TFS 11 Requirements Management with PowerPoint
The
development of a new software product, or one of iterations, starts with the requirements
definition. Microsoft with Visual Studio 11 for the first time offers a
dedicated tool for requirements management. It is called PowerPoint! This is Microsoft
Office PowerPoint. Within the Visual Studio group of products, it’s called Storyboarding
PowerPoint, but it is nothing else but a well-known tool for creating
presentation documents with the Add-in that gives us shapes and templates for
different kind of user interfaces, so you can use all its functionalities you already know. Using this tool, an end-user or a business analyst, whoever defines the requirements, can simply define look and feel of the desired application. PowerPoint document created with this tool can be stored
anywhere, but the best practice is to save it on the project portal of the Team
Foundation Server, together with other project documentation, so that all
stakeholders can access them. During the project planning, this document should
be linked to a user story (in case of Scrum process) or any other work item
depending on methodology template you use. With the PowerPoint Storyboarding
you can quickly build the mockups that simulate all user interaction for the
new requirements. Users don’t know what
they want until they see that. With this tool, they will create requirements
and see the result at the same time. If you need a real prototype of your
application, you will find this tool too simple. If you need something more
complex, with much more graphics and UI options to create prototype of your
application, you could use ScatchFlow.It’s not a new tool and it’s a part of
Microsoft Expression family of tools.
The intention of this tool is to create a real UI- functional prototype. But,
in most cases, it’s more then you need. In the requirements phase, you have to
be agile and react fast. You need to use simple tool to change the UI
requirements faster. The best tool for that purpose is the new PowerPointStoryboarding.
The
development of a new software product, or one of iterations, starts with the requirements
definition. Microsoft with Visual Studio 11 for the first time offers a
dedicated tool for requirements management. It is called PowerPoint! This is Microsoft
Office PowerPoint. Within the Visual Studio group of products, it’s called Storyboarding
PowerPoint, but it is nothing else but a well-known tool for creating
presentation documents with the Add-in that gives us shapes and templates for
different kind of user interfaces, so you can use all its functionalities you already know. Using this tool, an end-user or a business analyst, whoever defines the requirements, can simply define look and feel of the desired application. PowerPoint document created with this tool can be stored
anywhere, but the best practice is to save it on the project portal of the Team
Foundation Server, together with other project documentation, so that all
stakeholders can access them. During the project planning, this document should
be linked to a user story (in case of Scrum process) or any other work item
depending on methodology template you use. With the PowerPoint Storyboarding
you can quickly build the mockups that simulate all user interaction for the
new requirements. Users don’t know what
they want until they see that. With this tool, they will create requirements
and see the result at the same time. If you need a real prototype of your
application, you will find this tool too simple. If you need something more
complex, with much more graphics and UI options to create prototype of your
application, you could use ScatchFlow.It’s not a new tool and it’s a part of
Microsoft Expression family of tools.
The intention of this tool is to create a real UI- functional prototype. But,
in most cases, it’s more then you need. In the requirements phase, you have to
be agile and react fast. You need to use simple tool to change the UI
requirements faster. The best tool for that purpose is the new PowerPointStoryboarding.
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