MSVS TFS Practical Ruck Guidance

Today I dug a little deeper in some white papers and guidance the ALM rangers are sharing on CodePlex.

One of the topics they cover is the use of the RUCK software development technique.

While I have seen Agile and Scrum so far, I was really interested in this one. Why?

Atm, I am working in a team where this kind of approach might be a lot better then the Agile or Scrum development techniques.

You can find more in detail here.

Because I was so impressed I shared the explanation on RUCK, which in the rugby world means "loose scrum", on YouTube to give you a quick intro on the idea behind the technique.

This video & documentation should give you an idea if this technique might be applicable in your working environment.

Application Lifecycle Management & Team Foundation Server

Version Control & ALM
As GIS developer I use Team Foundation Server on a daily basis now. 

I used Subversion in the past, but TFS is fairly new to me. 

I've been using both products as version control only and was really interested to figure out how this tool (TFS) can be used as ALM. 

A colleague of mine suggested the use of TFS as ALM this week during a meeting.

Because of that, I decided to quickly figure out the do's and don'ts and get myself up to speed with the product and it's features.

ALM & TFS VIDEOS

Today I followed a 4 hour video course on ALM and TFS. A complete summary of the topics I tackled can be found here.

IRL Application

The video's cover a series of topics that could resolve some difficulties we face at work. I am very interested how this unfolds.

Because I don't have TFS installed at home I will have to wait till Monday to test some features I can quickly implement for personal purposes.