Managing Agile Projects Using TFS 2017 Classroom Live Kirkland, WA November 20, 2017

Price: $2,095

This course runs for a duration of 3 Days.

The class will run daily from 7:00am PT to 3:00pm PT.

Class Location: Kirkland - Kirkland, WA.

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Description

Course Description

This 3-day course provides project managers, scrum masters, and team leads with the essential skills required to effectively manage a software development project using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).

This course focuses on Agile methodologies and includes discussions and content focused on both Scrum and Kanban practises. We look at how VSTS supports the team during the sprint planning and daily Scrum events, as well as how to create and manage the product backlog and sprint backlog artifacts.

In this course, attendees will plan a new software development project and go through the steps to initiate the project using VSTS. This includes recording requirements, creating a product backlog and estimating effort for backlog items. We’ll cover planning and running a sprint as well as using the taskboard and burndown chart to track progress.

The course also covers using storyboards to prototype experiences, requesting stakeholder feedback, team collaboration and reporting. The final two modules of the course provide an overview of how testers and developers can work effectively using appropriate tools in the Visual Studio family.

This course includes hands-on labs to reinforce practical skills and ensure you’re ready to use the tools on your return to your workplace. All Scrum content adheres to the latest version of the official Scrum Guide and provides helpful preparation for anyone considering gaining Scrum certification.

At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

Describe the full feature set of Microsoft’s Application Lifecycle Management suite
Understand how Work Item Tracking (WIT) can be used across the entire team
Create custom work item queries and work item charts
Use a variety of client tools to interact with team members
Initiate a new Team Project
Enter requirements into VSTS including storyboards to illustrate requirements and experiences
Use the Kanban board to work with the product backlog
Record estimates in your requirement types
Plan and run a sprint including tracking progress using task boards and burndown charts
Understand a number of the quality indicators available
Use dashboards to view appropriate groups of reports
Record team capacity and monitor a team’s velocity
Capture quality feedback from stakeholders
Configure alerts and notifications for team members
Create work item charts and add them to the dashboard
Use Power BI to create a report

Audience

This course is designed for Project Managers, Scrum masters, Business Analysts and team leaders looking to effectively manage their development projects using either Visual Studio Team Services.

Course Overview

Module 1: Introducing the Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Family

What’s new in Visual Studio 2017
Overview of the Visual Studio 2017 family
Overview of product features
Project workflow across the Visual Studio 2017 suite of products

Module 2: Initiating a New Project

Organizing projects in VSTS
Understanding process templates
Creating a new team project
Setting team project properties

Module 3: Getting Our Team Started

Configuring teams in our team project
Setting team properties
Configuring iterations for VSTS teams

Module 4: Creating our Product Backlog

Understanding requirement types
A review of user stories
Creating backlog items in TFS
Traceability between work items
Creating requirement hierarchies using features
The importance of acceptance criteria

Module 5: Enhancing Requirements

Creating and recording personas
Overview of storyboarding capabilities
Creating a storyboard to illustrate a requirement
Linking a storyboard to a work item

Module 6: Agile Estimation

Introduction to Agile estimation
Using story points
Planning Poker and other popular estimation techniques
Adding your estimates to VSTS work items

Module 7: Working in Sprints (Planning)

Our Sprint planning meeting
Specifying your sprint schedule and your team capacity
Selecting items for the sprint backlog using forecasting
Decomposing requirements into tasks
Using burndown charts to track progress
Monitoring work using the task board
Working with unparented work items

Module 8: Working in Sprints (Execution)

Overview of Agile testing
A lap around web-based test management
Creating a test plan
Creating manual test cases from requirements
Overview of Agile development
Using My Work to select tasks from the sprint backlog
Understanding the value of linking changesets to work items

Module 9: Working in Sprints (Delivery)

Understanding potentially shippable increments
Ensuring you’re ready for the review meeting
Continuous integration
Release Management

Module 10: Retrospectives

The importance of retrospectives
Conducting an efficient sprint retrospective
What you should avoid in your retrospective

Module 11: Working from the Product Backlog

Introducing the Kanban board
Entering and editing details on the Kanban board
Customizing columns, including using split columns and limiting WIP
Recording our Definition of Done (DoD)
Understanding the Cumulative Flow Diagram

Module 12: A Closer Look at Work Items

Overview of work items
Searching and creating custom queries
Work item tagging
Configuring project notifications

Module 13: Tracking Progress with Dashboards and Reports

Searching and creating custom queries
Work item charting and pinning charts
Creating dashboards
Introduction to PowerBI
Using the PowerBI content pack

Module 14: Getting Stakeholder Feedback

Introducing the Microsoft Feedback Client
Using the Microsoft Feedback Client to provide rich feedback to the team
Adding continuous feedback into your workflow

Prerequisites

Attendees should have some familiarity with leading a software development team.

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