Eclipse Process Framework

I just got through listening to a year-old podcast (at the time of this writing) by DotNetRocks! in which they interview Scott W. Ambler.

In this podcast, he talks about an interesting tool, the Eclipse Process Framework, and it sounds like a really interesting tool for customizing software development processes:

The Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) aims at producing a customizable software process enginering framework, with exemplary process content and tools, supporting a broad variety of project types and development styles.

I'm not sure if this is something I would use, but one thing is certain:

• no one process works for all organizations.

All groups are different, and some have legacy processes that they prefer or use.

So the notion of being able to pick and choose process components to fit your situation and organization is pretty compelling.

Plus, it's all free and available as an Eclipse plug-in, which is pretty cool too.