Process Template Editor for Visual Studio Team System
Imaginet is creating a free Process Template Editor.
Incredible great stuff! After working a lot with Process Templates by editing the XML-Files this tool is marvellous.
Some things to mention:
- You need to have installed Visual Studio Team Explorer
- Working in online mode requires the template to be opened locally. It just enables better validation of the template by using TFS infrastructure.
The minimal set of entries which is needed in a template consists of ‘Area’ and ‘Iteration’. Anyway dropping things like Work Items from SW Development Processes and not only disables powerful reporting abilities of TFS. Assuming that Software Development should produce results :) especially (Project) Management is interested in item tracking. Therefore customization of templates should be done carefully. Read more about Software Development Processes on the MSF Homepage.
