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StarTeam is a sophisticated configuration management system. To the usual version control of files, StarTeam adds tightly integrated management of process items including requirements, tasks, and change requests.It also provides sophisticated distributed update and caching features appreciated by widely distributed teams organisations. The sophisticated data collection and reporting capabilities added by its datamart module are ideal for management-level analysis.

  • User Stories and Borland StarTeam
    To what extent can Borland’s StarTeam configuration management system support user stories
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  • StarTeam and Releases and Iterations
    In planning a release or iteration the subset of user stories that are going to be developed during that release or iteration are identified. This subset needs to be depicted in StarTeam somehow
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  • StarTeam and Burn down Charts
    To steer a car, assuming the vehicle is functioning correctly, a driver needs to be able to see where they are, where they are going, and have some idea of how fast they are moving. Burn down charts used in Scrum, and widely adopted in eXtreme Programming too,
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  • StarTeam and Features
    Feature Driven development(FDD) is a little different from Scrum and eXtreme Programming. Reflecting its use perhaps on larger projects, FDD defines a three level hierarchy for its agile requirements that it calls features.
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