Process Tools

Visual Studio Team System enables you to choose and adapt a process that suits your team environment. Process authoring and customization tools helps in tailoring the process to blend best practices and tune it based on team experience.

Team System Process Editor
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The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Power Tool (formerly known as Power Toys) now includes the Team System Process Editor, which is a tool integrated with Visual Studio that provides a convenient method of viewing and customizing process templates. When connected to Team Foundation Server, you can use this tool to customize work item type definitions and global lists on an active project.
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              <p>Osellus’ IRISProcess Author is a visual process management system that enables organizations to blend the best industry content with their own proven practices to establish a rich set of process assets that are ideally tailored for their environment which can be then be exported as a Visual Studio Team System process template.</p>
              <p>Osellus’ Content Bridge for VSTS creates VSTS Process Templates from Rational® Method Composer (RMC) content, including content from the various RUP® and third-party plug-ins. This loss-less transformation empowers teams by allowing them to create and execute "RUP® aware" Team System projects.</p>
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