Use story cards to estimate, prioritize, and plan agile projects

An agile software development team needs to define the software features that have value to the business, then plan their implementation to realize this value as quickly as possible. Proper estimates and priorities are essential to this process; feeding garbage into a planning process will inevitably result in nothing but garbage coming out.

In this chapter download from Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams, learn how your development team can use story cards to more effectively identify desirable software features and properly estimate and prioritize the work associated with implementing them.

Title: Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams
Author: Will Stott, James W. Newkirk
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Chapter 25: Estimating and Prioritizing Stories
ISBN: 0-321-41850-6; Copyright 2007, Addison Wesley Professional. All rights reserved.
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