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Get More Bang for Your Buck

Getting the Most out of Team Foundation Server

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What You’ll Learn (hopefully)

Team Foundation Server is Greedy

TFS can probably do

more than you think

More people can use TFS

than you think

There are a lot of TFS freebies

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In Case You Didn’t Know..

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Feed Team Foundation’s Narcissism

test results

source code

binaries

bugs

issues

requirements

tasks

use casesbuild data

risks

change requests

helpdesk tickets

Gimme!

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VERSION CONTROLGet More Bang for Your Buck

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Don’t Pigeon-Hole TFS

• TFS is NOT a re-branded VSS• TFS is NOT just for .NET

development– “If you can save it”• Any file size, any file type

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Keep your Shelves Tidy

• Don’t keep them for too long

• Share files, do peer reviews

• Save WIP

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Don’t Hate, Annotate!

• Use it for Good, not Evil (or try not to, at least)

• Identify intra-file historical changes

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DEMOAnnotate

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Hey, you in the 3rd row. Are you sleeping? It’s the last session! Stick it out,

then go get a beer!

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WORK ITEM TRACKINGGet More Bang for Your Buck

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Don’t Re-Create, Relate!

• Create related work items– Eliminate a lot of copy & paste

• Link test results, but also the tests themselves

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Office: Your Unspoken Hero

• SQL Reporting Services is cool, but not for everyone

• What about Excel & Visio?

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DEMOExcel Reporting & TFS

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OTHER STUFFGet More Bang for Your Buck

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F5 is NOT a Build System

• Test Drive Team Build• Several Build Scenarios– Continuous– Rolling– Scheduled– Ad-hoc

• Heck, build your database, too.. (gasp!)

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“Fire and Forget” User Licensing

Take advantage of Licensing Change New in 2008 Expands Potential TFS

Footprint

NO TFS CAL needed when: Creating work items Viewing/Editing work items created by user

Use WIWA Slimmed Down Web Access Confines UI to CAL-less model

Integrate TFS with Existing Helpdesk

Cross-post tickets into TFS work items

Partners can help (plug, plug)

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Everyone Needs a Power Tool

• Windows Explorer Extension• Team Members• Check-in Policy Pack• Alerts Editor• Power Shell Extensions• Command Line–Unshelve, rollback, treeclean

• Process Template Editor

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DEMOPower Tools

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What’s in the Pipe?

• Hierarchical Work Items• Version Control– First class branches– Visualize branch relationships• Drag & Drop Merging

– Track change across branches• History, Timeline, Annotate

• Workflow-based Build

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QUESTIONS?If we have time, love to hear ‘em!