New TFS Template Available - "Agile Dev in a Waterfall Environment"–GovDev
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 is the
collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft’s
application lifecycle management solution. In addition to
core features like source control, build automation and
work-item tracking, TFS enables teams to align projects with
industry processes such as Agile, Scrum and CMMi via the use
of customable XML Process Templates.
Since 2005, TFS
has been a welcomed addition to the Microsoft developer tool
line-up by Government Agencies of all sizes and missions.
However, many government development teams consistently
struggle with leveraging an iterative development process
all while providing the structure, visibility and status
reporting that is required by many Government,
waterfall-centric, project methodologies.
GovDev is an
open source, TFS Process Template that combines the
formality of CMMi/Waterfall with the flexibility of
Agile/Iterative:
The GovDev for TFS Accelerator also implements two new
custom reports to support the customized process and provide
the real-time visibility across the lifecycle with full
traceability and drill down to tasks, tests and code:
The TFS Accelerator contains:
- A custom TFS process template that implements a requirements centric, yet iterative process with extreme traceability throughout the lifecycle.
- A custom “Requirements Traceability Report” that provides a single view of traceability for the project. Within the Traceability Report, you can also view live status indicators and “click-through” to the individual assets (even changesets).
- A custom report that focuses on “Contributions by Team Member” tracking things like “number of check-ins” and “Net lines added”.
- Fully integrated documentation on the entire process and features.
