Status reports shouldn't be time sinks for teams to create and understand. This topic will demonstrate how Team Foundation Server reports can be easily prepared, keep a project on track and serve as critical decision-making tools to deal with inevitable project changes. Finally, this section of the workshop will feature a few typical "disasters," preventable with TFS.

Software deployment should not be a dreaded task in the development process. By utilizing automated builds in Team Foundation Server, participants will better understand the health and organization of applications throughout the project, preventing the end-of-project surprise (the "bad kind"). This topic will demonstrate the benefit of automated builds and the calamities they can avert by dynamically assessing build quality.

Quality is everyone's responsibility. Development teams should integrate quality checks throughout every phase of the development process rather than relegating it as the final, pre-deployment task. By utilizing Visual Studio Team System to manage testing tasks, test types, test automation and test results, quality is always front-of-mind with all team members. This topic will demonstrate how to fully integrate the software development lifecycle with quality assurance.

Strong process speeds development and increases software quality. When implemented properly process enables development teams and minimizes "workarounds" and inefficiencies. This topic will demonstrate a smoothly implemented process methodology in Team Foundation Server, customized for an organization and embraced by the development team.

Learn the tips and techniques to drive organizational change through agile adoption. Explore different agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Lean and MSF for Agile, and see how Visual Studio can help “agile-enable” your development process. You’ll learn best practices, lessons learned and concrete strategies from an agile coach and Certified ScrumMaster. Bring your questions, concerns and difficulties to this workshop!

Identify the right metrics for process improvement in your organization and learn how leverage Visual Studio to use those metrics and improve your ability to deliver better software, more reliably, faster. Discuss the four characteristics of effective metrics, determine the best metrics to implement next, and modify Team Foundation Server to collect the right metrics for your team.

Discover the benefits of Visual Studio in a presentation geared toward users of IBM Rational tools. This workshop is made up of two parts: why and how. "Why" covers the business and technical benefits of migrating to VSTS from IBM Rational tools. “How” previews tips and techniques for migrating from ClearCase and ClearQuest to Team Foundation Server.

Bring the power of Visual Studio to software written in non-.NET languages on non-Windows operating systems. Learn to work with Team Foundation Server using Eclipse and Linux – all using familiar tools integrated seamlessly into Team System. Understand how Teamprise works, the operating systems and platforms it supports, and how it fits into your enterprise deployment of Visual Studio.