ALM: Define
Plan and scope your project for success.
Establish a clear process for collaboration with your users and stakeholders to deliver the right product.
Third-party products and solutions that integrate with Visual Studio 2012 are available to help your team plan and scope your project for success.
Use the right tools to define software requirements
The best way to ensure delivery of the right product is to establish a clear process for collaboration with your users and stakeholders. Early and frequent iterations lead to a sharper definition of goals and deliverables. Additionally, scoping software deliverables as small, incremental batches, rather than one big product at the end, can lead to efficiencies in delivery and communication. To do all of this effectively, you need the right tools to express, validate, and capture actionable design ideas.
Business challenges
- Capturing clear and actionable requirements
- Delivered software fails to meet user and stakeholder expectations
- Missed opportunities due to long release cycles
Solutions
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Choosing the right tool to capture requirements:
- Visual storyboarding
- Prototyping
- Modeling
- Requirements documents
- Specifications
- Smaller batches, faster releases
- Continuous feedback
Business value
- Reduced requirements definition cycle time
- Faster software delivery time
- High stakeholder and user satisfaction
Featured success story
The Team Foundation Server (TFS) development team supported their agile adoption with Team Foundation Server 2012’s agile planning tools, dramatically improving productivity, reducing schedule risk, and substantially improving code quality.
