Managing Projects with Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System

Chase’s Planning Story

If there is one thing Chase has learned over the years, it’s that you can’t build great software without great requirements. To emphasize this, Chase calls a meeting with his entire team along with key stakeholders of Humongous Insurance. During this meeting, Chase talks about how requirements form the foundation for everything that follows. Every estimate and every line of code needs to be derived from good requirements. The team is about to embark upon planning activities, and Chase wants to ensure that requirements, not technology, are their focus because without good requirements, the possibility of producing a good plan is remote. Chase tells his team that a good plan involves the entire team and that he expects everyone ...