Managing Projects with Microsoft Visual Studio TFS 2013

This 2-day course provides Project Managers, Business Analysts and Team Leaders the essential skills required to effectively manage a software development project using Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013. This course focuses on the MSF for Agile Software Development 7.0 process template and includes many of the practices commonly used by Agile Scrum teams. In this course, attendees will plan a new software development project and go through the steps to initiate the project using Visual Studio 2013. This includes recording requirements, using storyboards to prototype experiences and creating their product backlog. We'll cover planning and running a sprint as well as using the taskboard and burndown chart to track progress. On the second day of the course, we'll look at focusing on quality, stakeholder feedback, team collaboration and getting regular stakeholder feedback. The final module of the course looks at the many reports out of the box with TFS 2013 and how you can create your own reports quickly and easily using Microsoft Excel.