27. Managing Agile Projects

IN THIS CHAPTER, we show you how to use the project management facilities in Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) so that you can import work items into your Team Project from Excel, define iterations, and generate reports to help you manage your project from the information stored about it in Team Foundation Server (TFS). We then describe the way a small Agile team might use these facilities over the course of an iteration, using the approach to estimating, prioritizing, and planning presented in the previous two chapters. The chapter then concludes with ten tips for managing an Agile project.

Using Visual Studio Team System for Project Management

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