Tuesday, 3 September 2013  Agile - Start with paper walls
Clients often come to me to ask how they should set up their
instance of TFS ALM so that it will reflect their software
development lifecycle.  My usual response is a question: What is
your software development lifecycle?  Now, that is actually
quite difficult to answer for most developers and development
team managers.  Most people either say waterfall or agile.  It
is rarely waterfallers who are asking for more process or tools.
It is usually the neo-agilistas who want imposed structure .
Everyone is doing agile or they did it once and it didn't work.
There are many tools out there promising to agilify your
software development "process".  They will promise that it
doesn't matter what standard your developers are at because the
tool will raise them up.  They will promise that it doesn't
matter if all you've ever done is waterfall with an avalanche of
specifications and documentation because you can just stop doing
that.  They will promise that if y