Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

specific set of permissions to a group of users on your team project. Make sure that you
allow only the minimum permissions necessary for the group, and add only those users or
groups who must belong to this new team project group
After you have created a team project group, you must add the new group, give the group
the appropriate permissions, and add members to the group. By default, a team project
group is created without any permission granted.
Work Item Management
Work items are used as units of work for communication and collaboration between the
team. Your selected process template provides an initial set of work item types and
project managers then create and manage additional work items that need to be
completed on a development project. A work item might define a task, risk, scenario,
bug, or quality of service (QoS) requirement. You can link work items together to
provide better traceability. For example, you could associate a specific work item task
with the related scenario or QoS requirement to which that work item relates.
The process template provides the definitions for the work item types, including the set of
fields defined for each work item type. Therefore selection of the process template is
important, because it can't be modified during the project. If required, you should
customize the process template to include any additional work item types other than those
provided by the base templates.
A number of pre-defined work-items are generated in both the MSF for Agile Software
Development and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement process templates when you
create a new team project. These work items can be used to jumpstart your use of the
process, as they contain tasks that are necessary to complete in order to begin the
software development process.
MSF for Agile Software Development Process Template
The work item types provided by this process template include:
• Scenario – Used to represent a user interaction with the application system. It records
the specific steps necessary to reach a goal. When writing scenarios, be sure to be
specific as there may be many possible paths.
• Task – Used to represent a unit of work that needs to be performed. Each role has its
own requirements for a task. For example, a developer uses development tasks to
assign work.
• Quality of Service Requirement – Used to document the system characteristics such
as performance, load, availability, stress, accessibility, and serviceability
• Bug – Used to communicate a potential problem in the system.
• Risk – Used to identify and manage the inherent risks of a project.
MSF for CMMI® Process Improvement Process Template
The work item types provided by this process template include: