Modern application lifecycle management (ALM) involves integrating requirements management, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management using tools like Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server (VS-TFS). VS-TFS provides features for managing projects from planning through release including requirements management, iteration planning, source control, builds, testing, and reporting. It supports collaboration through team rooms and integration with other Microsoft products provides visibility across the development lifecycle.

1. Modern application lifecycle management
Daniel Mann, Frederic Persoon
InCycle Software

2. Agenda
ALM
What is it?
The scope
VS-TFS
How it works
The platform
Conclusion
And Q&A

3. ALM

4. Application lifecycle management
“Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the
marriage of business management to
software engineering made possible by tools
that facilitate and integrate requirements
management, architecture, coding, testing, tracki
ng, and release management.”
-Wikipedia

5. Team barriers = value delivery
impediments
||

6. Continuous value without barriers
Define
REQUIREMENTS
• Requirements
toolbox
• User and stakeholder
engagement
Develop
• Continuous testing
• Continuous feedback
• Acceptance test driven
development
• End-to-end traceability
with PMO integration
WORKING SOFTWARE
SHARED ARTIFACTS

7. The scope

8. Team Foundation Server is the collaboration
hub

9. Typical scenario
New project
proposal
Business
objectives
Alignment
New
Resource
Mgmt
Portfolio
Change
Approval
Roll-up of
Progress
Allocation update
Consolidation
Yes
Project
Timesheet
Progress
Details
Time per Resource per day
Task

10. How it works – The basics

11. Office
Web Access
SharePoint
Team Explorer
Everywhere
TEAM
FOUNDATION
SERVER

12. Access

13. TFS process templates

14. Work items – Queries - Reports - SharePoint

15. Scrum vs. Agile vs. CMMi

16. How it works – The features

17. Insight - Define
Work Item
Feedback
mechanism
Microsoft
Integration

18. Storyboarding

19. Storyboarding

20. Storyboarding

21. Feedback

22. Integration

23. Insight – Track and Monitor

24. Enterprise agile project portfolios

25. The hierarchy of requirements

26. Work breakdown per team

27. Portfolio backlog

28. Product backlog

29. Assign to sprint

30. Sprint backlog

31. Capacity planning

32. Capacity planning

33. Insight – visibility

34. Board

35. Web access– Queries - Reports - SharePoint

36. Portfolio – Product - Sprint

37. Insight – collaboration
Team rooms

38. Teams
Multiple teams
working on the
same backlog

39. Team rooms

40. Insight – quality
Production
incidents

41. Exploratory testing

42. Loop back production incident

43. Insight – Additional features
Project server
integration
Extensibility

44. Charting

45. Project Server

46. Extensibility

47. Demo

48. What’s new for developers in
VS/TFS2013?

49. UI Improvements
• More colors
• Redesigned Team Explorer, featuring icons
• Ability to “pop out” dockable windows for pending
changes, builds, etc

50. Release Management
• New tool for release management -- InRelease
• Ships in-the-box
• Greatly simplifies releasing software

51. Team Room
• Real-time collaborative chat room for team project members
• Source control and build actions announced in real-time

52. Improved Git Support
• Git is an option for source control when creating a Team
Project
• Team Build supports Git
• Ships with GUI tools for managing repositories and
performing common Git actions

53. Modeling

54. Code analysis

55. Code Lens
• View where code is referenced
• See what tests cover a particular method, and whether those
tests are passing
• See TFS check-in and work item history for code

56. Demo

57. Conclusion

58. VS-TFS fully supports your modern development process
• You can manage multiple teams working on the same
backlog;
• You can manage several level of requirements;
• You can forecast utilization and capacity;
• You can easily manage your backlogs;
• Real time visibility and transparency are build in;
• Dashboards and reports are available to assess progress
at a glance; and
• Easy to loop in feedback and incidents into your backlog.

59. VS-TFS fully supports your modern development process
• Fully integrated, from planning to release
• Powerful tools to understand and improve your code
• Intuitive UI

60. Modern ALM
InCycle Software – http://www.incyclesoftware.com – frederic.persoon@incyclesoftware.com
Q&A

61. Additional Resources
VM: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2013/08/27/new-lab-agile-planning-and-portfolio-management-withteam-foundation-server-2013.aspx
What’s new in Planning and Tracking: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh913786(v=vs.110)
What’s New in 2012 RC: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386063(v=vs.110)
Agile Planning and Iterations: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh500404(v=vs.110)
Customize Task Board : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh739066(v=vs.110).aspx
Engaging Stakeholders Through Continuous Feedback: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh301769(v=vs.110)
Enabling Data Flow Between TFS and Project Server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg455680(v=vs.110)
Teams (An older Blog post): http://www.clemensreijnen.nl/post/2011/10/09/Teams-in-VS11.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dn306083(v=vs.120).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh913786(v=vs.120).aspx
Estimate: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh765979(v=vs.120).aspx
Ordering: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh765981(v=vs.120).aspx
Analytics: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/jj620913(v=vs.120).aspx

62. North American Leader in ALM Services

63. Services & Solutions
Services
Solutions

64. Visit www.incyclesoftware.com