For those that are into SDLC and ALM, here you have a fantastic guide. No matter what size business you have, customers now expect features such as real-time customer service and frequent releases.

The goal of this guide and HOLs is to provide you an excellent guide to the principles and practices of continuous delivery.

By continuous delivery, we mean that through techniques such as versioning, continuous integration, automation, and environment management, you will be able to decrease the time between when you first have an idea and when that idea is realized as software that’s in production. 

You will find this book an indispensable resource:

PDF and epub: Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012
Kindle (Mobi): Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012
Paperback versión (Amazon): Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012

– Happy planning! –

References:

Community: https://tig.codeplex.com/