I was just testing team explorer and all the menus, and I see an option where you can add Areas and Iterations, could somebody give me a brief explanation of areas in sofwware development in cmmi?
Thanks
(smaller projects probably wouldn't need to go 5 levels deep)
Iterations, as you probably guessed, are more for tracking development over time. They're commonly referred to as "milestones" in other processes.
Area is a way for organizing work items like bugs, tasks etc in either feature/subfeature hierarchy or Component structure or team structure hierarchy. However, iteration is a way for organizing work items based on product milestones.
You can also check out http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=254977&SiteID=1 for more information.
-Mohammad
