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Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action Jamil Azher MEAP Release: March 2008 Softbound print: November 2008 (est.) | 375 pages ISBN: 1933988592 |
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DESCRIPTION
In complex software projects, managing the development process can be as critical to success as writing the code itself. A project may involve dozens of developers, managers, architects, testers, and customers, hundreds of builds, and thousands of opportunities to get off-track. To keep tabs on the people, tasks, and components of a medium- to large-scale project, most teams use a development system that allows for easy monitoring, follow-up, and accountability.
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 (TFS), the server component of Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), provides a powerful collaborative platform for software-development teams. The product offers an integrated toolset for tracking work items, creating test cases, managing source code, generating builds, constructing database schemas, and so on. Because in software development one size does not fit all, TFS provides process customization, project management, and reporting capabilities to build solutions around your requirements.
Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action is a hands-on guide to Team Foundation Server 2008. Written for developers with a good handle on TFS basics, this book shows you how to solve real-life problems. It's not a repetition of Microsoft's product documentation. Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action is a practitioner's handbook for how to work with TFS under common constraints. This book walks you through real-life software engineering problems based on hundreds of hours of TFS experience.
You'll benefit from expert author Jamil Azher's extensive interactions with members of Microsoft's TFS team and MVPs, survey feedback from the author's blog, and interviews with organizations and user groups using TFS. Instead of just offering a high-level overview, the book provides detailed solutions for solving common—and not-so-common—problems using TFS. It discusses the strengths as well as weaknesses of TFS, and suggests appropriate problem resolution steps, workarounds, or custom solutions.
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Detailed, bottom-up solutions to real-life problems using TFS
- TFS for database professionals
- Visual Studio 2008 TFS
About the Author
Jamil Azher has over 17 years of experience in software development ranging from hands-on programming, remote as well as on-site project management, technology leadership, and entrepreneurial ventures. He is currently Principal Enterprise Architect in Wolters Kluwer Financial Services (WKFS), one of the nation's top compliance solution providers. Over the years, Jamil has coached members of the technical staff, created and reviewed architecture of major products and web services, developed technology plans for VCs, supervised development of mission-critical financial applications onsite and offshore, and interacted with CxOs and Technology Committees of large financial institutions regarding technology strategy. His work included ensuring compatibility and interoperability of a company's products and services with client IT infrastructure and policies, selecting technology platforms for executing company's business plans, and creating technology roadmaps for the company's products and services. Jamil has a master's degree in IT from Harvard and bachelor's degree in engineering from Caltech. He is the author of Global Outsourcing using VSTS, published by Thomson Delmar Learning.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Forum
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