Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.1 EAN: 9780321278722 ISBN: 0321278720 Label: Addison-Wesley Professional Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: May 19, 2006 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Sales Rank: 104070 Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
Product DescriptionSoftware Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is written for a software team that is considering running a software project using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). It is about the 'why' of VSTS: its guiding ideas, why they are presented in certain ways, and how they fit into the process of managing the software lifecycle. This book is the next best thing to having an onsite coach who can lead the team through a consistent set of processes. It is a framework for thinking about software projects in a way that can be directly tooled by VSTS. It presents essential theory and practical examples to describe a realistic process for IT projects. This is a book that any team using or considering VSTS should read.
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Rating: - Buy this book to sell your boss on VSTS
If you are a member or leader of a development team that has just ordered or installed Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), and are hungry to get started on your first VSTS project, this is NOT the book for you - as it isn't a "how to" manual on VSTS!
This book's intended goal is to be a solid, project manager-oriented, look at how to use VSTS to it's maximum advantage; and it attains that goal: you'll learn VSTS's tools and capabilities; and how to employ them to manage your software development ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Experience
This book is an excellent well of experience for budding project managers out there. It focuses on the "Why" and while short on the how, never pretends to be a 'how-to' book. I learned something from every chapter.
Rating: - The First VSTS Book You Should Read
This book is a terrific high to mid level introduction to Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft Solutions Framework, and the overall philosophies and strategies behind Microsoft's ambitious undertaking. It provides terrific VSTS coverage, but it's also one the best overviews of modern software development approaches available today.
It's required reading for our instructors and mentors, and I recommend it to every one of our class and workshop participants.
Rating: - Highly Recommended
Gives a nice peek into the "why" as opposed to the "how". I have read all the VSTS books that are out there right now and I appriciated this one very much. It was an easy read, but very informative.
Rating: - Wealth of theory and practices
This book provides wealth of theory and practices for software development. It throughly explained the ideas behind Visual Studio Team Studio, just like the author said, it's not a how-to book, but will let you know why VSTS provides those functionalities, and what benefit would you get if you follow the practices.
All in all, it's a must before you use VSTS to run your projects.
- Buy this book to sell your boss on VSTS
