Avanade Connected Methods™ (ACM) for .NET is Avanade’s methodology for executing .NET projects. Avanade is leveraging the extensibility model of Visual Studio Team System to create a Visual Studio Team System process template to host ACM. The ACM for .NET process template for Visual Studio includes support for these ACM phases: Envisioning, Planning, Executing, Stabilizing and Deployment.

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

BrightWork PMPoint is the leading collaborative project management application for SharePoint. It includes a pre-built project template - Agile Software Manager - that enables organizations to efficiently manage agile software projects based on MSF for Agile Software Development.

BrightWork Agile Software Manager

Cognizant FDD process is a full-cycle development process based on defining the application as a collection of individual “features”, where each feature is a verifiable client-valued function. It also takes into account well defined roles. Cognizant FDD integrated with Microsoft VSTS provides the automated process infrastructure for large-scale, feature-driven development that can enhance the productivity and quality with reduced overhead.

Cognizant FDD Overview

Scrum for Team System integrates the Scrum framework with Team System. Scrum artifacts are made visible to the whole team and integrated seamlessly into Scrum Sprint cycle and daily work. Burndown charts and other reports provide a continuously updated picture of velocity, progress and quality.

Scrum for Team System

The Macroscope for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System solution significantly improves team productivity by standardizing processes, work products, system architecture and solution components, and by maximizing resource management and automating workflows.

Macroscope

The Essential Unified Process, or “EssUP” for short, is a new “Practice” centric software development process that stands on the shoulders of modern but established software development best practice.  It is a fresh new start integrating successful practices sourced from the three leading process camps: the unified process camp, the agile methods camp and the process maturity camp.  Each one of them contributes different capabilities: structure, agility and process improvement. 

EssUP for Visual Studio Team System

Process MeNtOR TeamGuide enables you to select ‘just enough’ process to suit the size and style of your project. TeamGuide includes a full SDLC, customizable process template, a range of project roadmaps, deliverable templates, and wizards to generate custom work items incorporating best practice guidance. Process MeNtOR TeamGuide integrates with Microsoft Team Foundation Server and provides a series of planning and scheduling wizards that generate work items for Process MeNtOR Activities and Tasks.

Process MeNtOR TeamGuide