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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

Mapping, assigning, and tracking Work Items shared by multiple Teams


Hosting multiple Teams in a Team Project helps you share Work Items, backlogs, and other artifacts such as code, builds, tests, and releases. In the Selecting the backlog levels displayed on the Team Portal recipe, you learned how to activate backlog levels displayed in the Team Portal. In this recipe, you will learn how to map, assign, and track Work Items assigned across multiple Teams.

Getting ready

Scenario: FabrikamTFVC Team Project has three Teams. The FabrikamTFVC Team focuses on managing Epics and Features; the other two Teams manage the Product Backlog Items for the Features they own:

The Epic 1 Work Item is broken down into several Features and Product Backlog Items. FabrikamTFVC Team wants to map these Work Items before assigning them out to different Teams. FabrikamTFVC Team wants to track the progress the Teams have made on Epic 1.

To set up this scenario, create a new Team FabrikamFeature2 Team in the FabrikamTFVC...