Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

• Security groups. These groups are used to define who can control and manipulate
reports, work products such as source code and documentation, and work items.
Project managers can administer security groups without needing to be Windows
administrators.
• Check-in policies. These policies can be used to enforce rules and quality gates for
all code checked into source control. For example, you can enforce that checked-in
code meets specific criteria, such as conforming to your corporate coding standards,
or passing unit tests. For more information about how to create and configure custom
check-in policies, see “How To: Create Custom Check-in Policies in Visual Studio
Team Foundation Server.”
• Reports. These are used to monitor the ongoing performance and status of the
project. VSTS ships with many predefined reports including code quality reports,
schedule progress reports, test effectiveness reports and many others. You can create
your own report and customize existing reports.
MSF for Agile Software Development and MSF for CMMI Process
Improvement Process Templates
The following two process templates are available out-of-the box.
• MSF for Agile Software Development. This lightweight process template for small,
agile, or informal software projects is based on scenarios and context driven actions
and is project and people centric.
• MSF for CMMI® Process Improvement. This process template is designed for
more mature software projects. It extends MSF for Agile Software Development
process template by providing support for auditing, verification, and formal
processes. It relies on process and conformance to process and is organization centric.
If the provided templates do not match your specific process requirements and
methodology closely enough, you can add new process templates to the system, and you
can customize the supplied templates to fit the needs of your organization. For more
information about customizing existing templates, see “How To: Customize a Process
Template in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.”
Security and Permissions
When you create a project in TFS, four default groups are created for that project
regardless of your choice of process template. By default, each of these groups has a set
of permissions defined for it that govern what members of those groups are authorized to
do:
• Project Administrator
• Contributor
• Reader
• Build Services.
You can create security groups for your team project to better meet the security
requirements of your organization. Creating a security group is an efficient way to grant a