Chapter 11. Creating Standards and Processes

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Standards

• Processes

• Pascal case

• Camel case

• FxCop

• Best practices

• Return on investment (ROI)

• Enterprise Templates

• Visual SourceSafe

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Selecting team standards for best-practices development

• Using proven patterns and practices

• Developing processes that support predictable results

• Calculating an ROI for a solution

Although implementing standards and processes is the last topic in the exam guidelines, it is not the last task chronologically. Before the first document is created or the first line of code is written, there should be standards and processes.

Standards define the "minimally acceptable" practices that the team has agreed on. Processes define how you get from project inception to project completion with the least risk and the highest quality.

Finally, in this chapter, you take a quick look at how return on investment (ROI) defines the success of a project.