May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
24h 18m
English
book
Professional Team Foundation Server 2013
by Steven St. Jean, Damian Brady, Ed Blankenship, Martin Woodward, Grant Holliday
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Chapter 28Working with Geographically Distributed Teams
What's in this chapter?
- Understanding the difficulties of a distributed development environment
- Getting to know Team Foundation Server Proxy
- Learning techniques for working with remote teams
- Dealing with build servers in a distributed environment
- Introducing Team Foundation Server Integration Tools
- Understanding how to be effective when the server is not available
The development of software by distributed teams is a growing trend. People are working in a global economy with greater competition and choice. There are many reasons you may be working with a distributed team, including the following:
- Your company has grown and expanded, and it has several field offices.
- Your company contracts out portions of development to third parties.
- Your company merged with another company and both companies must work interactively over great distances.
Even if you don't work in a distributed team, you may work in an environment whereby your server infrastructure is located at a different physical location. Following are a few examples:
- Your IT infrastructure is outsourced to another company—for example, using the Visual Studio Online hosted by Microsoft.
- Your development team is located in a different city from the main office to take advantage of skilled workers in that area.
- You have a mobile workforce that moves between offices and has no main office.
When you work with Team Foundation Server 2013 in this environment, there are ...
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