Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

provide integrated data from across VSTS components, to enable project managers and
team members to understand the state of the software development project, and take
appropriate action to ensure its success.
The process template you use to create your team project determines which reports are
available by default, but you can also add your own custom reports. The content and use
of each report created by the process template is explained in the process guidance for
that template. Team Foundation Server is built on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and uses
SQL Server to store all data related to work items, quality attributes, testing, test results,
and build results. TFS then uses SQL Server Analysis Services to aggregate and analyze
the data and drive the reports. The reports that are created by the process template, or by
individual team members by using Microsoft Office Excel or Visual Studio 2005 Report
Designer, are made available through SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and the team
SharePoint portal site.
For more information about customizing reports, see “How To: Create a Custom Report
for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.”
Summary
Team Foundation Server provides project management features such as centralized work
item management, process management, security and permissions management, project
metrics, and reporting to improve your ability to manage development projects in Visual
Studio.
The software-development lifecycle has been made an integral part of the tooling to
support software project development efforts. TFS provides the MSF Agile and MSF
CMMI process templates, which support two very different development methodologies.
You can modify the supplied process templates or create one from scratch in order to
meet your team’s development process needs.
Additional Resources
• For more information on software project management using VSTS, see “Visual
Studio 2005 Team System: Software Project Management” at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302181.aspx
• For more information on using Microsoft Office Excel for project-management tasks,
see “Working with Work Item Lists in Microsoft Excel” at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181694(VS.80).aspx
• For more information on using Microsoft Office Project for project-management
tasks, see “Working with Work Items in Microsoft Project” at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms244368(VS.80).aspx