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ALM with TFS 2012 Fundamentals

by Benjamin Day

This course provides an overview of Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) stack, then drills in on how to use Team Foundation Server (TFS) to support your team's use of ALM best practices.

What you'll learn

Team Foundation Server (TFS) is more than just version control! This course provides an overview of the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tooling that's available using Team Foundation Server 2012. We'll start with version control and move on to cover TFS builds, project planning and project management using TFS Work Items. Along the way, we'll also discuss the features of TFS Source Control including branching and merging and also how to customize TFS's work items and automated build features. This course covers the following PMBOK® Process Groups: Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling. This course covers the following PMBOK® Knowledge Areas: Project Scope Management, Project Time Management, Project Quality Management, Project Human Resource Management, Project Communications Management.

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About the author

Benjamin Day is a consultant and trainer specializing in software development best practices using Microsoft’s development tools with an emphasis on Team Foundation Server, Scrum, and Windows Azure. He is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP, a certified Scrum trainer via Scrum.org, and a speaker at conferences such as TechEd, DevTeach, and VSLive. When not developing software, Ben’s been known to go running and kayaking in order to balance out his love of cheese, cured meats, and champagne. He can... more

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