Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack is now in Beta

Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack is now in Beta

We at Sela Group already working with a customer working with TFS-PS Feature Pack CTP for Integration between TFS 2010 and Project Server 2010, now all customers can get this support as “Go Live” Beta.

I’ve post about VS/TFS 2010 SP1 Beta has Released and Here is another great news from Brian Harry for TFS 2010 and Project Server Users:

The TFS-PS Feature Pack is being released to MSDN subscribers today as a “go-live” Beta.  That means Microsoft believe it is ready to be installed and used in a production environment.

What Does it Do?

In short, TFS <-> Project Server integration is a server side synchronization/workflow tool that enables project managers who use Project Server to share up to date project status and resource availability with development teams who use Team Foundation Server whether they use formal or Agile development processes.  It enables the two constituencies to work in the tools of their choice and at a granularity that is most comfortable to them.  Project managers can work in fairly high level tasks using a long range plan.  Developers can see the plan and decompose the high level tasks into detailed assignments in whatever fashion works best for them.  As tasks are decomposed and work is completed, Project Server is updated with both resource availability and task progress.  Of course, all of this ties into the standard Project Server work approval process so that the project manager maintains some control over the high level plan and changes can be deliberate rather than random.  If a project manager wants to deal with all of the detail of the development team, they can configure the integration to import all task breakdown – but for projects that are very large, it’s likely to be overwhelming.

Read More at Brian Harry Blog

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