With the upcoming launch of TFS 2015, it's hard to keep track of all of the new features. This presentation is a quick synopsis of what has been added in the agile planning and testing space with the latest releases to TFS 2105 and VSO.

1. What’s new and cool for your agile teams!
Angela Dugan
Angela.Dugan@PolarisSolutions.com

2. Polaris Solutions ALM Practice Mgr since Jan ‘12
Been in the software industry since 1999
Runs the Chicago ALM User Group
ALM MVP, PSM, PSD, SPC
Has a *possibly* unhealthy love of Halloween
Shameless self promotion
Polaris Solutions- http://www.polarissolutions.com/
Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group - http://www.chicagoalmug.org/
Twitter: @OakParkGirl, @ChicagoALM, @TeamPolaris
Blog - http://www.tfswhisperer.com/

4. Buy your ticket before it sells out! https://www.thatconference.com/

5. What: TFS 2015 and some straight talk on TFS Git
Who: Ed Thomson, TFS Product Team
When: Thursday July 16th 2015
6:30PM: Food and networking
7:00PM: Presentation and demos
Where: Microsoft Chicago Office MPR
200 East Randolph, 2nd Floor
Chicago IL, 60601
Register: http://chicagoalmug.org/

6. What the heck is TFS anyway?
Why do I care about VSOnline?
Online Collaboration Tools – What’s New?
Testing Services – What’s New?
Build Services – What’s New?

8. VSO <> Visual Studio on the web. Sorry, it’s just not!
VSO includes the entire TFS portion of the VS ALM platform
hosted on Azure
You can leverage on-premise VS with TFS hosted in VSO
Now VSO offers build, load testing, and release management!
VSO services and Visual Studio can be licensed on a month-to-month
basis (cannot mix with standard VS/MSDN licensing)

9. VSO is super easy to setup
VSO is likely FREE for you, or at least really inexpensive
VSO receives feature updates every 3 weeks! (quarterly for on-prem)
But…
Template customization is a bit limited (in beta now)
VSO does not have SharePoint integration or OOB reporting*
VSO is reliant on Azure, not all companies are comfortable with that

10. The more you know! -- TFS 2010 Goes Out of Standard Support in July!

11. This week Brian Harry announced on his blog that TFS 2015
would be delayed.
“Our plan had been that the Release Candidate we shipped at the end of
April would be our last public pre-release and that mid-July would be our
RTM date. About a week ago, I made the decision to change the
plan. Instead, we are shipping a “Release Candidate 2” now and will
RTM as soon as we are ready after that.”

12.   
Visual Studio and all of the IDE components WILL still release on
July 20th.
You can install TFS 2015 RC 2 today and it will be fully supported
by Microsoft
VS 2015 and the other ALM IDEs released on July 20th are fully
compatible with TFS 2013
No, I don’t know when TFS 2015 is REALLY releasing and
neither does Brian, yet.

14. Drag and drop to reprioritize EVERYTHING
- Even hierarchal groups
- Even tasks
Un-parented stories do not disappear
New way to expand trees
Add new work item levels
Add bugs to your backlog with 1 click!

16. Drag and Drop to reprioritize – I KNOW!!!
New customization options for:
Columns
Swimlanes
Cards
Customize ALL THE THINGS
Team specific too!

19. Drag and drop to reprioritize EVERYTHING
- Even hierarchal groups
- Even tasks
Board customization
- Currently cards only but more is coming!

23. New Test Pane
- Test Details
- Test Suites
- Test Results
Share Test Artifacts (Print or email)
Assign test cases to testers
Shared Parameters
Test charts – for both test case and results
Support for automated tests in Build vNext

28. Build agents for Windows or XPlat
Build apps for Windows or Azure
Build Xcode apps for iOS
Build your GitHub-hosted projects in Visual Studio Online
Customize everything using scripts

29. No more freaking XAML!!
Old XAML builds still work, but require old build service
Parallel builds across multiple agents
Agents can span team project collections
Remote agents are xcopy (download from the web UI)  No
more TFS installs on your build machines
Automatic updates of build agents – both on-premises and VSO

31. Work item charting – longer trends and custom colors

32. Team Project Rename!
There’s a reason it took 10 years :-P

34. https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/release-archive-vso.aspx