Thursday, June 30, 2005 - Posts

Team System

I'm spending some quality time with Team System these days. I am very impressed.

The biggest challenge to date has been installation. In fact, I have yet to successfully install Team Foundation Server. I suspect a deployment and configuration marketing opportunity for more challenges may exist here...

Were it not for the VSTSBeta2 DVD, I would not be experimenting with Team System at all.

There are lots of cool things to like about Team System:

  • The framework integrates seamlessly into the Visual Studio 2005 IDE.
  • SharePoint and Reporting Services are used to report status.
  • The default development methodology is Agile.
  • Test-Driven Development templates are supplied, which provide a mechanism for recording (forcing, in some cases) unit test results.
  • Project Management tools integration - though I have not had an opportunity to tinker with this yet.

All in all, a major step forward in software development life cycle - kudos to Microsoft!

:{> Andy