TFS Process Customisation Part 1: Work Item Types

So, as mentioned in my last post, I’ve been working on a project to create a Process Template that covers one of our internal software lifecycle processes.

The first part of this project that I’ve been working on is customising Work Item Types. We’ve got a few to do, and it’s not so much a “customisation” process as a “create from scratch” process, because the work items we’re creating really bear no resemblance to the out-of-the-box ones. To start with, I’ve got over 90 fields to define, up to 13 states and something like 25 transitions to define per work item type…I’ve been wondering why I let myself in for this recently!! J

Still, most of the work item types I need are just variations on a theme, so once I’ve got the first one done, the rest will be mostly cut-and-paste jobs…