Software development organizations that use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) as the standard platform for enacting their life cycle processes use IRIS Process Author to construct process templates that cater to their specific enterprise environment. IRIS Process Author can be used to tailor one of the two existing Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) templates that are shipped with VSTS, or to assemble new process templates that mirror organization’s unique processes. VSTS instantiates the resulting process templates across multiple development projects. The combination of IRIS as an authoring environment and VSTS as an enactment platform constitutes a leading process automation solution for the process-centric enterprise. |