Speakers: Lori Lamkin and Sunder Raman
I must say, the degree to which the VSTS stack is being optimized for Agile software development is intriguing. VSTS drank the Agile Koolaid. Pretty striking.
- "The debate on tools is over. Good tooling is necessary to a successful Agile implementation." Well, I guess I agree with most of that.
- TDD in 2010 demo.
- Using ASP.NET MVC
- Wrote the test that referenced a non-existent class (because it isn’t written yet). Then right click the classes and methods to gen them in the SUT project. Nice. This will save a lot of time. He just created a failing test that compiled by stubbing the classes being tested.
- Basically, this is showing off some new, shiny refactoring tools. Looking at the new refactoring options, they are getting more complete but ReSharper is not quaking in its boots.
- Continuous Integration
- Gated Check In. Brian Harry showed a little of this sweetness in the last session, but this is the session showing the real juice.
- "The longer you wait to integrate, the longer it takes to do it." Amen.
- Gated check in
- Creates a shelfset (invisible to the person checking in)
- Does a merge to main with the shelfset
- Builds on a build agent without
- If all passes in the build, the shelfset is merged into main.
- Now main will go build
- They are talking about basic support for Scrum in the new Agile process template that comes out of the box.
- Process Template and Work Items
- The task work item includes actuals on hours.
- Reports (like burndowns) are being moved into Excel worksheets. This will make passing around metrics about the teams and iterations so much easier.
- Velocity is being calculated in hours. They still don’t get it.
- The word Iteration is still used over the word Sprint. I am fine with that one.
- Excel is being heavily favored over Reporting Services. Good.
- Work Item management is primarily moving into the WSS and MOSS portals. Thank goodness! This means fewer sights and maybe we wont need a separate web access application.
- How MSFT is using it.
- MSFT is using this system to track and build VSTS 2010.
- Feature crews 7+-2 people
- Teams work against a Done Done List
- The reporting against the Feature Crews is amazing. Looks very FDD.
That’s all for now, folks.