VSTS Software Engineering

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This article—VSTS Software Engineering—is from Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, by Sam Guckenheimer, Juan J. Perez. Copyright © 2006 Sam Guckenheimer. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. This article has been edited especially for C# Online.NET.  Read the book review!

Previously, software engineering projects were managed from a "work-down" perspective, where software engineering is a deterministic exercise, similar to other engineering pursuits. This chapter introduces the concept of a "value-up" perspective, in which the project is allowed to change to meet the expectations of the end-user, rather than the intentions of the designers.

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"A theory should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." —Albert Einstein

Figure 1.1 Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity was the focal point of a paradigm shift in our understanding of physics. It capped forty years of debate on the most vexing technical challenges of his day—how to synchronize clocks and how to accurately draw maps over long distances.