Application Lifecycle Management Using Visual Studio 2010 (CMMI)

    

Summary:
This three-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to effectively use the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools found in Visual Studio 2010. The course focuses on teaching project managers, architects, .NET developers, SQL Server developers, testers and release managers the various ALM features and capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010. Hands-on activities will use the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement v5.0 process template where applicable.

Duration:
3 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is intended for current software development professionals, including project managers, architects, database professionals, software developers, testers and release managers who are involved in building Windows or web applications. Regardless of the student's role, he or she will be able to learn and get hands-on experience with all of the role-based features of Visual Studio 2010.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Team Projects
• Process Templates and Work Items
• Version Control
• Modeling the Application
• Agile Database Development
• Writing Quality Code
• Testing the Application
• Team Foundation Build

Prerequisites:
Before attending this course, the student should have experience working on a team-based software development project and be familiar with their organization's Application Lifecycle Management process and tools. Additionally, students should:
Have played one or more roles in the software development lifecycle
Have familiarity with the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Have familiarity with distributed application design (i.e. client/server, web, n-tier, etc.)
Have used Visual Studio
Be comfortable reading and understanding business requirements
Can read and understand C# .NET code (all source code will be provided)
Understand Microsoft Windows operating system and security basics

Last Update: May 20, 2012