Automatic work item creation and linking in VSTS

March 13th, 2008 by David Gowan

It’s been a busy few weeks since the Heroes Happen {Here} event here in Toronto where we launched the latest release of our IRIS Process Live product for VSTS 2008.  This release has been generating a lot of excitement amongst those looking to increase their productivity with VSTS.  IRIS Process Live (IPL) is a collection of client and server extensions that enable VSTS to guide the execution of your projects based on your process of choice.  IPL is methodology neutral so it allows you to bring any process definition (MSF, RUP, agile, in-house) into your VSTS enactment environment and automatically create the necessary work items and relationships to help you get going.  The following are some of the features of IRIS Process Live.

IPL extends the project creation wizard to allow you to select the process definition and process patterns that you want to use for your project.

Select process definition during project creation

IPL extends the project creation wizard to allow you to select which process elements you want to instantiate in your project.

Select which elements to instantiate

IPL work items automatically contain the necessary guidance for you to get started.

IPL work items are automatically linked together based on their process relationships.

IPL work items automatically contain links to relevant guidance and process guidance items.

IPL automatically performs work item state changes based on their process relationships.

IPL automatically sends users notifications when their work items are ready to be started or have been updated.

IPL allows you to create additional work items from the process definition at any time during project execution.

Instantiate additional work items during project execution

Both activities and work products are instantiated by the wizard

IPL allows you to add or remove additional process definitions and practices during project execution.

IPL contains process related reports that can be used for process improvement or governance related initiatives.

More information about IRIS Process Live is available at http://www.osellus.com/IRIS-PL.

8 Responses to “Automatic work item creation and linking in VSTS”

  1. Hans ten Berge Says:

    Hi
    As a user of Ossellus software we’r very intrested in these seminairs. I also posted an interesting view on the cohesion of the different processes.

    Unfortinatly it is in dutch but reflects the project management and controll dependancy including RUP.
    http://adi.atosoriginblog.nl/2008/06/20/processen-doe-mij-maar-een-paarse-krokodil/

    PS the upcomming may 27th is a bit late.

    Hans ten Berge

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