Nuts and Bolts of Scrum Template (Dog Food III)

Copyright 2010 Cardinal Solutions Group www.cardinalsolutions.com
DOG FOOD CONFERENCE III:
Nuts & Bolts of Visual Studio Scrum v1.0 Template

Backlog
• Introductions
• State of Agile
• Scrum Overview
• Visual Studio Scrum v1.0 Template
• Putting It To Work
• Q&A
PLEASE ASK
QUESTIONS & BE
INTERACTIVE!
Some of the slides were contributed by:
Richard Hundhausen, Aaron Bjork, Martin Hinshelwood, Paul Neumeyer, Ken Schwaber, Randy Pagels, Jeff Hunsaker, & others

About Alexei
• ALM Consultant at Cardinal Solutions Group
– http://www.CardinalSolutions.com
• Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP
– http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Alexei
• Professional Scrum Developer Trainer
– http://courses.scrum.org/about/alexei-govorine
• Co-founder of COALMG
– http://www.coalmg.org
govorin.blogspot.com www.twitter.com/Leshka
About Harley
• 10 years old Black Labrador Retriever

About Cardinal
Fast Facts:
• Over 200 professionals with
offices in 4 cities
• Microsoft “Managed Partner”;
Gold Certified since 1999
• VSTS Inner Circle Partner
• MVPs; Virtual TSPs
Our Focus:
• Visual Studio ALM/TFS
• SharePoint 2007 & 2010
• Microsoft Online Services
• Microsoft Business Intelligence
• .NET Architecture/ Development
• Client Training

Objectives
• Provide a level set on Agile and Scrum
• Describe what you get with the Visual Studio
Scrum Process Template
• Demonstrate how you can start using Scrum
through Visual Studio
What we want you to walk away with…

What is Agile?
Time-box
Activity…
2min

* AGILE
Agile software development focuses on regularly delivering business value.
It embraces change while leveraging feedback to produce high quality,
desired results.
* Different for every company
• Agile is a Movement
• Represented by Methodologies
& Frameworks
• Comprised of a set of
Development & Engineering
Practices

Why Agile? Typical Project Challenges

State of Agile

Backlog
 Introductions
 State of Agile
• Scrum Overview
• Q&A

• The project is split into Sprints
• At the end of each Sprint a
working iteration of the
product is available
• Each Sprint includes parts of
planning, work and review
• 3 Roles, 6 Timeboxes and 4
Artefacts
Scrum on a Slide
http://www.scrum.org/scrumguides

Roles in Scrum
Product Owner ScrumMaster Team
Stakeholders, everyone else
ScrumTeam

Timeboxes of Scrum
doing the work +
Daily Scrums
Sprint Planning Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective
Release Planning 8 hours
Sprint 4 weeks
Sprint Planning 8 hours
Daily Scrum 15 minutes
Sprint Review 4 hours
Sprint Retrospective 4 hours

• Is a list of features for the Product
• Normally a mixture of User Stories & Bugs
– Each item is given
– An acceptance criteria
– An estimate by the Team
– A business value by the Product Owner
• Some User Stories may be large and need
future decomposition into smaller user stories
Key Artifact - Product Backlog

• A list of the Product Backlog Items
and Sprint tasks for each
• Each task will have an estimate of
hours remaining to complete
• The aim is to meet the Team’s “done”
criteria
• Decomposition of Product Backlog
into Tasks for the sprint
Key Artefact – Sprint Backlog

Key Artifact - Release Burndown Chart
Measures work remaining across the time of a release plan

Key Artifact - Sprint Burndown Chart
Measures work remaining across the time of a Sprint

Backlog
 Introductions
 State of Agile
 Scrum Overview
• Q&A

Visual Studio 2010
Scrum v1.0 Template

Visual Studio 2010
• No longer just a developer
IDE
• TFS added server-side
capability to manage the
entire software lifecycle
• No need to license
separate tools from
HP/Mercury, IBM/Rational,
Rally, etc…
• Already own with MSDN
subscription?

Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Template
• A Process Template introduced shortly after
Visual Studio 2010 launched
• Maps directly to the Scrum concepts
– Sprint vs. Iteration, PBI vs. User Story, Impediment
vs. Issue
• Available as free download from Microsoft:
– http://shrinkster.com/1exg
© 2010 Cardinal Solutions Group
What is it?

What’s in the Process Template?
* Nearly identical to that found in the MSF for Agile Software Development 5.0 template
Work Items and
Processes
Team Queries Reports
• Sprint
• Product Backlog Item
• Task
• Impediment
• Bug
• Test Case*
• Shared Steps*
• All Sprints
• Product Backlog
• Blocked Tasks
• Open Impediments
• Sprint Backlog
• Test Cases
• Unfinished Work
• Work in Progress
• Release Burndown
• Spring Burndown
• Velocity
• Build Success over Time*
• Build Summary*
• Test Case Readiness*
• Test Plan Progress*

Queries
• Product queries
• All Sprints
• Product Backlog
• Current Sprint queries
• Blocked Tasks
• Open Impediments
• Sprint Backlog
• Test Cases
• Unfinished Work
• Work in Progress

Sprint Work Item Type
• Provides a way for your team to capture additional
metadata about the Sprint
– Start date, finish date, goal, and retrospective

Product Backlog Item Work Item Type
• Represents a product requirement

PBI States

Task Work Item Type
• Represents the detailed work the team must do in
order to achieve their Sprint Goal

Task States

Impediment Work Item Type
• Represents an issue or problem that prevents the
team from completing its tasks efficiently

Test Case Work Item Type
• Used to define both manual and automated tests

Bug Work Item Type
• Represents a defect in the product
• PBI

Reports
• Scrum reports
• Release Burndown
• Sprint Burndown
• Velocity
• Engineering reports
• Build Summary
• Builds Success Over Time
• Test Case Readiness
• Test Plan Progress

Visual Studio 2010 ALM - Scrum
• Scrum team projects have many standard and
repetitive activities
– Setting up a new Team Project Collection
– Setting up a new Team Project
– Setting up Sprints
– Building Product Backlog
– Managing Acceptance Criterias
– Planning a Sprint
– Daily activities
– Tracking a Sprint Progress
– Completing a Sprint
Visual Studio Scrum Activities

Mapping Scrum to Visual Studio 2010
Scrum Concept Visual Studio Scrum 1.0
Team Team Foundation Server security groups
Definition of Done Wiki entry or document on the portal
Product Team Project
Product Backlog Product Backlog team query
Product Backlog Item Product Backlog Item work item
Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance Criteria field and (optionally) associated Test Case work
items
Release Iteration Path (high level)
Release Goal Wiki entry or document on the portal
Release Capacity Wiki entry or document on the portal
Sprint Iteration Path (low level) and associated Sprint work item
Sprint Dates Start Date and Finish Date fields
Sprint Goal Sprint Goal field
Sprint Capacity Wiki entry or document on the portal
Sprint Backlog Sprint Backlog team query
Task Task work item
Burndown and Velocity Release Burndown, Sprint Burndown, and Velocity reports
Impediment Impediment work item
Bug Bug work item
Retrospective Retrospective field in the Sprint work item
* without customization
*

Backlog
 Introductions
 State of Agile
 Scrum Overview
 Visual Studio Scrum v1.0 Template
• Q&A

Putting It to Work
Scrum Activities and Demo
Demo
• Establishing a Product
Backlog
• Managing a Sprints
• Creating and linking Task
• Managing Tests and Bugs
• Reporting

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Retrospective
 Provide a level set on Agile and Scrum
 Describe what you get with the Visual Studio
Scrum Process Template
 Demonstrate how you can implement Scrum
through Visual Studio
How did we do?

Agenda
Thank You
• @Leshka
• AGovorine@CardinalSolutions.com
• http://govorin.blogspot.com
• Scrum.org
http://www.scrum.org
• Microsoft
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/vstudio/aa718795.aspx
• PSD Class
http://courses.scrum.org/about
/alexei-govorine

Visual Studio ALM Goals
• Approachable and intuitive products
• Tight integration across tools,
process and roles
• Single integrated server
for collaboration
• Real-time reporting from
data warehouse
• Audit trail for compliance
• Improve predictability and reduce risk
Increase Project
Transparency
Facilitate Team
Collaboration
• Lightweight, customizable process
• Integrated quality tools for each role
• Reduce defects and
security vulnerabilities
Improve Software
Quality

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