
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
Phase 2 is proud to announce a one-of-a-kind service - Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server offers a single collaborative platform for software developers working together towards a common goal. In today’s environment of geographically separated teams, multi-tiered contracts and customer’s need for information regarding the status of their projects, the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server from Phase 2 becomes a key component of the operation.
Getting more from your Hosted TFS
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server is more than just source control. In addition to a robust and advanced source control engine backed by SQL Server, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
has the tools and applications to enable the management of a distributed team of developers, including the ability to largely automate project management and code acceptance. With the proper configuration, each of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server’s various services, including Source Control, Work Item Tracking, SharePoint Project sites and Reporting Services all can be exposed to the web. A clever application project manager can then leverage the advanced check in policies of the source control services to require labels and comments. Visual Studio Team Foundation Server can also require
that code passes unit and system tests, code analysis policies, as well as successfully build. If newly checked in code causes build or test failures for the complete integrated system, automatic bugs can be generated as work items. Third party project acceptance can be dependent on these policies, as well as successful integration builds and system tests thus extending test driven development to test driven acceptance. This of course is in addition to the various project management and collaboration services provided by the built in SharePoint Project Sites and Work Item tracking reports that provide project status and health visibility to management.
Throughout all of this, the Project Managers are the key coordinators for their projects. All team member status updates, document progress, deliverables and scheduling is automatically routed to the Project Manager for their approval before changing the master files that are displayed through the web to the rest of the team. This gives them the opportunity to ask clarifying questions, double check work, approve time and adjust priorities on the fly - without affecting the team.
From small organizations with one or two ongoing projects to multi-national corporations with thousands of concurrent projects, the MS Visual Studio Team Foundation Server hosting from Phase 2 is a perfect solution. TFS hosting will increase and maintain visibility to all parties and keep the project on-time and on-budget.