How can I find the process template of my TFS project

Question

Is there a way to see which template my TFS project uses?

Ie Scrum for Team System, MSFT Agile 4, etc.

Answer 1

This information is not stored in your TFS environment. The only thing you can do is look at the types of work items or states in the work item and “guess” which template it is.

For example: in TFS 2008, Agile has a script, and CMMI has a Requirement. In TFS 2010, Agile has a user story, and CMMI has a requirement.

Answer 2

In TFS 2010, you can right-click on a project and select "Team Project Process Guidance". This forces you to save the html page and then prompts you to open it. When the page opens, it will be an MSDN page containing information about the process template that is used for the team project.

For example, if you created a team project with the CMMi v5.0 process template, then you will get the MSDN page for CMMi v5.0, if it was created using Agile 5.0, then you will get the MSDN page for Agile v5 +0.0.

This way you can determine which process template your project is based on.

Hope this is helpful. (after almost a year and a half of initial publication, I'm not sure, but maybe for other users).

Regards, Kuraish.

Answer 3

By examining the status of the task workflow on your project portal, you can easily tell which procress template the TFS project belongs to.

For scrum: workflow states: New, Approved, Committed, Done, Removed

For flexible: new, active, allowed, closed, deleted

For CMMI: proposed, active, authorized, closed

Additional differences between process templates can be found here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ms400752%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

Hope this helps.