Managing Projects with Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System

Chapter 6. Improving Your Process

In this chapter:
Improving your Processes and Teams
The Story of Process Improvement for Humongous Insurance
Summary

• Establish the key principles of a lightweight process improvement framework.

• Create a lightweight process improvement framework.

Improving your Processes and Teams

Up until this point, this book has focused on how to manage projects with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. Managing projects, however, also involves fine-tuning the way you develop software so that it can adapt to changing teams, technologies, tools, and processes. This chapter discusses that process of fine-tuning, which involves understanding and reflecting upon lessons learned—those best practices your team will naturally uncover as they ...