Intro; Table of Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Handling Teams; VSTS and TFS; Team Project Collections, Team Projects, and Teams; Work Items; Iterations/Sprints and Areas; Determining the Ideal Size for Teams; Getting Started; Creating a Team Project; Managing Backlog; Isolating the Work of a Small Team; Managing Delivery Cadence; Monitoring the Progress of the Teams; Large Teams; Getting Started with Large Teams; Organizing the Backlog of Larger Teams; Defining the Delivery Cadence for Multiple Teams

Monitoring the Progress of Multiple TeamsSummary; Chapter 2: Working with a Backlog; Defining Work; Work That Delivers Value to Clients; Support Work; Spike Items; Backlog; Levels of Backlog; Adding Defects/Bugs to the Backlog; Grooming Your Backlog; Definition of Done (DoD); Definition of Ready (DoR); Using Work Item Fields; Using Test Cases and Tasks; Prioritizing the Backlog; Estimating Your Backlog Work; Getting Stakeholder Feedback; Defining a Process; Planning with a Small Team; Task Estimations; Capacity Planning; Planning with a Large Team; Visualizing Your Plan

The Sprint Zero or the Pre-SprintSummary; Chapter 3: Working on the Iteration; Starting the Sprint; Daily Activity; Planning the Day; Choosing Work for the Day; Tracking and Resolving Impediments and Other Supportive Work; Handling Supportive Work within the Team; Handling Impediments/Roadblocks; Working with Code; Testing the Work; Monitoring the Progress; Avoiding Defects; Facilitating Unavoidable Changes; Handling Disaster Situations; Release Stability; Visualizing and Positively Impacting the Team; Summary; Chapter 4: Work After an Iteration; Review; Handling Partially Done Stories

Moving Partially Completed Work to the BacklogVisualizing and Analyzing the Completed Work; Velocity; Burndown and Burnup; Lead Time and Cycle Time; Cumulative Flow; Understanding How the Work Is Progressing; Bulges in Cumulative Flow; Flat Lines and Scope Changes; Planning the Next Iteration; Forecasting Future Work; Planning Capacity for the Next Iteration; Continuous Improvement; Summary; Chapter 5: Roadmap/Project Plan and Resources; Creating the Project Plan/Product Roadmap; Creating the Project Plan/Product Roadmap; Using Microsoft Excel; Integration with Microsoft Project

Using Delivery TimelinesPower BI Integration; Other Integrations; Business Analysis; Office Integration; Smart Office4TFS; Using PowerPoint for Storyboarding; The Mobile Interface; Summary; Chapter 6: Adapting VSTS/TFS to Your Team's Process; Customizing Shared Resources; Customizing Team Projects and Processes; Customizing VSTS with Template Inheritance; Adding a Custom Field; Modifying an Existing Field; Changing the Status Workflow of a Work Item; Custom Rules; Custom Backlog Levels and Work Items; Customizing VSTS with Hosted XML; Customizing with TFS On-premises XML