November Meeting Recap: TFS 2010...from the Eyes of one of its Builders with Doug Neumann

Special thanks to Doug for joining us all the way from North Carolina. Doug delivered one of central Ohio's first looks at VSTS 2010. Thank you to Quick Solutions for sponsoring the meeting.

If you're interested in VSTS 2010, join us at DogFood II Nov. 12-13 at the Polaris Microsoft offices. Also, stay tuned to COALMG for future presentations on TFS as we get closer to the March release.

My Notes:
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• Administration
○ Wizard setup
○ Automated dependencies install
○ Deploy Vista, Win7
○ TFS>Internet
○ Scale-out
○ SSRS, SharePoint optional
○ Restore, move, archive project data
○ TFS Basic: no prereqs, 20min
• Testing
○ Test case mgmt
○ Requirements traceability
○ Record & playback
○ Automated UI testing
○ Intellitrace
○ Gated checkin
○ Test/Lab Manager
○ Test Elements (WPF stand-alone for testers)
○ Team Lab: Lab Management
• Project Management
○ Hierarchical work items
○ Excel-based agile PM tooling
○ Project dashboards: MOSS/SharePoint
○ Typed work item links
○ Spreadsheet: iteration backlog, settings, interruptions, capacity, burndown
○ Capacity
• VC
○ Branch visualization
○ Conflict resolution
○ Improved history
• WIT
• Build Automation
○ Gated Checkin
○ Agent pooling (parallel)
○ Distributed builds
○ WF
• Office Integration
• Reporting
• Team Process
• Web Access
• Design
○ UML / Layer - Enforce in build