Mostafa,
We've given this a bit of collective thought where I work. TFS is used
by a large (and growing) number of teams across many platforms,
technologies, geographic locations and political persuasions within our
organisation. There are no easy answers that cover every situation.
We are taking the view that our team projects will be based firstly
around our software products, then secondly around the projects or work
initiatives that go into producing the software.
What that means is that our project structure looks like this
<Software Product> (Team Project)
<Release or Version> (Folder - usually maps to a specific
set of tasks making up a development project
<Technology Platform> (In some (ideal) cases
this split won't make sense but in cases where there is a strong team
split based on platform we'll work this way.)
<Branches, Folders, etc>
We're aware that this might mean that at some point a team project might
get so full of work items, reports, etc that we'd need to start again
with a new Team Project, but what we're aiming for is a top-level view
that reflects the software products, so that people across our (large ad
dispersed) organisation can browse software products that fall outside
there primary scope of work easily. We're trying to think about what
TFS store will look like in 5 years time, and organise things so that it
will make sense even when the current crop of developers have moved on.
There's no easy answer, since software products merge and split due to
business requirements and for technical reasons. But generally we think
that that's the view we'd want to have in 5 years from now, rather than
a view that primarily shows project initiatives.
Hope this is of interest.
Justin.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Mostafa Arafa
Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:24
To: [email protected]
Subject: [OzTFS] Best Practise in managing TFS Projects
Hi All,
In case you have a project, and you want to create a new
release of the same project.
Implementing the branch concept is ok from the source safe ,shall I
create a new project for it or I can use the same one ?
What I can say ,the TFS doesn't support the different releases concept
in project level, that's why we need to create a new project for each
new relase, especially if you have different document, security,
reports....etc.
Regards,
Mostafa Arafa
MCSD,MCTS,MCT,C# MVP
<https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/profile=AD272725-2AE3-42
C6-9AFC-89A75A7A5197>
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