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

描述

在全球化時代，外包已成為實現競爭優勢和生存的關鍵策略。然而，儘管廣泛採用，市場上對於如何最佳管理外包項目的實用指南卻很少。《使用 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System 進行全球外包》教導管理者、開發人員和 SQA 專業人員如何成功執行外包項目。

本書基於外包行業領先從業者的實證經驗，提供了基於最佳實踐的指南，展示了如何構建以結果為導向的開發流程，以減輕執行風險、提高質量和效率。本書以 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System 為基礎架構，教導如何自定義開發方法論，與 MS Project 和 MS Outlook 整合，嵌入實時通信功能，管理源代碼和構建過程，運行單元測試，創建自定義報告，並利用項目門戶。《使用 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System 進行全球外包》是一本對於有興趣有效管理外包項目並減少與全球分散軟件開發相關摩擦的重要 IT 參考資料。

特點

- 教導如何使用 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System 在任何公司實施全球分散開發流程
- 解釋如何構建低開銷和基於指標的開發流程，以減輕執行風險、提高質量和效率
- 提供關於如何管理工作項目、實現實時通信、維護源代碼、啟動構建、執行單元測試、創建自定義報告和利用項目門戶的最佳實踐指南
- 附帶一個包含擴展 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System 的工作代碼的光碟片