Wednesday, February 18, 2009

VSTS - Benefits to the Project Managers

The following are some benefits for the project managers: -

· Easy work item tracking: When team members check-in their work items into the version control, they can associate the changes that they have made with specific work items. The status of these work items is then reflected on the Project Portal. Work item association can be enforced via policies as well.

· Up-to-date information: Project Managers can get up-to-date information on which items on the project schedule are being worked on and when they are completed through familiar tools like Microsoft Project and Excel.

· Project Reports: Project Managers can view reports on work item status; build results; number of open bugs, closed bugs, and in-work bugs; and other information about the progress of the application through Microsoft SharePoint Services. Projects can be reported on by category, developer, deliverable, milestone, and so on. Project Managers can share reports with other stake holders of the project.

· Ad Hoc Reports: SSRS features an end-user ad-hoc report builder, so project managers can create their own reports or customize existing reports.

· Project Metrics: TFS offers a data warehouse of project-related metrics, ranging from defect trends, test results, and quality indicators to work complete, progress reports, and unplanned work reports.

· No daily status reports needed from team members: VSTS work item tracking system, version control system, reporting system mean that the team members no longer have to report daily status to the project manager - the project manager can just pull the data.

· Trend Analysis: VSTS data warehouse, allows an organization to mine the data for trends in the overall software development life cycle.

· Early identification of problems: VSTS allows problems to be caught early and solved quickly before they become serious issues that affect the schedule. These problems can range from developers not completing work on time to bugs in the code.

· Work analysis across multiple projects: VSTS also allows for the analysis of work across multiple projects.

· Predicting project schedules: It becomes simple to track the organization's project history and use that information to predict future project schedules.

· Single User interface: VSTS integrates all of the needed functionality, including a project management tool and reporting tool, directly into one interface.

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