Story Boarding - TFS 2012

1. Click Storyboarding tab on the PowerPoint ribbon.
2. Create a new slide with your desired layout.
3. Open Storyboard Shapes and start dragging and dropping shapes onto your storyboard.

 

Microsoft Visual Studio Virtual Labs - Worth checking!

Check here on set of interesting Virtual Labs that covers some good TFS 2012 features:

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• Agile Project Management in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012
• Building the Right Software: Generating Storyboards and Collecting Stakeholder Feedback with Visual Studio 2012
• Diagnosing Issues in Production with IntelliTrace and Visual Studio 2012
• Unit Testing and Code Clone Analysis with Visual Studio 2012
• Making Developers More Productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012
• Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 2012
• Introduction to PreEmptive Analytics
• Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 2012
• Introduction to Test Planning with Microsoft Test Manager 2012
• Introduction to Test Case Management with Microsoft Test Manager 2012
• Introduction to Platform Testing with Microsoft Test Manager 2012
• Introduction to Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio Ultimate 2012
• Branching and Merging Visualization with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012
• Debugging with IntelliTrace using Visual Studio Ultimate 2012
• Using Code Analysis with Visual Studio 2012 to Improve Code Quality
• Understanding Class Coupling with Visual Studio Ultimate 2012
• Code Discovery using the Architecture Tools in Visual Studio Ultimate 2012
• Using the Architecture Explorer in Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 to Analyze Your Code
• Introduction to Web Performance and Load Testing with Visual Studio Ultimate 2012

TFS - Continuous actionable Feedback

In any project, it is very crucial to understand and capture requirements from users, which can then be implemented. With new Visual Studio 2012, it has set of very handy tools to rapidly storyboard your requirements, and - as your software evolves - get rich, actionable feedback from users and need necessary changes / modifications. In the past, one need to use some third party tools to do these tasks. Now, it is all build in part of the TFS itself.

 

Manage your workitems via KANBAN Board!

Kanban board is a visual project management tool to visualize the work items, plan, prioritize and monitor the current velocity. Obviously if you visualize the work items as below, it will give more clarity and easy to maintain/ manage the work items. It will clearly give you who is working on what, what is the status of each work items, ensuring limited items assigned, work in progress, how much we completed etc. It is not only help in understanding the current status of work items and also control/manage the work flow meaning you can simply drap and drop from one section to another. The real value is all these productive tools part of Team Foundation Service / TFS 2012.

With Kanban board, you can easily track your work item progress on the task board with real-time capacity charting. You can easily drag n’ drop as needed. I can't wait how this tool going to evolve in the upcoming updates!

 

For more information:

https://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/learn/collaborate/view-your-kanban-board/

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