Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams

Section 10: Provide and Reveal Value

IN THIS FINAL section of the book, we consider the importance of a team providing and revealing the value that exists in its work from the earliest stages of a project. Chapter 31 addresses the value that a team can obtain from the technical information gathered about its activities by Team Foundation Server (TFS), and in particular, it looks at how a team might produce reports from this data to help improve performance. Chapter 32 then discusses the value the business can obtain by exploiting the team’s software earlier in the development cycle as a result of the team revealing its features iteratively and incrementally. Ultimately, it is this ability to provide and reveal value which defines an Agile team ...