Object Consulting, Microsoft's Visual Studio Partner
Object Consulting, to ship Process Mentor with Microsoft's Visual Studio ALM tools
SYDNEY, 12 Aprill, 2010: Object Consulting, Microsoft's Visual Studio Industry Partner, announce plans to simultaneously ship Process Mentor with Visual Studio ALM tools.Process Mentor provides a platform for Visual Studio ALM tool users to set-up their own processes and methods, which can be imported into Visual Studio and used as tailorable / configurable, hierarchical work-items.
This platform provides developers with an environment in which they can understand their performance, enabling:
• The ability to roll-up development processes to the project level for, development time, time-to-complete, and overall process performance
• Development managers are able to see at a glance how complete a work item is, due to the dynamic effort data provided
• Integration of Process Mentor - TeamGuide, Visual Studio ALM tools, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Project means we have the whole team on the same page, even though they may be using different views / products
• Insertion, within the development environment, of guidance for developers and the rest of the project team
• The ability to include your own governance, project management, and development methodologies into Visual Studio ALM tool process templates.
Background:
Process Mentor synthesizes Object Consulting’s 20+ years of application development, into applications that help developers create, modify and enhance process architecture.
A commercially proven methodology, Process Mentor helps accelerate project ramp-up and implementation, development productivity and consistency, continuous improvement, greater visibility and the rapid take-up of ‘lessons learnt’. As well as interfacing with Visual Studio, Process Mentor interfaces with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Compuware’s Changepoint.
Quotes:
Dave Mendlen, senior director of Developer Marketing at Microsoft Corp:
“Process Mentor’s ability to include user customised templates, processes, and roll-up reports into the Visual Studio environment provides extensions which most developers, software development managers, and project managers should not be without.”
Object Consulting’s Brent Cahill, Product Manager - Process Mentor:
“Process Mentor was designed to help get the whole team on the same page. Even if people are using different views or different Microsoft products – such as Visual Studio ALM tools, Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft Project – they can monitor, update and contribute to achieving successful project outcomes.”
“This product distils the IP that Object Consulting has built up over more than 20 years of successful software developments. In a sense, it is the sum total of our experience in how to deliver successful project outcomes. We are delighted that, through being sim-shipped with Visual Studio 2010, our methodology will be made available to the widest possible audience of potential users, to help them deliver the best possible software outcomes on MS projects.”
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