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Microsoft VSTS 2010 gets more agile


By David Rubinstein
June 15, 2009 — 
Visual Studio Team System 2010, Microsoft’s collaborative development environment, will introduce features that both align agile methodologies with project management and help developers from a “fingers on the keyboard” perspective.

VSTS 2008 introduced agile templates within Team projects; 2010 uses more of the terminology agile developers are familiar with, including user stories, sprints and the like, according to Doug Seven, senior product manager for VSTS. The templates had already used terms familiar to developers using the Microsoft Solutions Framework for Agile Development. Also with 2010, the templates can now be saved by iteration to the Team Foundation Server (TFS), from which subsets of stories can be pulled down and broken into tasks using a parent/child hierarchy.

Further, 2010 adds SharePoint Server support, so that when a Team project is created, a SharePoint portal for that project is automatically created or an existing portal is pointed to, Seven explained. The SharePoint dashboard, linked to the TFS installation, pulls in data to create a landing point for all information associated with the project. The reporting within VSTS 2010 now uses more descriptive text, with burn-down and velocity reports presented in formats agile developers are used to. For project management, the planning worksheets, product backlog lists and more all are based in Excel for ease and familiarity, he said.

“The idea behind agile is to make it attractive by delivering value iteratively,” Seven said. “It’s less about checking things off a list. There’s a learning curve and challenges with any new process or tool sets. We want to give tooling that is intuitive and supports developers. We are paying attention to the agile community.”


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01/06/2010 07:22:01 PM EST

As a Agile / Scrum coach and trainer I do agree with the statement that Team System 2010 can be more agile. You won't get there by just using one of the Agile or Scrum process templates because Agile is more than just the process. Teams must communicate and write good, clean code that can be deployed quickly. The team must use a test-first approach and automated tests. To learn more see our site and new course: http://www.effectiveagiledev.com/AgileTraining/ScrumAgileDevelopmentforTeamswithMSVSTFS/tabid/58/Default.aspx Rod Claar Principle Consultant Effective AGILE Development LLC http://EffectiveAgileDev.com

United StatesRod Claar


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