Managing Projects with Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System

Getting Started by Creating a Project Workbook

Project managers like lists. Lists keep you focused and consistent, and checking items off your list when your team accomplishes a task feels good. Visual Studio Team System does a great job with lists, as we observed in previous chapters when we learned about work items and work item queries. Using Visual Studio Team System, you can maintain lists of tasks, risks, bugs, issues, and requirements, and because of the customizable nature of work items, you can literally create lists of just about anything you like. The work item queries help you organize our lists to facilitate our quick finding and manipulation of information. Most project managers, however, do not necessarily work with Visual Studio ...