Professional Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2010

by Steve Resnick, Aaron Bjork, Michael de la Maza

Professional guidance on using Microsoft’s Visual Studio toolset for agile project management 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. Professional Scrum with Team foundation Server 2010 combines theory with practical experience to help experienced software project managers and developers ship reliable software on time.

336 pages, Paperback

First published April 4, 2011

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did not find this book to be earthshaking. The value that I got from it was to clarify my thinking about scrum (and to understand how TFS might support scrum). There are some useful concepts that I am borrowing from this book for managing my team, but I have come to a certain level of distrust for TFS in general, and I want to explore other options as we seek to automate our deployment practices.

[Katee Culp · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for someone new to Scrum and TFS. Would like to have seen more of how configuration management fit into the picture. As CM trickles down into the hands of developers I think there needs to be more education on why it is important and how to build it into the Agile process.

[Kate Perederko · Rating 4 out of 5]

It helped to setup SCRUM process with TFC step-by-step especially with testing and business teams