Pro Visual Studio Team System Application Lifecycle Management

CHAPTER 1Why Do We Develop BusinessSoftware and Systems?

Information is available at our fingertips all the time if we want it these days. I remember the days back when I was a teenager. Music and movies were, and always will be, two of my top interests. This obsession started during my teens, and I chased rare records of my favorite artists and hard-to-find horror movies everywhere. When I found a rare vinyl pressing of a precious record from the United States, for instance, I was ecstatic. Not to mention my emotional turmoil when I managed to purchase a Japanese edition of the same record. Those days I wrote snail mail asking for record mail-order catalogs from all over the world, based on ads in magazines such as Rolling Stone or Melody Maker ...