DNDJ Feature — Understanding the Methodology Workbench of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) provides tools and features that can be used in almost all areas of software development. As Microsoft VSTS has a broad spectrum of features and target areas, some of its core feature areas are still not well understood by many people working with the product. One of these feature areas is the methodology management system for software development lifecycles, which is built into the VSTS platform.

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Kamal Ahluwalia commented on 22 Dec 2006

Osellus offers two different solutions for customers who would like to develop custom processes or would like to enact available methodologies (with or without tailoring them) in VSTS.

Using IRIS Process Author, a methodology-agnostic standards based process authoring tool, process engineers can define-tailor-publish software development processes in a collaborative team based environment. This is made possible by the sophisticated server side support for extending and reusing process content, including best practices and patterns, being developed across an enterprise. These processes can then be exported as VSTS process templates to instantiate new team projects in VSTS.

For those teams who would not like to spend the time in coming up with their own processes but use available processes such as those from RUP, Osellus offers the VSTS ContentBridge. The VSTS ContentBridge allows project managers to transform RUP processes into VSTS Process Templates allowing flexible mapping to user defined work item types and attributes, as well as work item form layout. This transformation is lossless preserving the content defined in RUP. In many cases this would include content that has been used from one or more method plug-ins (for example the different RUP plug-ins). These VSTS Process Templates can be used to instantiate and enact new VSTS Team Projects.
After getting the right-process content at the right-time for the right-practioner, the IRIS Plugin for VSTS (to be release 1Q07) would use our second-generation enactment technology to offer advanced workflow execution, including triggering work product state machine based pre/post conditions. It would also offer a sophisticated process-rich web interface to TFS that would include linked work-items. This plugin would then make use of the advanced reporting capabilities built in VSTS to offer reports on enactment, including metrics and process compliance that would be extremely useful to our customers implementing CMMI and other quality initiatives.
I hope you find this information useful. For more information you can go to www.osellus.com or send us an email at info@osellus.com.

Kamal Ahluwalia
Osellus Inc

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