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APPLICATIONS
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Figure 15-1.
A simplified entity relationship diagram of Team Development
The Team Development entities are contained within a single workspace. When you're managing several
applications simultaneously within a workspace, you and your teams can easily filter Team Development's data by
using the tool's interactive reports. That way, each stakeholder sees only the work that is of immediate interest for the
tasks at hand.
Features
describe the big picture. At a high level, they describe and track progress for the major pieces of
functionality that your client has requested. Attributes like owner, start date, due date, summary description, priority,
status, and so on are easily tracked. In addition, you can optionally track the status of individual components such as
the user interface, testing, documentation, globalization, security, and accessibility. The self-join that is associated
with features allows you to further subdivide a feature into child features as development progresses and the design
becomes more refined. The high-level nature of features makes them an ideal source for management status reports.
Milestones
are the high-level scheduling component of Team Development. They can be used to track major and
minor releases of an application. Don't confuse milestones with the due dates that are associated with features and
to-dos. For example, a milestone could be the scheduled date for a product release, but a feature that is included in
the release might be due well in advance of the milestone date. If you use an agile software-development strategy,
milestones are well suited to define the time boxes or sprints.
