Managing Projects with Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System

Managing Risk with Visual Studio Team System

As mentioned earlier, it is tough to talk about project management without discussing how risk is managed. Risk management starts off with risk identification. MSF Agile and MSF for CMMI both allow for this with the Risk work item type. As you might expect, the Risk work item type specified in MSF Agile is quite different than the one in MSF for CMMI; the latter version provides a more comprehensive workflow model and additional fields to manage mitigation plans, contingency plans, risk probability, and estimates. Risk identification starts, however, by simply creating a new risk and providing it with a title and a description.

Creating a Risks Work Item Query

Interestingly, MSF Agile does not include ...