Project Initiation and MSF

Many organizations do not view project initiation activities as part of the project at all. In fact, the end result of project initiation usually marks the beginning of the project or no project at all if the project charter is rejected. With this in mind, it is entirely possible that you may not use Visual Studio Team System at all during project initiation. In fact, your team will probably start using Visual Studio Team System only when the project has been given the green light and the project team is ready to begin collaborating.

As we mentioned in Chapter 2, one of the strengths of Visual Studio Team System is its ability to adapt to virtually any software development life cycle model. Out of the box, Microsoft provides ...

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