TFS 2018 — Lesson 2: Team Projects, Version Control, Work Items, and Build

Learning Objectives

• Create and administer team project collections, team projects, permissions, and process templates
• Use centralized or Git version control, branches, policies, merges, and repositories
• Configure work-item tracking, builds, agents, artifacts, and development workflows

Detailed Topics

• Create and administer team project collections: Create and administer team project collections, team projects, permissions, and process templates
• Use centralized or Git version control: Use centralized or Git version control, branches, policies, merges, and repositories
• Configure work-item tracking: Configure work-item tracking, builds, agents, artifacts, and development workflows

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Configure a team project with source control, work tracking, and a repeatable build.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Team Projects, Version Control, Work Items, and Build in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.