This video guides you through what’s new in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012, changes in the Visual Studio Scrum template, how to use the new Agile project management tools and many other best practices.

This presentation explores TFServices offering, features and possibilities how to engage full potential of cloud based collaboration platform made by Microsoft. It looks at project planning features found in TFServices. Team definition, project and sprint iteration planning possibilities, Scrum-like product backlog listing and agile planning boards are just a few new features available in new TFServices. The session will give you deeper understanding of what could be gain by using cloud based team collaboration platform: Team Foundation Services.

In .NET software development, old-school branch-per-feature meant that branches were large and long living to avoid having to integrate because it was a pain as the feature would diverge further and further from other features or the mainline. Including and excluding features from what needs to be shipped should be a smooth process.

In this article, based on chapter 7 of Agile ALM, contributor Hadi Hariri shows you how easy it is to use a build framework such as MSBuild or TeamCity to build .NET software. He also demonstrates how to add Continuous Integration (CI) with .NET applications to an Agile ALM CI ecosystem that can also integrate other artifact types, such as Java.

This video offers insights into the future of Application Lifecycle Management and agile development that are incorporated in the next release of Visual Studio.