1 Visual Studio Online for Cost Effective Code and Project Management Ravi Gudlavalleti

2 Poll  Do you use source control for all BI development?  If so, what tools do you use?

3 Agenda  What is Visual Studio Online?  Licensing, Pricing and Account types  Features for Code Management  Features for Agile Project Management  Demo  Q&A – (anytime is fine)  Links & Contact Info

4 What is Visual Studio Online?

5 Licensing, Pricing and User Types  Ability to add and remove users as needed  Only pay for number of active users  MSDN subscribers and stakeholders are excluded from the count  Will work with Active Directory

6 Support, SLA and other considerations  99.9% uptime. Service credits if SLA not met.  Data can be stored in local data centres to increase performance or for compliance.  Enterprise grade security. Https connection  You own the code  Hybrid solution of VSO plus on-prem build and deployments

7 Code Management Features and Tools  Source Control – Git & TFVC  Code review and compare online  Branching, Merging, Shelving  Cross platform and multiple language development  Continuous Integration or scheduled builds  Create and execute tests  Release Management

8 Agile Management Tools  Supports Agile, Scrum project templates  Work item, bug and test case tracking and assignments  Sprint management  Resource capacity planning  Lots of charts and report such as Burn down rates, Outstanding items, etc.  PowerBI, SharePoint & Excel hooks

9 Demo

10 Demo Topics  Account Overview User Management Team Chat Room  Create a New Project Version control option  Agile Management Backlog and Sprint Planning  Code Management View code and compare versions Shelve changes  Build Management Build Definition Scheduling Builds Logs and Artifacts  Analytics and Dashboards Power BI Excel

11 Q&A

12 Links, Contact Information   Feature timeline -  Training, Videos, etc  Blogs  FAQs - Ravi Gudlavalleti Sr. BI Architect Anexinet