Are you adopting TFS 2013, 2015 or even Visual Studio Online?

Do you need to train a lot of staff members with different roles?  eg. developers, testers, scrum masters, product owners, stakeholders.

Is it difficult to allow team members to be out of the office for 2, 3 or 5 consecutive days at a training course.

RippleRock can customise a flexible TFS training course to suit you and if required combine it with consultancy, coaching and certification (eg. Certified Scrum Master, Certified Product Owner).

We typically deliver training onsite and configure the agenda and schedule to suit your requirements meaning it is a much more cost effective of training the right people on the right topics.

RippleRock are a Microsoft Gold Application Lifecycle Management Partner and our trainers are ALM Consultants with Microsoft Certified Solution Developer: Application Lifecycle Management

As an example of potential topics:

Introduction and overview

• What is Application Lifecycle Management?
• What is Team Foundation Server?
• Visual Studio Tools line up
• Process Templates & Work Items
• Choosing a Process Template
• Understanding Team Projects & Project Collections
• Client Access and Tools
• Scrum Process re-cap
• The Visual Studio Scrum Process Template

TFS Architecture & administration

• Planning a TFS  Deployment
• Installing Team Foundation Server
• Migration/Upgrade considerations
• TFS Administration Console
• Setting up SMTP & Email Alerts
• Monitoring Server Health
• Backup and Restore
• Administration via Command Line and PowerShell
• TFS Security and Permissions
• Rebuilding the TFS data warehouse and adding reports

Agile Planning

• Agile Portfolio Management
• Gathering requirements, estimation and prioritisation
• PowerPoint Storyboarding
• Backlog maintenance
• Forecasting and release planning
• Sprint Planning
• Capacity Planning
• Agile Boards (Task & Kanban)
• Working with Teams
• Team Rooms
• Work Item Queries
• Work Item Charting
• Team Web Access Reporting
• Stakeholder feedback

Agile Development

Visual Studio & Team Explorer   

• My Work
• Suspend/Resume
• Code Reviews
• Code Metrics
• Code Clone Analysis
• Unit Testing and code coverage

Team Explorer Everywhere

• Cross platform version control
• Automating builds with Nant or Maven

Version Control Basics

• Choosing a Version Control System
• Team Foundation Version Control Vs. Git
• Version Control Settings
• Check-in policies
• Check-in notes
• File types
• Workspaces
• Server Vs. Local
• Check-in/out
• Changesets
• Shelving

Advanced Version Control

• Branching & Merging
• Branching Strategies
• Branch Visualisation
• Dealing with Conflicts
• Viewing version control history
• Rolling back code changes
• Securing version control
• Using custom difference and merge tools
• Command line version control
• Git fundamentals

Automated build introduction

• Team Foundation Server Build architecture
• Creating a build definition
• Build triggers
• Continuous Integration
• Scheduled Builds
• Gated Check-ins
• Editing Build Parameters
• Including unit tests in your build process
• Queuing a build
• Private Builds

Customising automated builds

• Process customisation
• Using 3^rd Party components
• Including PowerShell scripts
• Versioning Assemblies
• Cloning a build
• Comparing Build Definitions with tfpt.exe

Agile Testing

• Overview of test tools in Visual Studio
• Microsoft Test Manager
• Test Plans/Suites/Cases
• Microsoft Test Runner
• Exploratory Testing
• Web Based Test Manager
• Automated Tests (CodedUI) inc. cross browser
• Microsoft Lab Management
• Web Performance Test and Load Test

Microsoft Release Manager

• Release Manager Overview and architecture
• Licensing Release Manager
• Integrating Release Manager with your build process
• Creating a release
• Using PowerShell Desired State Configuration

Team Foundation Server Reporting

• How data flows through TFS
• Out-of-the-box TFS reports
• Team Web Access Reports
• Work Item Charting
• Work Item Reporting
• Custom Excel Reporting
• Custom SSRS Report

Customising Team Foundation Server

• Understanding Process templates
• Editing Process Templates
• Process Template Editor
• Witadmin.exe
• Customising and creating Work Items
• Working with Global Lists
• Tailoring Agile Portfolio functionality
• Editing the Team process
• 3^rd Party Tools and controls
• Using the TFS API
• PowerShell with TFS

Contact us to discuss your requirements and build a personalised training plan.

Richard