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Addison.Wesley
By : Will stott, James NewKirk

Who Should Read This Book?

• People new to software development—Teaches you how to u VSTS and gives you the core skills you need in order to work etively on an Agile team. There are few assumptions about you technical background, but some knowledge of using Visual Studio will help when completing the exercises.
• Experienced developers—Puts what you already know into the context of an Agile project and explains how to make good use of the new tools provided by VSTS. People who are encountering Microsoft technology for the first time should find the exercises and glossary particularly useful.
• Architects—Explains the new VSTS tools for software architects, but its real value lies in helping you to adapt your skills so that you can add value to an Agile team.
• Testers—Helps you understand the expanded role of testers on an Agile team and explains how to use the basic VSTS tools needed to test software in this new Software Project environment.
• Business analysts and customers—Explains how an Agile approach can give your business a better return on investment. You’ll also learn how an Agile team works to make sure you get the software you want, when you need it.
• Project managers—Describes how to transition your people onto a small Agile team so that they can deliver better-quality software, in less time and for less cost. In addition, you’ll discover how VSTS gathers information about a project into one place to make the running of the project more transparent.
• Software entrepreneurs—Provides you with a road map for settingup a small, top-performing software team. It reveals the key technical and people issues you need to address through a series of anecdotes and comments gleaned from the decades we’ve spent working in the industry.