Global Outsourcing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Description

In this era of globalization, outsourcing has emerged as a key strategy not only for achieving competitive advantage but also for survival. However, despite widespread adoption, there are few practical guidelines in the market regarding how to optimally manage outsourced projects. Global Outsourcing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System teaches managers, developers, and SQA professionals how to successfully execute outsourced projects.

Providing best practices guidelines based upon empirical experience of leading practitioners in the outsourcing industry, the book shows how to construct result-oriented development processes for mitigating execution risk, improving quality, and increasing efficiency. Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System as the underlying infrastructure, the book teaches how to customize development methodologies, integrate with MS Project and MS Outlook, embed real-time communication capabilities, manage source code and build process, run unit tests, create custom reports, and leverage the project portal. Global Outsourcing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System is an essential IT reference for companies interested in effectively managing outsourced projects and reducing friction associated with globally distributed software development.

 

• Teaches how to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System to implement a globally distributed development process in any company
• Explains how to construct low-overhead and metric-based development processes for mitigating execution risk, improving quality, and increasing efficiency
• Provides best practices guidelines on how to manage work items, enable real-time communication, maintain source code, launch builds, execute unit tests, create custom reports, and leverage the project portal
• Includes a companion CD-ROM with working code for extending Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System