Recent update: 2008-3-21
Team System Gurus..Here is a mind Shuffling puzzle We are a Consultancy Firm in Pakistan. We have a separate department for Custom Software Development .We have 10 people in this Department. Most of them are developers. [>>>>Please do not take word MOST seriously] Most of our ...
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">What is the best Tool set for using with MSF for adopting CMMI Level 2?</span>
Activity number 5 of the Create Solution Architecture Workstram is the Creation of an Architectural Prototype. As I have no samples of this I'm not sure of what do I have to do here. Is this the place to decide which will be the core components of my architecture? Is this the place where I ...
HiWe are a small Companyhaving 10 people as Development Team.We Have following goals:1- Want to Achieve CMMI Level 2 by Mid of Next Year.2- Want to Adopt Visual Studio Team System as Early Adopters.What is Best Track for us with respect to adopting MSF for Process improvements. ...
Hi, In TFS Beta 3 the Agile process included is Build 98. Will there be another build released during October or with the production release of Visual Studio in November? Many thanks in advance <img src="/library/msdn/emoticons/emotion-2.gif" alt="Big Smile" />
I can see you have Establish Product Integration Procedures, Establish Verification Procedures activities in ProcessBootstrap.vsd and I wonder what you want to show here? Can you explain more detail about two activities? Why do you put them in "Change request control"? In my opinion, I think ...
Does anyone know when the CMMI process guidance is going to be available for customization? (ie. export-edit-import into TFS / use as template)
Hi I have been using RUP for 4 years, and one thing that I am used to, is the diagrams, especially use case, secuence and class diagrams, I want to keep this diagrams because I found they very useful, use case diagrams allow me to see the scope, and the design diagrams allow me to see what ...
While customizing the process template- created work item A- creating work item B, want to use a dropdown that lists all work items created of type Ai.e If there are work items called Parts and Machine, want to access a dropdown of all created Parts in the Machine work itemWhat is the syntax ...
Can someone explain to me more detail about the activities below : - Establish Product Integration Procedures- Establish Verification Procedures- Manage Traceability of Requirements- Perform Configuration Audit on workstream diagram "Process Bootstrap" (you can find it in \MSF for CMMI Process ...
Dear All, Pleased to join this forum, I am intersted in MSF, actually I was plannig to get the v 3.0 certificate but then I read that v 4.0 will be so different and it will be better to wait and see as new MSF 4.0 is for CMMI, I just downloaded "MSF for CMMI process improvement" content , is ...
Can someone point me to a set of activities in MSF Agile that deal with creating and delivering appropriate guidance for using a finished system to the people who will use it? While trying to figure this out I noticed that the "Business Analyst" role was shown with the rounded box labeled "User ...
How can referenced work items (foreign key kind of relationship) be called like some custom button on the work item layout that can run a query and bring up child work items in the search results? Also, can hierarchies be created in work items? Have seen Related items.
I could not find any information in the current beta regarding licensing. What are the terms of use and distribution of MSF Agile? ...
I can set the values of 'Reason' dropdown field for any 'State' change by modifying the Bug.xml (\Currituck\TypeDefinitions\bug.xml) <Transition> block <TRANSITION from="Resolved" to="Closed"> <REASONS> <DEFAULTREASON value="Resolution Confirmed"/> <REASON ...
While customizing the process template- created work item A- creating work item B, want to use a dropdown that lists all work items created of type Ai.e If there are work items called Parts and Machine, want to access a dropdown of all created Parts in the Machine work itemWhat is the syntax ...
Can someone point me to a set of activities in MSF Agile that deal with creating and delivering appropriate guidance for using a finished system to the people who will use it? While trying to figure this out I noticed that the "Business Analyst" role was shown with the rounded box labeled "User ...
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">What is the best Tool set for using with MSF for adopting CMMI Level 2?</span>
What do you people think …For Small Business…organizations having lesser number of people on hand? What is the best way to adopt Process Improvement MSF or RUP? ...
Hi What do you people think that MSF canbe succesfully used to adopt CMMI Level 2.If Yes any examples.
Hello, I work on a company that always had been developing on another platforms *java, php) and they know a lot about patterns, what I dont know is how to implement those GangOfFour Patters on my asp.net appplications? Any ideas?
I keep searching the MSF Agile Process for a "Design Database" work item, activity or task. But I cannot find it. Isn't it considered as part of the process? Thanks.
It seems like the quality of service requirements are really important for the MSF Agile process. I'm reading the guidance, but I just don't get the idea of this work items. Can anybody give me examples of quality of service requirements and the way the would be handled in the MSF Agile ...
I have been hunting for examples MSF projects , I noticed on this forum that were plans to provide some . I was wondering how that is progressing. I am currently trying to understand how documnets will look and feel and hang together. Whilst I know there are templates they down't really help. ...
184 byte By
NickP at 2008-2-15
Can someone within MSFT please confirm that TFS Beta 3 will contain the complete MSF for CMMI template? If not, should we expect it sometime this year or not until the actual TFS RTM?
In the MSF for Agile Development Process, the first activity of the "Plan an Iteration" work stream is "Determine iteration lenght". The guidance talks about planning an iteration length that "provides just enough time to get a small number of scenarios or quality of service requirements done". ...
Hi all,My question regards the process of a traditional management based hierachy (ie produce managers, team leaders and developers) and its transition to MSF style roles. From my understanding MSF allows you to put you team together from your available resources but according to a table in a ...
Which are the differences? Whichi process guidance templates will be with final version of team foundation server? How should I decide which one to choose? Thanks
What is SCRUM? Is it a framework like MSF or a process to manage software projects?
How can I create roles ? How can I assign diferents roles to the same user ? Thanks Leticia
I am reading Analize requirement and Dev. solution, MS Press and have some confusions about the conceptual model. How do i create a conceptual model after defining services and selecting an application architecture? Can you give me an example about conceptual model? Thank ...
749 byte By
Wills at 2008-2-10
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/workshop/msfagile/default.aspxFooterEdit.js IcebergEdit.js ProcessGuidanceEdit.htm seem to be missing from the:>>>MSF for Agile Software Development, Beta (Full Process Template). This means that you can't enter Edit Mode and make changes to ...
409 byte By
Wills at 2008-2-10
The Project Portal is a SharePoint site so I can customise it and then save the template as a STP file, say BSDAgile.stp. However after putting in WssTasks.xml: <site template="BSDAgile" language="1033"> an error message says "Template not found on Server" when I attempt to import the ...
3223 byte By
Wills at 2008-2-8
I'm trying to produce a minimal MethodologyTemplate - see my other posts. I have successful removed most of the initial tasks, work item type 'Qos', work item type 'risk' and work item type 'Scenario'. I have also added the new work item type 'Story' and added a corresponding query ...
I'm starting a project with MSF Agile. I've read almost all the Process Guidance and found it very detailed, very interesting. But the thing I don't find where to put are the business rules that are present in many of my scenarios. The guidance says that the system behaviour show be ...
390 byte By
Wills at 2008-2-7
Tools like witexport.exe and witimport.exe allow you to add new Work Items to an existing project, so permitting you to create new metrics as the project proceeds. However, at present these tools are part of the VSTS Extensibility Kit Beta 2. Are there plans to release them to ...
501 byte By
Wills at 2008-2-7
The tool mentioned in the MSF Process Guidance Customisation Guide for building the HTML files in the Process Guidance folder after Editing them is supposed to be downloadable from: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/workshop/msfagile/default.aspx I can't find it. Doesn't anyone know ...
399 byte By
Wills at 2008-2-7
Hi,**** INITIAL VERSION OF TEMPLATE AVAILABLE NOW *****I've setup a project to develop a VSTS Methodology Template for Extreme Programming http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/bsdagile Any offers of help or info about similar projects gratefully received.Will ...
464 byte By
Wills at 2008-2-7
Does Microsoft have any plans to produce a minimal methodology template for people who want to produce their own process? I would like something with perhaps just two roles (developer & customer), some work items (bugs, tasks, story), one activity (report bug), one workstream (team build) ...
1346 byte By
rball at 2008-2-6
We have been using the RUP (a very scaled down version of it) for quite a while now. We define a vision document with feature requirements that are traced to use cases and supplementary requirements. Our use cases have multiple subflows and define all of the possible alternate flows. They also ...
2211 byte By
JeffM at 2008-2-6
I see bits and pieces of info that indicate VSTS can manage requirements and other development artifacts. Is this true, and if so, where can I find screen-shots or other detailed documentation on its capabilities? My organization is a software company that is at a point where we need to ...
391 byte By
M.Carr at 2008-2-5
This is a great resource. I am working with the Iteration Plan spreadsheet and have a couple of questions.1) On the first worksheet what should be populated on the (number) column?2) On the Iteration Number worksheet shouldn't the total cost formula be D40+C33+D24 rather than D40+C33+C24? The ...
Does anyone recommend reading this book?Microsoft Solutions Framework: A Pocket Guide http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9077212167/qid=1123079139/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-0091651-7011831?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 ...
257 byte By
JGP at 2008-2-4
Hi, I'm fairly new to MSF so pls forgive me if this question sounds dumb: Where do Standards docs come in for the MSF agile process? Like "Coding Standards", "Naming Conventions" etc. I don't see mention of these anywhere.. Thanks, JGP
When is the MSF CMMI process template expected to be released?
I was giving a demo on VSTS to management today and they hit me with a question that I wasn't really prepared for. They want to be able to have different processes for one team project depending on iteration. I stated that I didn't think this was available in VSTS, but I am wondering if I ...
Hi -We have numerous, interdependant systems within our environment. Many of these systems are integrated at the data, and business tiers. The problem is when a change occurs w/in the environment (like application A changes a business rule or an interface, it breaks applications B, C, D). ...
<div>I downloaded the new Process Guidance zip file. How can I make this the default one that gets created when I create a new team project in my VS2005 Beta 2? Thank you, Sammy </div>
114 byte By
ApoloH at 2008-2-3
Where can I find information about the Application Model that a time ago was in previous versions of MSF?
My company is interested in getting CMMI certified. We are using Microsoft technologies a lot and would like to start learning about MSF. Forgive me if the question is silly. Is it possible for our company to go for MSF Agile, and then evolve into CMMI compatible practices?This makes sense for ...