Many organizations are choosing to adopt Team System for various reasons. Whether your decision is based on a better source control system, the testing tools or primarily a cost factor, we can help. You may not quite understand the full capabilities of Team System or how to get started. We recommend a 'three-phased' approach that consists of training, consulting and an effective installation.
Maybe you are still evaluating Team System and are unsure if it is the right solution for you? You have seen demos and heard it costs less than competitor tools, but you still have questions? Notion Solutions offers Envisioning Sessions and/or Proof of Concepts. We can guide you through the features of Team System as you try to understand how the product can help your organization.
Envisioning sessions are are 2-way discussions on-site with your IT team. We ask you questions about your software development practices and answer your questions about Team System. We work with you to determine how Team System can help you efficiently build better software.
A Proof of Concept (POC) effort provides the ability for your organization to use and review Visual Studio Team System in the enterprise environment. The focus of this effort is to evaluate Team System and its effectiveness against your current environment.
Collaborative Projects
There are often great demands on IT from their business customers. Collaborative projects enable you to maintain control of your software projects by owning the project timeline. In most of our collaborative projects, we provide minimal project management assistance, and some analysis assistance. We provide much more assistance with design, architecture and development. This allows you to leverage your superior understanding of your business, while gaining additional help to deliver better software systems faster.
Outsourced Projects
In today's marketplace, it isn't always cost-effective to build and run your own IT systems. Notion Solutions excels in application development and can build systems that make your business run cost effectively and give you a competitive edge. We can outsource your development projects in many ways. On outsourced projects, we provide a large degree of project management and business analysis. These projects contain much more inherent risk than collaborative projects. To minimize this risk, we focus heavily on iterative development methodologies that allow us to deliver results on regularly scheduled intervals. These interim deliverables can include updated project plans, test plans and working versions of the functionality implemented for that iteration. This helps gives you visibility into our status and enables a stronger feedback loop.
Customization
Visual Studio Team System was built from the ground up with customization in mind. It provides many great tools and services out of the box. But to truly take advantage of its power, you'll want to adapt it to better fit into your environment. Notion Solutions provides experience in customizing VSTS to your needs, including:
° Process Templates
° Work Items
° Reports
° Build Scripts
Extensibility
In addition to the extreme flexibility Visual Studio Team System offers for customization, it also provides a vast framework for extensibility. We can develop custom components and add-ins to make VSTS completely successful in your environment. As part of our services offerings, we will work with you to define your requirements and build VSTS extensions for:
° Integration with existing corporate systems.
° Custom Build Tasks.
° Custom web pages and web parts for interacting with VSTS