Posted by Mark Lawrence on 9 February 2010 | 0 Comments
Team Foundation Server (TFS) is Microsoft’s software Application Lifecycle Management tool. It encompasses a range of ALM functionality through work item tracking, planning tools and reports, as well as providing other functionality in the areas of Configuration Management and team collaboration. The next version of TFS will be released early in 2010.
In this new article in the Resources section of our website, I take a high level look at the value and functionality of key Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 features from a Project Manager's point of view. I'll be posting more here on the Optimation site in future on the features and functionality of TFS from the perspective of the other members of a typical agile project team.
Features I cover in this article include the Work Item Tracking system, one of the central pillars of the TFS ecosystem. This provides a rich set of requirement, task, defect and test case definition and reporting tools. I also consider both out-of-the-box and custom-built project templates; the new-look project SharePoint site and its Project Dashboard; and the Excel templates now provided with TFS for managing project backlog and iteration planning.
Visit our Resources section to download the full article in PDF form.
Microsoft’s Brian Harry has a good overview of the Project Management improvements in TFS 2010 here . I suggest you take the time to read this, since he covers other areas of interest that I don’t go into, such as MS Project integration.
Also, I have my own blog, where I’ve been posting more detailed information on the practical use of TFS 2010 from my own experiences.
Tags:
agile,
application development,
project management
