Team Foundation Server 2015 Advanced Training
Upgrade, extend, integrate and administer TFS 2015 and plan its move to a supported Azure DevOps platform. Learn Team Foundation Server 2015 through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Team Foundation Server 2015 levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Team Foundation Server 2015 Advanced Training.
Understand where Team Foundation Server 2015 fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Team Foundation Server 2015 is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Team Foundation Server 2015 program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private Team Foundation Server 2015 training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Team Foundation Server 2015 training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Team Foundation Server 2015 usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | Team Foundation Server 2015 Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Team Foundation Server 2015 training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Plan work with agility
Run backlogs, Kanban boards, sprints and dashboards for real teams in TFS 2015.
Build and test continuously
Use Git policies, pull requests, the new build system and test plans to ship with quality.
Administer and extend TFS
Upgrade, secure, back up, extend and integrate TFS and plan its modernisation.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Team Foundation Server 2015 responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Team Foundation Server 2015 matters
- Team Foundation Server 2015 helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Team Foundation Server 2015 becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Team Foundation Server 2015 effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Team Foundation Server 2015 concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Team Foundation Server 2015 in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Team Foundation Server 2015 for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Team Foundation Server 2015 usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Team Foundation Server 2015.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: TFS 2015 overview, features and installationDay 1
- Introduction to TFS 2015: ALM capabilities, architecture and on-premises deployment
- Understanding the feature path from TFS 2013: overview and the TFS 2013 update timeline
- Agile tools: backlogs, boards and sprints at a glance
- Git in TFS: Git improvements, Git CodeLens and pull requests
- Testing features: test hub and test plan improvements at a glance
- Installing and configuring TFS 2015: install options (basic, standard, advanced) and prerequisites
- SQL Server and accounts: data tier requirements and service accounts
- Web access tour: projects, teams and the Code, Work, Build and Test hubs
- Team projects and collections: creating a project and choosing the Agile, Scrum or CMMI process
- First work items: user stories, tasks and bugs
Essential Level = Foundation + Kanban, backlogs, sprints and dashboardsDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Portfolio management: epics, features and backlog levels
- Product backlog: ordering, sizing and forecasting
- Kanban board: columns, WIP limits, split columns and definition of done
- Kanban swimlanes: lanes for expedited work and working with tasks on cards
- Customisations: the cumulative flow diagram, working days and bugs on the backlog
- Productivity: reusable pre-filled work items and quick search
- Sprint planning: capacity planning, sprint planning and sprint progress with burndown
- Tracking work: queries, charts and alerts
- Dashboards: creating and working with team dashboards and widgets
- Teams, areas and iterations: team settings, area paths and iteration paths
- Project rename: renaming a team project and its impact on clients
Intermediate Level = Essential + Git workflows, new build system and testingDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Version control enhancements: Git branching enhancements and working with Git branches
- Git rebase: rebasing vs merging with a rebase demo
- Git branch policies: configuring policies, creating a pull request and resolving branch policy issues
- Quick code edit: editing code directly in the web portal
- Building software: the new build system, configuring a build agent and build capabilities
- Build definitions: creating a definition, running a build and viewing results
- Build customisation: build steps, test results, multiple configurations and parallel builds
- Build triggers and demands: continuous integration and pull request builds, capabilities and demands
- Build definition history: comparing changes and reusable starting definitions for new builds
- Testing software: Test hub, test plans, test suites and test cases including the grid view
- Reusing test steps: shared steps, test parameters and shared parameters
- Running tests: the test runner, test run analysis and exporting test plans
- Exploratory testing extension: installing it and reviewing exploratory testing results
- Kanban integration: creating test cases from the Kanban board
Advanced Level = Intermediate + Upgrades, extensions, APIs and administrationDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Upgrading to TFS 2015: the TFS pre-upgrade tool, pre-upgrade process and upgrading TFS 2013 to 2015 Update 2
- Verifying the upgrade: post-upgrade checks, collection status and enabling new features
- Integrating with TFS 2015: Marketplace, installing, working with and managing extensions
- Creating extensions: the extension manifest and creating, packaging and installing an extension
- TFS 2015 API: REST API authentication and querying work items and builds programmatically
- Service hooks: integrating with chat, CI and other services on TFS events
- Administration: collection and project permissions, groups and security practices
- Backup and restore: scheduled backups, restoring collections and disaster recovery
- Process customisation: changing work item types with witadmin and the XML process model
- Release Management in TFS 2015 Update 2: web-based release definitions and environments
- Modernisation: planning the upgrade to Azure DevOps Server or migration to Azure DevOps Services
- Capstone: an end-to-end ALM flow from backlog to pull request, build, test and release
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Team Foundation Server 2015 levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Install TFS and create a project
Install TFS 2015 with SQL Server, create a project collection and a Git-based team project and add the first user stories and tasks.
Run a sprint in TFS
Break epics into features and stories, configure Kanban columns and swimlanes, plan a sprint with capacity and publish a team dashboard with charts.
Pull request build and test plan
Protect the main branch with policies and a pull request build, then create a test plan with shared steps and parameters and run it against the build.
Extend and integrate TFS
Install and build a simple extension, wire a service hook to a chat channel and script a work item report through the REST API, then rehearse a backup and restore.
Team Foundation Server 2015 is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Team Foundation Server 2015 with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Team Foundation Server 2015 certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Team Foundation Server 2015 level.
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Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Team Foundation Server 2015 path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Team Foundation Server 2015 Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Team Foundation Server 2015 level fits your team.
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