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Agile Software Development With Azure DevOps

Course 1816

  • Duration: 3 days
  • Labs: Yes
  • Exam Voucher: Yes
  • Language: English
  • 17 PMI PDUs
  • Level: Intermediate
Get This Course $2,725
  • 3-day instructor-led training course
  • Earn 17 PMI PDUs
  • One-on-one after-course instructor coaching
  • Tuition can be paid later by invoice -OR- at the time of checkout by credit card
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    Jul 27 - 29 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
    New York or AnyWare
  • Nov 8 - 10 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
    Ottawa or AnyWare
  • Jan 18 - 20 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
    New York or AnyWare
  • May 3 - 5 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
    Ottawa or AnyWare

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In this Agile software development course you learn to manage an entire software project using Microsoft Team Foundation Server. You learn how to document work using features, backlog items, tasks and bugs, maintain source code with Team Foundation Version Control and Git, as well as monitor progress with backlogs, Kanban boards and burn-downs. You also gain hands-on experience automating testing and deployment with continuous integration.

  • Familiarity with Agile principles is helpful to the level of: Course 918, Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean & XP
  • Work experience using the iterative cycle and collaborative Agile spirit

  • This course uses Azure DevOps Server

Agile Software Development With Azure DevOps Delivery Methods

  • After-course instructor coaching benefit
  • Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
  • After-course computing sandbox included

Agile Software Development With Azure DevOps Course Benefits

  • Manage an entire software project using Microsoft Azure DevOps
  • Document work using features, backlog items, tasks and bugs
  • Monitor progress with backlogs, Kanban boards and burndowns
  • Automate testing and deployment with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)
  • Enhance team collaboration and craft higher quality software in less time using Azure DevOps
  • Perform check-in, check-out, branching, and merging of source code
  • Define build configurations that include unit tests and deployment
  • Estimate, prioritise, and schedule backlog items within sprints

Agile Software Development Course Outline

Overview of Agile methodologies

  • Agile
  • Scrum

Surveying Azure DevOps features

  • Team collaboration
  • Process templates
  • Version control
  • Automated builds
  • Integrated tests

Evaluating Azure DevOps editions

  • Choosing Azure DevOps Server vs. Azure DevOps Express
  • Comparing Azure DevOps Service vs Azure DevOps Server

Installing Azure DevOps

  • Planning an Azure DevOps installation
  • Creating collections with the administrative console
  • Managing project security and group membership with the Web control panel

Securing Azure DevOps projects

  • Assigning permissions to security groups
  • Adding users to teams and projects
  • Restricting user rights
  • Configuring user alerts

Creating projects for Azure DevOps

  • Comparing the built-in Scrum, CMMI and Agile process templates
  • Specifying source control
  • Customizing process templates

Mapping Azure DevOps and Agile process terms

  • Defining epics and user stories as Azure DevOps work items
  • Inputting features and backlog items
  • Estimating and prioritizing work items
  • Breaking backlog items into tasks

Organizing backlogs

  • Scheduling start and end dates for releases and Sprints
  • Assigning backlog items to iterations and team members
  • Recording work remaining and status
  • Monitoring team progress

Collaborating on code with Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) and Git

  • Selecting centralized vs. distributed version control
  • Synchronizing local repositories with the master repository
  • Viewing project history with changesets

Connecting to Azure DevOps from Visual Studio Team Explorer

  • Checking out and checking in source code
  • Merging changesets from multiple developers
  • Branching for release management and maintenance
  • Resolving multi-user conflicts
  • Adding existing code to Azure DevOps source control

Integrating version control with client applications

  • Plugging TFVC into Windows Explorer

Creating, running and automating builds

  • Defining and scheduling builds
  • Managing releases and deployments
  • Controlling build output

Crafting quality software through continuous testing

  • Integrating unit testing into builds
  • Leveraging Visual Studio code analysis and testing tools
  • Creating TFS test scripts for manual testing
  • Documenting and tracking bugs

Managing backlogs and querying Azure DevOps content

  • Assigning work to iterations
  • Querying and defining iteration backlogs
  • Visualizing work-in-progress with Kanban boards
  • Monitoring progress with burndown charts

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It is an approach to software development in which the intention is for requirements and solutions to evolve through the collaboration of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customers.

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