Session #6: Get More Bang For Your Buck

Get More Bang for Your Buck Getting the Most out of Team Foundation Server

What You‟ll Learn (hopefully) TFS can Team probably do Foundation more than you Server is Greedy think More people There are a lot can use TFS of TFS freebies than you think

In Case You Didn‟t Know..

Feed Team Foundation‟s Narcissism change requests Gimme! source code risks issues binaries tasks build data use cases test results bugs helpdesk tickets requirements

Get More Bang for Your Buck VERSION CONTROL

Don‟t Pigeon-Hole TFS • TFS is NOT a re-branded VSS • TFS is NOT just for .NET development – “If you can save it” • Any file size, any file type

Keep your Shelves Tidy • Don‟t keep them for too long • Share files, do peer reviews • Save WIP

Don‟t Hate, Annotate! • Use it for Good, not Evil (or try not to, at least) • Identify intra-file historical changes

Annotate DEMO

Hey, you in the 3rd row. Are you sleeping? It’s the last session! Stick it out, then go get a beer!

Get More Bang for Your Buck WORK ITEM TRACKING

Don‟t Re-Create, Relate! • Create related work items – Eliminate a lot of copy & paste • Link test results, but also the tests themselves

Office: Your Unspoken Hero • SQL Reporting Services is cool, but not for everyone • What about Excel & Visio?

Excel Reporting & TFS DEMO

Get More Bang for Your Buck OTHER STUFF

F5 is NOT a Build System • Test Drive Team Build • Several Build Scenarios – Continuous – Rolling – Scheduled – Ad-hoc • Heck, build your database, too.. (gasp!)

“Fire and Forget” User Licensing Take advantage of Expands New in 2008 Potential TFS Licensing Footprint Change NO TFS CAL Viewing/Editing Creating work work items needed when: items created by user Slimmed Down Confines UI to Use WIWA Web Access CAL-less model Integrate TFS Cross-post Partners can with Existing tickets into TFS help (plug, plug) work items Helpdesk

Everyone Needs a Power Tool Windows Explorer Extension • Team Members • Check-in Policy Pack • Alerts Editor • Power Shell Extensions • Command Line • – Unshelve, rollback, treeclean • Process Template Editor

Power Tools DEMO

What‟s in the Pipe? • Hierarchical Work Items • Version Control – First class branches – Visualize branch relationships • Drag & Drop Merging – Track change across branches • History, Timeline, Annotate • Workflow-based Build

If we have time, love to hear „em! QUESTIONS?

Session #6: Get More Bang For Your Buck

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