JD Meier

High Performance & Innovation Coach

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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 an 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 Developer 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

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