Professional Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2010 -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Shipping Software -- What Do You Need to Ship Software? -- Vision -- Insight -- Resources -- Planning -- Product Features -- Approaches to Project Management -- Scrum -- Microsoft Solutions Framework -- The Waterfall Method -- Comparing Methodologies -- Product Definition -- Adaptability -- Scheduling -- People -- Documentation -- Project Duration -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Organizing a Scrum Team -- Scrum Roles -- The ScrumMaster -- The Product Owner -- Team Members -- Scaling a Scrum Team -- Team Specialization -- The Scrum of Scrums Meeting -- The Product Backlog -- Sprint Synchronization -- Common Architecture -- Comparing MSF and Scrum -- The Product Manager -- The Program Manager -- The Development Manager -- Quality Assurance Manager -- The Training Manager -- Release Management -- IT Roles in Scrum -- The Project Manager -- The Architect -- Release Management -- The QA Manager -- Transitioning to Scrum -- Increasing User Involvement -- Decreasing Documentation -- Simplifying the Schedule -- Finding Problems Earlier -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Tracking What's Important in Team Foundation Server -- Understanding Your Data in TFS -- Reporting Capabilities in TFS -- Choosing Scrum -- Scrum Artifacts -- The Product Backlog -- The Sprint Backlog -- The Sprint Burndown -- The Release Burndown -- Scrum Activities -- The Release Planning Meeting -- Backlog Grooming -- The Sprint -- The Sprint Planning Meeting -- The Daily Scrum -- The Sprint Review -- The Sprint Retrospective -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Getting Started with the TFS Scrum Template -- Getting Started with the Scrum Template -- Downloading and Installing the Scrum Template -- Importing the Scrum Template into TFS -- Creating a New PBI -- Understanding Releases.

The Release Planning Meeting -- Acceptance Criteria -- Other PBI-Related Information -- Planning Poker -- The Release Burndown Chart -- The Release Goal -- The Importance of Shipping Software -- The Importance of Quality -- Ensuring Repeatability -- Understanding Sprints -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Work Items, Queries, and Reports -- Work Items -- The Area Path and Iteration Path Fields -- Product Backlog Items -- Tasks -- Sprints -- Impediments -- Bugs -- Test Cases -- Shared Steps -- Work Item Queries -- Query Types -- Work Item Queries -- Reports -- Scrum Reports -- Engineering Reports -- Building Custom Reports -- Summary -- Chapter 6: The Product Backlog -- Managing the Product Backlog -- Creating and Prioritizing PBIs -- Choosing a Tool for Creating PBIs -- The PBI Workflow -- Prioritizing PBIs -- Documenting PBIs -- Linking Artifacts: PBIs, Tasks, and Bugs -- Linking PBIs to Test Cases -- Linking PBIs to Bugs -- Linking Bugs to PBIs -- Linking Bugs to Test Cases -- Linking PBIs to Tasks -- Linking Tasks to PBIs -- Linking Tasks to Bugs -- Using the Unfinished Work Query -- Understanding Impediments -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Tracking Quality -- Knowing What to Measure -- Tracking and Resolving Bugs and Tasks -- The Workflow for Resolving Bugs -- Entering Bugs -- Viewing the Bug List -- The Workflow for Tasks -- Entering Tasks -- The Unfinished Work Query -- Test Cases -- Acceptance Criteria in a PBI -- Defining Test Cases -- Using Microsoft Test Manager to Define Test Plans -- Organizing Test Plans -- Organizing Test Suites -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Running a Release -- Creating a Release -- Developing the Product Backlog -- Creating User Stories -- Tasks -- Verifying That You Have a SharePoint Portal -- Entering PBIs -- Entering PBIs in Excel -- Entering PBIs Using the SharePoint Portal -- Entering PBIs Using Visual Studio.

Product Backlog and User Story Success and Failure Patterns -- Product Backlog and User Story Success Patterns -- Product Backlog and User Story Failure Patterns -- Linking User Stories and Tasks -- PBI Reports -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Running a Sprint -- Creating Sprints -- Working with PBIs -- The Sprint Planning Meeting -- How the Product Owner Works with PBIs -- How a Scrum Team Works with PBIs -- Measuring the Velocity of a Scrum Team -- Using Story Points to Determine Velocity -- How to Calculate Velocity Based on Story Points -- Testing Your Understanding of Velocity -- The Velocity Report -- Tracking Burndown -- Calculating Burndown by Hand -- The Sprint Burndown Chart Report -- Working with Bugs -- Creating a Bug Workflow -- Creating Backlog Items from Bugs -- Tracking Bugs -- Bug Reports -- Summary -- Chapter 10: The Retrospective -- Common Practices Related to Retrospectives -- Answering "What Worked?" -- Answering "What Didn't Work?" -- Answering "What Will We Do Differently?" -- Scrum Template Support for the Three Retrospective Questions -- How to Answer the "What Worked?" Question -- How to Answer the "What Didn't Work?" Question -- How to Answer the "What Will We Do Differently?" Question -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Improving Scrum by Using Spikes -- What Is a Spike? -- Types of Spikes -- Spikes Between Sprints -- Spikes During a Sprint -- Executing a Spike -- Code Quality -- Architectural Slices -- Summary -- Appendix A: Working with Scrum Assessments -- Using Assessment Templates -- Assessing the Daily Scrum -- Assessing the Demo -- Assessing the Retrospective -- Assessing the Planning Meeting -- A Sample Assessment -- Planning Meeting Assessment -- Daily Scrum Assessment -- Demo Meeting Assessment -- Retrospective Meeting Assessment -- Working with Checklists -- A Checklist for the Product Owner -- A Checklist for the ScrumMaster.

Appendix B: References -- Index.