ALM with TFS 2012 Fundamentals

Pluralsight

Course Summary

This course provides an overview of Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) stack, then drills in on how to use Team Foundation Server (TFS) to support your team's use of ALM best practices.

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Course Description

Team Foundation Server (TFS) is more than just version control! This course provides an overview of the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tooling that's available using Team Foundation Server 2012. We'll start with version control and move on to cover TFS builds, project planning and project management using TFS Work Items. Along the way, we'll also discuss the features of TFS Source Control including branching and merging and also how to customize TFS's work items and automated build features. This course covers the following PMBOK® Process Groups: Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling. This course covers the following PMBOK® Knowledge Areas: Project Scope Management, Project Time Management, Project Quality Management, Project Human Resource Management, Project Communications Management.

Course Description

Team Foundation Server (TFS) is more than just version control! This course provides an overview of the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tooling that's available using Team Foundation Server 2012. We'll start with version control and move on to cover TFS builds, project planning and project management using TFS Work Items. Along the way, we'll also discuss the features of TFS Source Control including branching and merging and also how to customize TFS's work items and automated build features. This course covers the following PMBOK® Process Groups: Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling. This course covers the following PMBOK® Knowledge Areas: Project Scope Management, Project Time Management, Project Quality Management, Project Human Resource Management, Project Communications Management.

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Course Syllabus

Microsoft ALM Overview
- 47m 59s

—Introduction 0m 50s
—If you learn only one thing... 1m 1s
—What is ALM? 4m 17s
—TFS can help 3m 18s
—TFS and ALM...not just for small teams 2m 30s
—The Big Picture and TFS 0m 54s
—Team Foundation Server 1m 43s
—Connect to TFS 3m 53s
—Version Control 4m 21s
—Requirements Management 3m 20s
—Agile Planning 3m 42s
—Automated Build 3m 15s
—Testing and Defect Tracking 3m 34s
—Feedback 3m 20s
—Lab Management 5m 6s
—Reporting 2m 22s
—Outro 0m 33s

Basic Setup and Configuration
- 49m 39s

—Introduction 0m 38s
—The core pieces of TFS 3m 43s
—Other pieces of TFS 3m 41s
—Things that bolt on to TFS 2m 39s
—TFS configurations 2m 51s
—TFS on Windows Azure 1m 9s
—Fancy TFS configurations 2m 7s
—TFS hardware capacity planning 7m 10s
—TFS pre-requisites 2m 2s
—Installing TFS 2m 20s
—Team Project Team Project Collections 3m 6s
—Process Templates 0m 50s
—Demo: Create a Team Project 5m 7s
—Permissions and Security 1m 10s
—Demo: Tour of TFS permissions 3m 27s
—Demo: The TFS Administration Console 3m 54s
—A simple TFS backup plan 3m 13s
—Outro 0m 32s

Version Control Basics
- 28m 17s

—Introduction 2m 2s
—TFS Version Control 2m 44s
—How to access TFS Version Control 2m 44s
—Demo: My First 'Get Latest' 3m 45s
—TFS Workspaces 1m 29s
—Demo: The TFS Workspace Editor 2m 48s
—Server vs. Local Workspaces 2m 43s
—Configure a new project 1m 9s
—Demo: Set up the repository and add code 5m 10s
—Keep it simple. 2m 10s
—Version control operations 1m 12s
—Outro 0m 21s

Version Control Beyond The Basics
- 38m 5s

—Introduction 1m 16s
—Demo: Offline features 4m 13s
—Free yourself from the read-only bit 1m 15s
—Demo: Detected changes and associated work items 4m 18s
—Version control locks 2m 24s
—Shelving 2m 22s
—Demo: Shelving 3m 8s
—Branching and Merging 2m 14s
—Demo: Branching and Merging 8m 45s
—Demo: Server-side settings 5m 59s
—Demo: Permissions 1m 14s
—Summary 0m 57s

Work Item Basics
- 34m 0s

—Introduction 0m 31s
—What is a work item? 1m 30s
—Ways to edit work items 1m 8s
—Demo: Edit Work Items in Visual Studio 2012 4m 27s
—Demo: Edit Work Items in Excel 4m 1s
—Work Item Types 2m 39s
—Work Item Links 1m 27s
—Demo: Work Item Links 2m 48s
—Stay organized with Areas Iterations 1m 34s
—Demo: Areas and Iterations 4m 33s
—Work Item Queries 1m 15s
—Demo: Work Item Queries 7m 32s
—Summary 0m 35s

Agile and Scrum Planning Tools
- 34m 31s

—Introduction 0m 30s
—Subdivide your project with Teams 2m 0s
—Demo: Create a Team 5m 1s
—Some context about Work Items 0m 46s
—The blindingly fast overview of Scrum and Agile 2m 56s
—The Scrum / Agile Planning Tools 5m 57s
—Demo: Product Backlog Manager 4m 38s
—Demo: Sprint Planning 6m 46s
—Demo: Scrum Board 3m 11s
—Demo: The Burndown Chart 2m 11s
—Summary 0m 35s

Work Item Customization
- 33m 49s

—Introduction 0m 36s
—Work Item Customization 2m 3s
—WitAdmin.exe 0m 58s
—Backup your process template 1m 17s
—Demo: Backup your process template 2m 24s
—Two ways to customize 0m 55s
—Structure of a WITD 1m 33s
—Work Item Fields 3m 38s
—Work Item States and Transitions 3m 27s
—Work Item Form 1m 0s
—Demo: Customize the WITD 8m 19s
—Demo: Upload the changes to TFS 5m 23s
—Demo: Add the customization to Source Control 1m 31s
—Summary 0m 45s

Automated Build Basics
- 30m 13s

—Introduction 0m 18s
—Why automated builds? 3m 53s
—Installing and Planning TFS Build 10m 15s
—Demo: Install the build service 3m 11s
—Demo: Create a build definition 6m 59s
—Demo: Run the build 5m 18s
—Summary 0m 19s

Automated Builds Beyond The Basics
- 37m 44s

—Introduction 0m 35s
—Demo: Gated Check-in Builds 10m 5s
—Build customization 3m 54s
—Demo: Clone the default build 2m 11s
—Demo: Add the build to the build editor project 3m 24s
—Demo: Using 3rd Party Build Activities 12m 2s
—Demo: Add an argument to the build script 4m 39s
—Summary 0m 54s

Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

This course is listed under Data Centre Management , Development & Implementations , Networks & IT Infrastructure , Project & Service Management , Quality Assurance & Testing and Server & Storage Management Community

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Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

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ALM with TFS 2012 Fundamentals

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Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Scrum

Agile

Visual Studio

Testing

Capacity planning

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