Course Details

This five day course is designed to get your entire team working efficiently with Microsoft’s Application Lifecycle Management solution based around Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013. The course is divided into different topics on each of the days to help you gain a complete understanding of the features and capabilities of Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013.

This class is designed for individuals or complete development teams who need to learn how to use Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 for Agile software development. This course covers project management, Agile development, test management strategies, and TFS administration. This course can also be taught onsite at your facilities and can be custom-tailored to meet the needs of team members and place emphasis specific job roles to ensure a successful TFS deployment.

This course includes hands-on labs to reinforce practical skills and ensure you’re ready to use the tools on your return to your workplace.

At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• Describe the full feature-set of Microsoft’s Application Lifecycle Management suite
• Create Team Projects and Team Project Collections as appropriate for your environment
• Understand how Work Item tracking can be used across the entire team
• Create custom work item queries and alerts
• Use a variety of client tools to interact with team members and TFS
• Use the Best Practises Analyzer to validate your TFS deployment
• Configure SMTP support and customise email alerts
• Manage your TFS instance including backup and restore strategies
• Configure standard role based security for team projects
• Use the version control system to maintain source code as well as branch and merge code
• Improve code using the Code Review workflow in My Work
• Enhance team collaboration using Team Rooms
• Create automated builds and automate the execution of unit tests
• Manage their projects using the Agile Planning tools
• Create Portfolio backlogs to help manage large projects
• Manage work in teams including sprints and backlogs
• Create Test Plans, Test Suites and Test Cases
• Perform a variety of testing using the testing tools in Microsoft Test Manager