Managing Projects with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team System - Softcover

Get the practical reference for using Visual Studio Team System in your software development lifecycle—and maximize project success. Designed for software project managers, this book offers straightforward product information and expert insights for collaborating with architects, developers, and testers in one integrated development environment.

Discover how to use Team System to:

• Support key activities from the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK)
• Set up your team project using Microsoft Solutions Framework process templates
• Manage project activities, requirements, and risks
• Monitor and control scope, cost, schedule, and quality
• Customize role-based work items, queries, reports, and iterations
• Create a process improvement framework and fine-tune development efforts
• Plus—Learn details of Agile development and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

Joel Semeniuk is a Microsoft Regional Director with more than a decade of software project management experience. He has worked with Visual Studio Team System since its early development. Joel is the author of two other books on programming software and he blogs regularly about Visual Studio Team System.

Martin Danner, Microsoft Solutions Architect Most Valuable Professional, is an expert on process methodologies and project management with more than 20 years of experience. He worked as a consultant during development of Visual Studio and helped create the Microsoft Official Curriculum for Visual Studio Team System.