Team Foundation Server Process Templates For Effective Project Management

Aaron Bjork, Team Foundation Server Kimberly Walters, Engineering Excellence June 2nd, 2009

What is a process template? What process templates are available? In the Box 3rd Party Microsoft Process Template What’s new in Team Foundation Server 2010? MSF for Agile 5.0 Agile Workbooks Reporting & Dashboards Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

After attending this presentation, you'll be able to: Describe what a process template is Better choose a process template for your organization Understand new features shipping in Team Foundation Server 2010. Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

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Behind the scenes it’s just a bunch of XML Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

Work Item Type Definitions Work Item Links Queries Reports Portal Settings Source Control Settings Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

MSF for Agile Software Development Lightweight/Flat Stretch to fit Targets teams implementing Agile project management practices MSF for CMMI Process Improvement Deeper hierarchy Stretch to fit Targeting teams interested in deep traceability/auditablity Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

Epics & Themes Managing your product Planning backlog as User Stories As a <> I want to <> so that I User Story can <>. Stories are broken down Execution into specific tasks Task, Test Case, & Bug Bugs are tracked during the iteration Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

Planning Business Objective Requirements are created at many levels and tracked as a hierarchy Feature Tracking changes to Change Request features. Execution Task Work during execution Test Case, & Bug Implementation verification Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

EMC/Conchango – Scrum for Team System Cognizant – FDD Osellus – IRIS Process Author Object Group – Process Mentor Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

A process template for product development at Microsoft

Understand the case for a common Microsoft Process Template Learn why process templates are important in VSTS Repeat the elements of the MPT Hierarchy to your team Define why the Microsoft Process Template is needed in the organization and explain why you can utilize this template to implement VSTS for your organization Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

One Standard Engineering Platform More effective use of resources Learn one tool and seamlessly move from group to group Ease of rollups across groups Exchange would not be the product it is today Customers want to use what we use Showcasing the use of our own products externally Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

Methodology for product development at Microsoft Provides work break down structure & hierarchy Enables common terminology Provides predictability of product commitments Alignment of project work and resources with project goals Transparency of the project work and status Commitment to know what you own and when it is due Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

The two default templates in VSTS do not fairly represent the product development work done at Microsoft. Customizing work item types and rules, check-in policy, process documentation, report creation and document templates requires work. Leveraged by medium and small size product groups at Microsoft. Scheme is roughly based on the existing implementations from several large teams Showcasing the use of our own products externally Incorporates Engineering Excellence Best Practices Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

Value What if you could? Would you buy/upgrade? Prop Planning Let me show you how? or… Large area of customer Scenario value The product enables this Feature scenario by… This unit of work is a Execution Deliverable portion of code Individual work required for Task & Bug execution Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

Linking Automatic Rollups Ability to link work item types in Start/End Dates Orcas Remaining & Completed Units Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

Product Readiness Execution Reports Reports Deliverable Weekly Customer Value Progress Proposition & Scenario Task Report Completion Report Bug Stats Report Feature Completion Bug Rates Report Report Dependency Report Feature Long pole Report Document Readiness Report Project Dashboard Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

MPT 1.0 for Orcas – available now MPT 1.5 for Orcas – releases at the end of this month & includes Enhanced reports Detailed Tracking for Bugs MPT 2.0 for Rosario (Dev10) Enhanced support for agile/scrum users Integration of linking capabilities Additional reports Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

Microsoft Process Template CodeBox Site http://codebox/mpt Microsoft Process Template BGIT Site http://sharepoint/sites/BGCOEOps/DevSer/VSTF/Pages/RequestPr oject.aspx Excellence in Engineering: A Shared Pursuit Microsoft Confidential

MSF for Agile Software Development 5.0

Agile Workbooks

Reporting & Dashboards

Aaron Bjork – abjork@microsoft.com Kimberley Walters – kimpa@microsoft.com

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