2 New Books: Pro ALM with Visual Studio 2012, and Pro TFS 2012

I can finally talk about the two new books I have been working on!

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 covers the full breadth of ALM capabilities available in Visual Studio 2012, Team Foundation Server 2012, and related technologies. This book has something for the entire extended development team – whether you are a project manager, software developer, software tester, architect, manager, or a jack of all trades. Topics covered include:

• Software development (version control, code review, unit testing, code clone analysis, debugging with IntelliTrace, profiling, suspending and resuming work, and much more)
• Software testing (Microsoft Test Manager, Web & Load testing, Coded UI testing, Lab Management)
• Software architecture (Architecture Explorer, Dependency Graph Generation, UML modeling, Layer Diagrams)
• Project Management (Agile planning & tracking, process templates, reporting)
• Stakeholder engagement (PowerPoint Storyboarding, Microsoft Feedback Client)
• Team Foundation Server 2012 (Installing, Configuring, Team Build, Branching & Merging)
• And much, much more…

Professional Team Foundation Server 2012 dives deeper into Team Foundation Server 2012 and is intended for anybody who needs to install, administer, or perform advanced configuration tasks with Team Foundation Server 2012:

• Installation
• Configuration
• Topologies
• Backup
• Disaster Recovery
• Customization and Extensibility
• And much more…

These books are the follow-up books to the 2010 editions of these titles (which you can still order here and here). The 2012 books have been more than 50% revised to include changes and additions in the 2012 release.

Both of the 2012 books are available for pre-order now, and are expected to release in the next few months:

• Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012
• Professional Team Foundation Server 2012

These books are a collaborative effort between myself and my awesome co-authors: Mickey Gousset, Ed Blankenship, Martin Woodward, and Grant Holliday. Together we make up Microsoft employees and Visual Studio ALM MVP’s with a combined total of more than 30 years working in the ALM space with tools such as Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.

Thank you to everyone who bought the 2010 books. Your support, feedback, and encouragement made it an easy decision to invest the time and energy into these new editions. I hope you will enjoy them!