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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
Book Image

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By: Tarun Arora

Overview of this book

Team Foundation Server (TFS) allows you to manage code repositories, build processes, test infrastructure, and deploy labs. TFS supports your team, enabling you to connect, collaborate, and deliver on time. Microsoft's approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides a flexible and agile environment that adapts to the needs of your team, removes barriers between roles, and streamlines processes. The book introduces you to creating and setting up team projects for scrum teams. You'll explore various source control repositories, branching, and merging activities, along with a demonstration of how to embed quality into every code check-in. Then, you'll discover agile project planning and management tools. Later, emphasis is given to the testing and release management features of TFS which facilitate the automation of the release pipeline in order to create potentially shippable increments. By the end of the book, you'll have learned to extend and customize TFS plugins to incorporate them into other platforms and enable teams to manage the software lifecycle effectively.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Selecting the backlog levels displayed on the Team Portal


The default configuration in the Team Project only provides two backlog levels for every Team. These two levels in the Scrum Template are referred to as Features and Backlog Items.

Tip

Epics are very high-level requirements that represent a significant amount of work. They are broken down into Features and worked on in multiple sprints. They are also needed for safe implementations as per http://bit.ly/1H5j1Kt.

In this recipe, you'll learn how to activate the Epics backlog from the Team's Administration console.

Getting ready

To create a new Team, you need to be a member of the Project Administrator Group. To change the Team settings, you need to be a Team administrator. If you don't already have these permissions, then follow the instructions at http://bit.ly/1MS1Xn9.

Scenario: The FabrikamTFVC Team Project has two Teams, namely, FabrikamFeature1 Team and the default FabrikamTFVC Team.

  • FabrikamTFVC Team: The product owner, stakeholders...