How Microsoft Does Development (with VSTS)
This morning I am in Las Vegas giving one of the keynotes for VSLive! The conference organizers thought it would be really cool to talk about how Microsoft does development with VSTS.
I get a ton of questions about this and I also know I like to pick up decks and demos from some talks, so I posted both the deck and the demos from this morning.
Diana Kumar, who actually manages a big chunk of our internal deployments, did all the live demos. Several were off our production servers - so, since we can't give you the source :) she built you guys some really cool Camtasia recordings with voice overs so you can follow along.
Deck: How Microsoft Does Development with VSTS
Demo 1: Shutting down the VS 2008 Release + New 2010 Reports
Demo 2: Agile Planning/Tracking and Excel Reporting in VSTS 2010
The talk covers both development in the product teams and also our own IT department. We covered a bunch of topics:
- Requirements Traceability in MSIT
- Top Metrics that MSIT tracks
- Trustworthy Transparency – allowing teams to innovate w/o losing central control
- Branching Strategies
- Driving Quality: Builds
- Driving Quality/Predictability: Development Process
Here’s a couple of thumbnails of the real reports from shutting down VS 2008 that Diana showed in her demos:
Hope the deck and demos are useful.
Thanks!
Steph