MSF Agile Frame (Workstreams and Key Activities)
When I review an approach, I find it helpful to distill it to a simple frame so I can get a bird's-eye view. For MSF Agile, I found the most useful frame to be the workstreams and key activities. According to MSF, workstreams are simply groups of activities that flow logically together and are usually associated with a particular role. I couldn't find this view in MSF Agile, so I created one:
| Workstream | Role | Key Activities |
|---|---|---|
| Capture Project Vision | Business Analyst | Write Vision Statement; Define Personas; Refine Personas |
| Create a Quality of Service Requirement | Business Analyst | Brainstorm quality of Service Requirements; Develop Lifestyle Snapshot; Prioritize Quality of Service Requirements List; Write Quality of Service Requirements; Identify Security Objectives |
| Create a Scenario | Business Analyst | Brainstorm Scenarios; Develop Lifestyle Snapshot; Prioritize Scenario List; Write Scenario Description; Storyboard a Scenario |
| Guide Project | Project Manager | Review Objectives; Assess Progress; Evaluate Test Metric Thresholds; Triage Bugs; Identify Risk |
| Plan an Iteration | Project Manager | Determine Iteration Length; Estimate Scenario; Estimate Quality of Service Requirements; Schedule Scenario; Schedule Quality of Service Requirement; Schedule bug Fixing Allotment; Divide Scenarios into Tasks; Divide Quality of Service Requirements into Tasks |
| Guide Iteration | Project Manager | Monitor Iteration; Mitigate a Risk; Conduct Retrospectives |
| Create a Solution Architecture | Architect | Partition the System; Determine Interfaces; Develop Threat Model; Develop Performance Model; Create Architectural Prototype; Create Infrastructure Architecture |
| Build a Product | Developer | Start a Build; Verify a Build; Fix a Build; Accept Build |
| Fix a Bug | Developer | Reproduce the Bug; Locate the Cause of a Bug; Reassign a Bug; Decide on a Bug Fix Strategy; Code the Fix for a Bug; Create or Update a Unit Test; Perform a Unit Test; Refactor Code; Review Code |
| Implement a Development Task | Developer | Cost a Development Task; Create or Update a Unit Test; Write Code for a Development Task; Perform Code Analysis; Perform a Unit Test; Refactor Code; Review Code; Integrate Code Changes |
| Close a Bug | Tester | Verify a Fix; Close the Bug |
| Test a Quality of Service Requirement | Tester | Define Test Approach; Write Performance Tests; Write Security Tests; Write Stress Tests; Write Load Tests; Select and Run a Test Case; Open a Bug; Conduct Exploratory Testing |
| Test a Scenario | Tester | Define Test Approach; Write Validation Tests; Select and Run a Test Case; Open a Bug; Conduct Exploratory Testing |
| Release a Product | Release Manager | Execute a Release Plan; Validate a Release; Create Release Notes; Deploy the Product |