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Process Templates and Tools

With Visual Studio Team System and the integrated process templates, teams can deliver predictable results, continuously improve and adapt, and effectively collaborate and communicate with team members and stakeholders. One process does not fit all software projects or teams. Visual Studio Team System includes Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement. In addition, partner organizations offer processes including SCRUM, EUP and FDD for Visual Studio Team system. These templates can be used as is, or customized to enact your development process.

Featured Process Templates and Tools

MSF for Agile Software Development
MSF for Agile Software Development makes iterative software development enterprise ready by providing features like risk management, release management and design for operations. This site contains updates to the process guidance, bug fixes, and supporting material for this process.

MSF for CMMI Process Improvement
MSF for CMMI Process Improvement provides rich connections to the CMMI process to help organizations quickly implement mature software development practices. This site contains updates to the process guidance, bug fixes, and supporting material for this process.

Process Template Editor
The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools includes an updated Process Template Editor. Updates include the ability to launch standalone w/o a Visual Studio installation, performance improvements, improved discoverability and bug fixes.

For users of Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Power Tools contains the previous version of the Process Template Editor.

Highlights

Agile 2009 Conference - This conference is about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and first-hand experience, from both the management and technical sides of agile software development.
Tools for Agility – In this white paper, Kent Beck shares his thoughts on the relationship between tools and agile software development.

Resources

Process Templates on CodePlex

Templex: The TFS Process Template Library
Set your templates free! Share and discover Team Foundation Server process templates and other goodies here. This CodePlex projects serves as a repository for open source Team Foundation Server (TFS) process templates, work item type definitions and report definitions. TFS uses process templates to configure new team projects.

Team System: Process Templates and Tools
Visual Studio Team System: Process Templates and Tools community site is a collection of tools, samples and guidance related to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Process Templates. We’ll share ...

Scrumptious
Scrumptious is a spin-off of the MSF for Agile process template (for now), augmenting it with the scrum methodology. The key differentiator from other process templates built for scrum is that this...

V-Model XT Generator
The “CollabXT for TFS” Project offers a generic way for transforming a V-Modell® XT Process into a valid Team Foundation Server Process Template . Therefore the project offers a generator to autom...

VSTS Scrum Process Template
This is a community project that will result in a usable SCRUM process template for Team System. You will be able to download this process template from CodePlex and upload it into VSTS.

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Templates

Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)
Download SDL Process Template

Avanade SLP
Building the Avanade Software Lifecycle Platform using Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

BrightWork PMPoint
BrightWork Agile Software Manager

Cognizant FDD
Cognizant FDD Overview

Conchango SCRUM
Scrum for Team System

Fujitsu Macroscope
Macroscope

Ivar Jacboson Consulting EssUP
EssUP for Visual Studio Team System

Object Consulting TeamGuide
Process MeNtOR TeamGuide

Tools

Osellus
IRISProcess Author is a visual process management system that enables organizations to blend the best industry content with their own proven practices to establish a rich set of process assets that are ideally tailored for their environment which can be then be exported as a Visual Studio Team System process template.

Featured Training Partner

Net Objectives

Implementing Agile Development With Visual Studio Team System - This 5-day hands-on course equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to participate effectively on an Agile team that is using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). Participants will learn the roles of Agile, the principles of Agile planning, analysis, and development. VSTS will be used to illustrate the practices taught. There also is a section on how to customize VSTS to support the team’s Agile methods.

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