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You can have the best coders in the world working in your teams, but if your project management isn´t up to scratch, your project is almost certain to be delayed, to come in over budget, and in some cases to fail entirely. By taking precise control of your application development process, you can make changes, both large and small, throughout your project´s life cycle that will lead to better quality finished products that are consistently delivered on time and within budget.

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is an area of rapidly growing interest within the development community. Because its techniques allow you to deal with the process of developing applications across many areas of responsibility and across many different disciplines, its effects on your project can be wide ranging and pronounced. It is a project management tool that has practical implications for the whole team from architects to designers, from developers to testers.

Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 focuses on the most powerful ALM tool available for the Microsoft .NET Framework: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. It demonstrates the key concepts and techniques of ALM at first with a guide to the overall methodology, and then delves into architecture and testing--illustrating all of the concepts, tips and tricks using the tools TFS provides. The book serves as a complete guide to the ALM style--with no fluff and many relevant code samples and examples.

After reading the book, you will understand how TFS can be used to generate continuous meaningful reporting on your project´s health for the decision makers on your team as well as for your project´s sponsors.

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Why Application Lifecycle Management Matters
Introduction to Application Lifecycle Management
Development Processes and Frameworks
ALM Assessments
Working with TFS to Enhance the ALM Process
Introduction to Agile Planning
Work Item Tracking and Process Customization
Agile Project Management with TFS
Metrics and ALM Assessment
Prototyping/Storyboarding + Feedback Tracking
Top Down Design Studies (UML)
Using Architecture Explorer
Using Layer Diagrams
Metrics and ALM Assessment
Version Control
Unit Testing
Code Analysis, Code Metrics, Code Clones, Code Review
Performance and Profiling
Metrics and ALM Assessment
Overview of Software Testing
Manual Testing
Automated Testing
Test Lab Management
Metrics and ALM Assessment
Continuous Delivery
Build Automation
Deployment
Release Management
Metrics and ALM Assessment
Architecture, Implementation and Planning
Installation, Migration and Administration
TFS Reporting
Working in Heterogeneous Environments
TFS in the Cloud

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strong/strong strongJoachim Rossberg /stronghas worked as an IT consultant since 1998. He is primarily a scrum master and project manager but has an extensive history as a system developer/designer. He has demonstrated his technical background with various achievements over the years: MCSD, MCDBA, MCSA, and MCSE. His specialties include project management, ALM process, and Team Foundation Server. Joachim is now working for Know IT Consulting in Gothenburg, Sweden. p

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