Managing Projects with Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System

Roles Involved in Planning

Before beginning planning activities, you should think about the roles that will be needed for different aspects of planning for your project. Obviously, PMBOK stresses the involvement of business stakeholders during planning activities because they are ultimately responsible for the project. The importance of stakeholder involvement, however, cannot outweigh the involvement of your entire team. Planning is when your team, from business analysts to testers, come together to specify the path they will take with each other to develop great software. By involving your entire team during the planning phase, you are not only sharing the planning workload, you are also working to unify your team’s understanding of the project, ...