Section 2: Introduce Agile Development

AFTER COMPLETING THIS SECTION, you will be able to reorganize your team so that it can work in a more Agile way. You will have also set up the basic infrastructure you need to develop your software using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS).

We start this section by giving you an overview of Agile development with particular emphasis on Extreme Programming (XP), and we follow this with a chapter about the nature and structure of an Agile team. In Chapter 5, we review the standard process-enabling frameworks that come with VSTS and explain how they might be set up to support a software project. However, we recognize that these standard frameworks don’t meet everyone’s needs, so in Chapter 6, we describe how ...

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