What is Team Foundation?
Microsoft has been in the business of creating sophisticated software for a long time. Large teams crank out and maintain complex code bases over multiple releases continuously. To be successful at producing software, we've had to develop effective approaches for version control, defect and work item tracking, and build management.

At the same time, we've spent considerable time with customers and industry experts to understand the broad spectrum of project management approaches employed by enterprise customers on a regular basis. With the help of the Microsoft Solutions Framework team, we've distilled the essence of these techniques into a set of flexible project management elements.

We have now combined the results of our experience and investigation in software creation and methodologies to produce a set of new technologies and techniques geared toward optimizing the process of developing software in teams. The result of this effort is Team Foundation.

There are two sides to Team Foundation. On one hand, it's a collection of features shared by the various members of a project team to enable them to work together more effectively. Team members can share project plans, work products, and progress assessments easily and naturally.

Next: the major features of Team Foundation...

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