Pro Visual Studio Team System Application Lifecycle Management

You can have the best coders in the world working in your teams, but if your project management isn’t up to scratch, your project is almost certain to be delayed, to come in over budget, and in some cases to fail entirely. By taking precise control of your application development process, you can make changes, both large and small, throughout your project’s life cycle that will lead to better–quality finished products that are consistently delivered on time and within budget.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is an area of rapidly growing interest within the IT development community. Because its techniques allow you to deal with the process of developing applications across many areas of responsibility and across many different disciplines, its effects on your project can be wide ranging and pronounced. It is a project management tool that has practical implications for the whole team—from architects to designers, from developers to testers.

This book focuses on the most powerful ALM tool available for the Microsoft .NET Framework: Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). It demonstrates the key concepts and techniques of ALM and illustrates how they can be achieved using the tools VSTS provides in a clear succinct style. After reading the book, you will understand how VSTS can be used to generate continuous meaningful reporting on your project’s health for the decision makers on your team as well as for your project’s sponsors.

What you’ll learn

• What ALM is and what it can do for you
• How to achieve traceability in your projects
• How to improve your development process
• Why VSTS is so much more than just a version control tool
• What the importance of well–designed and well–defined processes is and how to implement these things

Who this book is for

This book will be of value for anyone developing applications with Visual Studio Team System whether they are working in a small team of just a few people or in a large enterprise environment.

你可以擁有全球最優秀的程式設計師加入你的團隊，但如果你的專案管理不到位，你的專案幾乎肯定會延遲、超出預算，有時甚至會完全失敗。通過精確掌控應用程式開發過程，你可以在專案的整個生命週期中進行大小變更，從而產生更高質量的成品，並能按時且在預算內交付。

應用程式生命週期管理（ALM）是IT開發社群中一個快速增長的領域。由於它的技術允許你處理跨多個責任區域和不同學科的應用程式開發過程，它對你的專案的影響可以是廣泛且顯著的。它是一個專案管理工具，對整個團隊——從架構師到設計師，從開發人員到測試人員——都有實際的影響。

本書專注於Microsoft .NET Framework最強大的ALM工具：Visual Studio Team System（VSTS）。它演示了ALM的關鍵概念和技術，並以清晰簡潔的風格展示了如何使用VSTS提供的工具實現這些概念和技術。閱讀本書後，你將了解VSTS如何用於為團隊的決策者和專案贊助商生成持續有意義的專案健康報告。

你將學到什麼：
- ALM是什麼，它對你有什麼作用
- 如何實現專案的可追蹤性
- 如何改進你的開發過程
- 為什麼VSTS不僅僅是一個版本控制工具
- 良好設計和明確定義流程的重要性以及如何實施這些事情

本書適合對使用Visual Studio Team System開發應用程式的任何人，無論他們是在一個只有幾個人的小團隊還是在大型企業環境中工作。