Product DescriptionAs the most important component of Microsoft's Visual Studio(r) 2005 Team System, Team Foundation Server is the central integration point that provides a collaborative environment for every member of a team, regardless of role. Since Team Foundation Server is so tightly interwoven with the rest of Team System, the authors have decided to present you with an invaluable resource that covers both, so that you may learn to set up and administer Team Foundation Server in order to effectively use the whole Team System toolset effectively.
Three Microsoft Team System MVPs cover how to plan a Team System deployment, complete a software project, and everything in between. They show you how to handle real-world challenges and tackle the tasks and scenarios that encompass the entire software development lifecycle.
What you will learn from this book
How to implement IT governance such as Sarbanes-Oxley
How to work with mixed environments (including Java and .NET)
How to set up the product for large distributed environments
How and why to take multiple lifecycles into consideration when deploying and using Team System
How to create custom development tools and administer and customize work items
How to monitor your team project metrics using SQL Server Reporting Services
Who this book is for
This book is for project managers, IT administrators, and anyone whose role consists of administering Team Foundation Server on a daily basis, running a software project, setting up users, or handling security.
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Real problems, great solutions
This book help me to solve several problems in my company. I recommend.
Fabio Camara
Rating: - Mandatory reading for anyone planning or installing TFS
Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a new Microsoft product designed to help development teams better manage the software development cycle. It is a huge product, just installing and configuring it is a big task because you need to deal with Windows SharePoint Services, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Reporting Services, a data warehouse, a build server, a proxy server and of course, TFS itself. Where do you start? How do you plan such a large deployment inside your company? How the decisions that you take ... Read More
Rating: - A View of Team Server from the Management Aspect
There are a lot of books on Microsoft's Studio Team System that are written from the standpoint of the developer involved with a team development project. These books seem to be lacking the first forty pages or so. That is, they don't explain just what it is that you are trying to do, how to set up a development team, how to administer the Team System software.
It turns out that there's a lot more than forty pages in this book, but it covers exactly those points. The book is specifically ... Read More
