjork is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft working on Team Foundation Server. He is responsible for the out of the box process templates (including the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template discussed in this book), reporting solutions, and Agile experiences in the product. Prior to joining Team Foundation Server, Aaron worked as a software engineer and development lead in Visual Studio. Aaron is passionate about Application Lifecycle Management solutions and has a strong desire to see teams improve their software engineering practices. Michael de la Maza is an agile coach and trainer, and is the Agile Practice Lead at Knowledge United. He has developed the nineteen-course KnowAgile curriculum which is taught throughout the country. Through Dynamics Research, he is a member of Microsoft's Inner Circle. Prior to becoming an agile coach, Michael was VP of Corporate Strategy at Softricity (acquired by Microsoft), co-founded Answerfriend (now Inquira), and was a member of the technicalstaff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT. Table of Contents Foreword. Introduction. Chapter 1: Shipping Software. Chapter 2: Organizing A Scrum Team. Chapter 3: Tracking What'S Important In Team Foundation Server. Chapter 4: Getting Started With The Tfs Scrum Template. Chapter 5: Work Items, Queries, And Reports. Chapter 6: The Product Backlog. Chapter 7: Tracking Quality. Chapter 8: Running A Release. Chapter 9: Running A Sprint. Chapter 10: The Retrospective. Chapter 11: Improving Scrum By Using Spikes. Appendix A: Working With Scrum Assessments. Appendix B: References. Index.