{"id":4363,"date":"2012-09-19T06:39:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T06:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/09\/19\/team-foundation-service-process-template-changes\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:58:13","slug":"team-foundation-service-process-template-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/team-foundation-service-process-template-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Foundation Service: Process template changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With this latest <a href=\"http:\/\/tfspreview.com\/en-us\/home\/news\/2012\/sep-17\/\" target=\"_blank\">Team Foundation Service update<\/a>, we have updated the process template versions for all the templates. Agile and CMMI are at 6.1. Scrum is at 2.1. This reflects a few minor improvements we&#8217;ve made:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; For Agile, the User Story&#8217;s state model has been updated to allow you to transition from any state to any other state. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; For Scrum, we did the same for Product Backlog Item and Bug.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; For CMMI, we corrected some bugs where the ResolvedBy, ResolvedDate, ActivatedBy, ActiviatedDate fields were not being set\/cleared properly on some transitions.<\/p>\n<p>We have noticed in the industry a desire to move towards a less restriction process flow. The implementation of the kanban board highlighted just how restrictive our work flow was. <\/p>\n<p>For example, for Scrum, if you moved a tile from &#8220;New&#8221; to &#8220;Approved&#8221;, you couldn&#8217;t move back again!<\/p>\n<p>This just seemed too restrictive and we fixed it.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that we did not update the workflow of Requirements in the CMMI template, as we are assuming if people want this template, they want a more formal control over the work flow.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this latest Team Foundation Service update, we have updated the process template versions for all the templates. Agile and CMMI are at 6.1. Scrum is at 2.1. This reflects a few minor improvements we&#8217;ve made: &#8211; For Agile, the User Story&#8217;s state model has been updated to allow you to transition from any state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure-devops-server","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>With this latest Team Foundation Service update, we have updated the process template versions for all the templates. Agile and CMMI are at 6.1. Scrum is at 2.1. This reflects a few minor improvements we&#8217;ve made: &#8211; For Agile, the User Story&#8217;s state model has been updated to allow you to transition from any state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}