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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

Setting up the Team's capacity and activity for a sprint


In the previous recipes in this chapter, you learned about the Product backlogs. If Product Backlog Items are requirements for work, the sprint backlog is the plan to complete that work. In order to plan the work for a sprint, the Team needs a view of the total available capacity. Up until TFS 2015, the Team capacity functionality was limited to one activity per individual per sprint. In this recipe, you'll learn how to enter multiple activities and capacity per Team member in a sprint.

Getting ready

Scenario: The FabrikamFeature1 Team has the next sprint starting from tomorrow for 2 weeks. The Team is comprised of eight members, and a few individuals have planned vacations during this period. The Team wants to know the total capacity available in this sprint.

To add a new sprint and configure the start and end dates for the sprint, navigate to the FabrikamFeature1 Team control panel by browsing http://tfs2015:8080/DefaultCollection/FabrikamTFVC...