Osellus consultants are industry recognized experts in enacting software development processes using the VSTS platform. The process enactment offering provides a seamless transition from the process definition stage to the stage of utilizing the defined processes in real-life projects. This involves creating and assigning the tasks and work items to practitioners in accordance to the VSTS process template. The Team Foundation Server (TFS) component of VSTS offers an ideal process middleware for enacting processes in mixed-technology environments.

An effective process enactment helps your team focus on their current assignments. It prevents process information overload by filtering the process for practitioners, ensuring that they are offered only the information they need and when they need it. Linking process tasks facilitates data rollup and feedback to process authors and project managers, resulting in continuous process improvement.

VSTS offers the necessary tooling to enact processes across the application development lifecycle. Here is a slice of what this could mean in each phase of the development lifecycle:

• Process and Project Management: Tailored process for each project, Full integration with Microsoft Project, Integrated project portal for team collaboration
• Requirements: Business requirements captured and managed to ensure end-to-end traceability
• Modeling: Visually design, configure and validate distributed applications, tests linked to requirements and work items to ensure end-to-end traceability
• Software Change and Configuration Management: Access work items, project documents, reports, builds and source control from one location
• Testing: Integrated unit testing, code profiling, code coverage, static analysis, database testing, test-data generation, manual testing, load testing, web testing
• Build and Deployment: Build Verification