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Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (Developer Reference) 1st Edition

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Discover how to turn requirements into working software increments—faster and more efficiently—using Visual Studio 2012 in combination with Scrum and Agile engineering practices. Designed for software development teams, this guide delivers pragmatic, role-based guidance for exploiting the capabilities of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. Team members will learn proven practices and techniques for implementing Scrum to manage an application’s life cycle, as well as seamlessly plan, manage, and track their Scrum projects.

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    978-0735657984
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    1st
  4. Publisher
    Microsoft Press
  5. Publication date
    October 15, 2012
  6. Part of series
    Developer Reference
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    7.48 x 0.86 x 9.06 inches
  9. Print length
    380 pages
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Richard is the president of Accentient, a company that helps software development teams understand and leverage Application Lifecycle Management and Scrum tools and practices. He has over 30 years of software development experience and over 20 years of training experience. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, Visual Studio ALM MVP, and author of several books and courses, including Microsoft's Professional Scrum Developer program. Richard grew up in southern Idaho, lived in Germany for a couple of years, and moved back to Boise in 2001. He enjoys playing soccer, writing code, and being a husband and father of five.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 073565798X
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microsoft Press; 1st edition (October 15, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 380 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780735657984
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735657984
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.47 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.48 x 0.86 x 9.06 inches
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Richard helps software organizations and teams deliver better products by understanding and leveraging Azure DevOps and Scrum. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer, Professional Scrum Developer, and co-creator of the Nexus Scaled Scrum framework. As a software developer and consultant with over 30 years of experience, he understands that software is built and delivered by people and not by processes or tools.

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John Berry
5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I needed
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2013
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Richard's book reads extremely well. It is also just the right amount of detail and specifics, making it not too short, not too long. I am experienced in many technical aspects but am still young in my software development career. The company that recently employed me is utilizing Visual Studio without Team Foundation Server. The project I was given was to launch a new engineering CAD application. I knew there had to be a better way of developing than the traditional software development life cycle. I was granted permission to launch a completely separate development team from our existing software products and have done so with TFS. The methodologies of Scrum, and Agile development in general, fit right along with my personal preference in coding.

The details of how to utilize Scrum with Visual Studio and TFS within this book have allowed me to become the model of future development within my company, launching not only my career, but also a strong future for my development group. This book has explained to me a lot of the details that I could not have received from any of my colleagues. Now I am the one teaching my senior colleagues how we will best provide our customers with the latest in engineering CAD software.

Thank you Richard.
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Rafael Soares
1.0 out of 5 stars Not a technical guide.
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2014
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This book lacks the HOW. It's a mix of Scrum theory and WHAT to do in Visual Studio to accomplish it, but the HOW is not present.

There's no code samples, no sample project and it's very hard for any beginner to get a grip on it, it's like a book to scrum developers learn what VS2012 has to offer, nothing more.

It's kind of useless, since the author don't teach how to do stuff most of the time, he just say, go to that place and do this.
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D. K.
2.0 out of 5 stars Ivory Tower introduction
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2013
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I think author hates the world. He doesn't really care if there are other points of view - everything that contradicts with his beliefs is "evil" and "wrong" and "stupid". It would be a nice book, if rewritten by someone reasonable.
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J. Houwing
5.0 out of 5 stars Not just theory, but also a lot of pragmatism and practice mixed with humor and real-world examples
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2013
I've taken my Professional Scrum Developer training from Richard last December, just around the time his book was released. And I must say that Richard's knowledge on both the theroreticalities *and* the practicalities of Scrum is exceptional. This is well reflected in his book.

There is a very nice mix of theory, process and technology as well as the all important human side to software development. Given that there are so many open source tools, add-ons and other libraries that can help implementing Scrum and extend Visual Studio, you will not find a lot of in-depth discussion on the non-Microsoft solutions, but Richard does provide enough information to know where to look for more information and to have an idea of what's out there.

The first couple of chapters go into the theory of scrum and the practice without the use of tools. These chapters are great for any reader, both management, developer or just stakeholder to learn more about the process when applied to general (.NET) development.

Then the planning elements are discussed, both from the Web Access, Excel, Test Manager and other tooling point of view. These topics are still great for any reader, as long as they use TFS once in a while.

Then there are a number of chapters that dive into the tools and technology. Richard discusses the Visual Studio features that help any Agile team, Test Driven Development in general and Continuous Integration and Deployment.

The last chapters dive into the hardest part of scrum, continuous improvement, inspect and adapt and the general prevention of flaccid scrum. These chapters are important for everyone who has been doing scrum for a while and wants to up their game. As well as for teams starting out with scrum so that they know what they might expect on their path towards a high performing scrum team.

I really like the balance between real world examples, humor, tips and tricks and short side steps that provide additional perspectives from other Professional Scrum Developers, Masters and Trainers. There is not just one way to become a high performing scrum developer. We're all on our own journey towards continuous improvement. This book is great to bring along for the ride.
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Aaron Corcoran
5.0 out of 5 stars Scrumptious
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2012
As a Scrum geek, I really enjoyed this book. While I am no longer a hands-on developer, I am a certified ScrumMaster and work with teams in the Microsoft stack. Utilizing my existing knowledge of Scrum, combined with Richard's expertise in both Scrum and ALM utilizing VS/TFS 2012, this book came together in one wonderful symphony. It was easy to read, easy to comprehend (much like Scrum), and provides prescriptive, easy to implement steps on how to run your project utilizing the Microsoft's ALM products. So as mentioned, this book is not just for the hands-on developer, but extremely beneficial to anyone on the "development team" (by Scrum definition).

While there are similar books for TFS 2010, the refresh for 2012 is quite nice, as there are some major enhancements. Richard does a great job at utilizing these enhancements and pulling them all together in this collection.

Aaron Corcoran
CSP, CSM, CSPO
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Ryan Cromwell, Sr
5.0 out of 5 stars Tips, advice, and anecdotes for every team
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2013
Richard easily had another book in his back pocket filled with tips, advice and anecdotes on both Scrum and Visual Studio 2012. Instead, we can all appreciate Richard's commentary while learning how to best leverage Visual Studio & Team Foundation Server 2012 with the Scrum framework. I now recommend this book not only for teams just getting started with the Scrum & VS pairing, but also as a reference for those continuous improvement experiments experienced teams choose during their Retrospective.
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