Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

• Your project is of a long duration.
• You have to certify your process or prove compliance with process standards.
Note: You are not confined to the default process templates. If you have installed other
process templates from third parties, such as the Scrum process template, you can choose
these templates as well.
Step 3 – Download the Process Template
In this step, you download the chosen process template to be adapted to your customized
process.
1. In Visual Studio, click Team and then select Team Foundation Server Settings.
2. Click Process Template Manager.
3. In the Process Template Manager dialog box, select the process template you want
to modify, and then click Download.
4. In the Download Process Template dialog box, select the folder location on your
local drive where you want to save the template, and then click Save.
For instance, you can download the MSF CMMI process template to your desktop for use
in the next step.
Step 4 – Open the Process Template in Process Editor
In this step, you load the downloaded process template into the Process Editor in order to
modify various settings.
1. In Visual Studio, click the Team menu.
2. Click Process Editor, and then click Open Process Template.
3. In the Open Process Template fileset dialog box, navigate to the downloaded
process template, and then click Open to open the ProcessTemplate.xml file inside
Visual Studio.
4. Specify the Name of the methodology you are customizing.
For instance, you can specify ‘My Template’ as the new process template name.
Step 5 – Modify Work Item Types
In this step, you add new work items types that are specific to your process, or modify the
default work item types.
To add new work item types
1. In the Process Template Explorer, click Work Item Tracking.
2. In the right pane, click the Type Definitions tab.
3. To create a new work item, click Add in the toolbar in the right pane.
4. In the New Work Item Type dialog box, enter a name for the work item type, or
select an existing work item type from the Copy From drop-down list.