Professional Scrum with Visual Studio 2012

Agile is where teams and organizations want to be and Scrum is a tool to help get you there. Microsoft uses Scrum, and many more are adopting Scrum to improve their ability to deliver innovative software. Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 continue the focus of enabling Agile teams. In this session you’ll see how you can adopt Scrum with the now default Scrum process template and streamlined Agile planning tools. We will create and groom our Product Backlog, look at support for multiple teams, create forecasts, and execute a Sprint.

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1. Professional Scrum Developer with Visual Studio 2012
2. Who am I? Ryan Cromwell • Coder • Agile Coach • Scrum.org Trainer • Microsoft ALM MVP
3. Session Forecast • Agile & Scrum Foundations • Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 • Product Backlog Grooming • The Sprint • Improving
4. AGILE Manifesto for Agile Software Development
5. AgileManifesto.org Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
6. Agile Frameworks & Methodologies • Scrum • Extreme Programming (XP) • Lean • Kanban Method • Feature Driven Development (FDD) • Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) • more…
7. The CHAOS Manifesto · Standish Group 2011 Successful 42% Challenged 49% Failed 9% Agile Successful 14% Challenged 57% Failed 29% Traditional http://releasecadencereport.com/
8. SCRUM Framework for solving complex problems
9. VersionOne: State of Agile 2011 Survey
10. Scrum History • Scrum, 1995 • Extreme Programming, 1996 • Agile Manifesto, 2001 • Certified Scrum Master, 2002 • Scrum.org, 2009 • New New Product Development Game, 1986
11. Scrum Framework 1. A Team forecasts delivering working software in 30 days or less 2. A time is scheduled to show that software 3. The Team creates the software 4. The Team offers their work for inspection and adapts the plan for the next cycle
12. Scrum Team Product Owner Development Team Scrum Master Service Leadership
13. Scrum Events Sprint Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective
14. Scrum Artifacts Product Backlog Sprint Backlog Increment
15. Gauge Your Knowledge • Open Assessment – Free, 30 questions • PSD Open – Developers, Free, 30 questions • Official Scrum Guide – quick read, 17 pages • Courses, Webcasts, Community • http://scrum.org
16. VISUAL STUDIO SCRUM 2.0
17. What a long way we’ve come • 2010 · Gallery Extension • 2012 · Default Template
18. Scrum in Visual Studio TFS Scrum Concept Visual Studio Scrum Scrum Team Team 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) Sprint Dates Start Date and Finish Date fields Sprint Goal Wiki entry or document on the portal 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
19. Sample Product Backlog ID Title Description Area Value Effort Priority 1 Facebook Login Allow users to login … Admin 45 5 2 2 Wish List Add products to a … Catalog 55 13 5 3 ‘Like’ Products ‘Like’ products I’ve … Marketing 20 3 3 4 Estimated Shipping Show estimated … Cart 80 5 4 5 Product Suggestions Recommend new … Catalog 30 3 1 Anyone can add these Product Owner lives and breaths this Development Team provides estimates Product Owner determines this
20. Your TFS Backlog • Product Backlog • Quick Add • Grooming • Kanban • Sprint View • Capacity • Customizable • Drag and Drop
21. Product Backlog Grooming • Scrum Team • Review, discuss, estimate PBIs • 10% of the Sprint Current Sprint Next Sprint Next, Next Sprint
22. Professional Scrum Developer – Day 2 with Visual Studio 2012
23. Recap of Day 1 • Scrum & Agile • Product Backlog Grooming • Sprint Planning
24. Sprint Planning Activities • Configure Release and Sprint Iterations with dates • Update Current Sprint Queries (tip: http://bit.ly/J7eHHY) • Drag PBIs to Sprint • Drag PBIs to Committed
25. In Sprint Taskboard • Drag and Drop • Daily Scrum • Update remaining work • Take ownership
26. Self Organizing Teams • Team Dimension • Areas, Iterations • Backlog, Board, Estimates
27. Big Visible Charts • Customizable per Team • Builds • Queries • Source Changes • Capacity • Burndown
28. My Work • Active Work • Code Reviews • Feedback Requests • Suspend & Resume (Shelvesets made useful)
29. Sprint Review • Demo • Feedback • Collaborate
30. Getting Empirical • Review Process • Expand “Definition of Done” • Experiments • Measure (WI, Builds, Source, Deployments, Energy, etc)
31. How we can help Consulting • On-premise 2012 Deployment • Blend Cloud / On-premise TFS • ALM Guidance Training Professional Scrum Developer Professional Scrum Developer
32. QUESTIONS?
33. Thank You! ryan.cromwell@appliedis.com http://appliedis.com @cromwellryan http://cromwellhaus.com