How to change a project from Scrum to CMMI in VSTS

Question

We migrated a project from TFS 2015 to VSTS recently as a Scrum project as it was in TFS. But we want the project to be using the CMMI process template.

Now, how can we migrate the existing project from Scrum to CMMI process template?

Answer 1

According to MS documentation (here) ...

You can change the process a team project uses from a system process or inherited process to an inherited process. You can only change team projects to use another process that inherits from the same system process. That is, you can change an Agile-based team project to any process you created from the Agile system process as well as to the Agile process. Whereas, you can't change a Scrum-based team project to an Agile-derived inherited process.

But you could still create a new team project based on CMMI and then move your source code and workitems to that new team project. To move workitems you can export them to Excel, create a new Excel connection to VSTS, that is connected to the new team project, and then copy the workitems and pushing them from the new Excel file into the new project.

Answer 2

You can custom a process when using Hosted XML, the changes made to the process template are then applied to all team projects using that process.

More information: Customize a process when using Hosted XML