Project Management Scenario Frame

Index

• Areas and Iterations
• Check-in Policies
• Process Templates
• Security Groups and Permissions
• Team Projects
• Work Items

Areas and Iterations

• Project manager uses iterations to manage work over time
• Project manager uses areas to organize work

Check-in Policies

• Development lead sets up check-in policies to enforce coding standards
• Development lead sets up check-in policies to enforce code quality
• Development lead sets up check-in policies to ensure each check-in is associated with a work item
• Development lead is notified when a developer bypasses a check-in policy

Process Templates

• Project manager uses MSF Agile to create a new project
• Project manager uses MSF CMMI to create a new project
• Project manager customizes an existing process template to meet his team’s needs
• Project manager only wants to use TFS source control, not reporting or work items

Project Management

• Project manager uses Microsoft Project to manage the project
• Project manager uses Microsoft Excel to manage the project
• Project manager sets up a reporting dashboard
• Project manager removes a project from TFS
• Developer in notified when a check-in occurs

Security Groups and Permissions

• Project manager creates security groups that map to roles on the team
• Project member assigns team members to the appropriate security group

Team Projects

• Development team chooses one team project vs. multiple team projects
• Development team structures their source control tree to support branching and merging

Work Items

• Development team captures product vision
• Development team capture requirements
• Development team captures user scenarios
• Development team captures features
• Development team captures tasks
• Development team organizes tasks into iterations
• Development team tracks work completion during an iteration
• Development team links requirements, tasks and scenarios for traceability of work
• Project manager bulk edits a large number of work items