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Recently I was sent an email asking me for some advice on using TFS with the scrum for team systems plug-in for managing testing tasks and defect tracking on an agile project. I thought the answers might be useful to others, so I have posted them here:Basically I want to use VSTS / TFS (with the Conchango template) to manage functional testing as ...

Within an agile project one of the most important tasks to manage effectively in order to ensure delivery of functionality by the end of the sprint is that of raising, managing and resolving defects in a timely and efficient manner. Outstanding defects can hold up the release of functionality to the business, denying them of the benefit of this ...

Minimising the Bug Debt - A question of size I think most people would agree that on a real world development project of any scale, bugs will exist. Apply all the best practices in the world in the shape of unit testing and automated functional testing but there will be bugs. Minimising the size of the debt that is allowed to accrue is ...

Managing Bugs in an Agile Project - Agile debt collection Previously I spoke of the bug debt and how, over the course of a project, bugs will arise and will either be handled immediately or held over to be completed “at a later date”. In order to maintain the concept where you are only ever a single iteration away from shippable, ...

Musings on the meaning of "potentially shippable" One of the mandates of Scrum, and a mainstay of Agile processes in general is the concept that every sprint or development iteration should produce potentially shippable code. In essence this is taken to mean that the day after any sprint is completed the fruits of the teams labour can ...