Navigate to the backlog Kanban board for this team. Note that you may need to browse for the team if it hasn’t been accessed recently. Navigate to the Fabrikam Fiber Devices Team using the navigation as before. Each backlog has its own Kanban board, and each team has its own view of that. It assists with the throttling and tracking of work and illustrates the delivery of value over time to the project stakeholders.
Kanban is a process improvement tool that can be used in an incremental fashion regardless of the current software development methodology that you are using.
The Kanban board was first introduced with Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1. Both of these features can be utilized and customized independently by different teams, without making changes to the underlying process template. You will also learn about work item tagging.
In this exercise, you will learn more about Kanban and how it contributes to the flexibility of the agile toolset. Understanding this, Microsoft has begun to allow individual teams to customize certain aspects of the ways in which they manage and track their work without requiring centralized changes to their process templates. This approach requires that everybody in the organization uses the same team project within Team Foundation Server and therefore the same process template (which defines the way work items and their workflows are defined). In the previous exercise, you learned about how Team Foundation Server can scale to meet the needs of larger teams working towards common goals. The team, which consists of 8-10 people has decided to use Visual Studio application lifecycle management tools to manage their source code, run their builds, test their web sites, and plan and track the project. In this set of hands-on labs, you will take part in a number of scenarios that involve the development and testing team at Fabrikam Fiber. They also use an on-premises ASP.NET MVC application for their customer service representatives to administer customer orders. They are growing rapidly and have embraced Windows Azure to scale their customer-facing web site directly to end-users to allow them to self-service tickets and track technicians. Fabrikam Fiber provides cable television and related services to the United States. This set of hands-on-labs uses a fictional company, Fabrikam Fiber, as a backdrop to the scenarios you are learning about. Apply this snapshot/checkpoint before starting this lab. If you followed the “Working with the Visual Studio 2017 ALM Virtual Machine.docx” instructions you should already have a snapshot/checkpoint of the virtual machine before working with it for the first time. This lab requires you to use the default state of the virtual machine, before any modifications are made to work items or source in TFS.
Click the button below to launch the virtual machine on the Microsoft Hands-on-Labs portal.Īlternatively, you can download the virtual machine from here In order to complete this lab you will need the Visual Studio 2017 virtual machine provided by Microsoft. We will also take a look at how the tools have been enhanced in this release to scale for larger teams and organizations.
You will explore the product backlog, sprint backlog, and task boards which can be used to track the flow of work during the course of an iteration.
In this lab, you will learn about the agile planning and portfolio management tools and processes provided by Team Foundation Server 2018 and how they can help you quickly plan, manage, and track work across your entire team.