TFS 2018 — Lesson 4: ALM Operations and Production Readiness

Lesson Overview

This 10 hours lesson develops practical knowledge of ALM Operations and Production Readiness within TFS 2018.

The lesson connects concepts to implementation decisions, evidence collection, troubleshooting, and measurable validation.

Learning Objectives

Connect planning, code, build, testing, release, reporting, and operational ownership
Validate availability, recoverability, capacity, security, monitoring, and support processes
Produce a prioritized ALM platform improvement and lifecycle roadmap

Detailed Topics

Connect planning: Connect planning, code, build, testing, release, reporting, and operational ownership
Validate availability: Validate availability, recoverability, capacity, security, monitoring, and support processes
Produce a prioritized ALM platform improvement and lifecycle roadmap: Produce a prioritized ALM platform improvement and lifecycle roadmap

Guided Demonstration

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

Hands-On Activity

Complete a production-readiness assessment and TFS operations plan.

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 ALM Operations and Production Readiness in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.