{"id":11121,"date":"2015-08-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2015\/08\/12\/smartoffice4tfs-and-integreat4tfs-available-for-visual-studio-enterprise-with-msdn-subscribers\/"},"modified":"2019-02-16T22:46:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:46:35","slug":"smartoffice4tfs-and-integreat4tfs-available-for-visual-studio-enterprise-with-msdn-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/smartoffice4tfs-and-integreat4tfs-available-for-visual-studio-enterprise-with-msdn-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"SmartOffice4TFS and inteGREAT4TFS available for Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managing requirements is an incredibly important part of the software development process for everyone.&nbsp; Different teams approach the problem very differently &ndash; from very lightweight\/informal ways to very formal and documented ways.&nbsp; The needs of your business and the culture of your organization will determine what&rsquo;s right for you.<\/p>\n<p>For years, we&rsquo;ve worked with partners to provide great requirements management capabilities for Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online.&nbsp; eDevTech provides a suite of tools that provide solutions spanning from relatively informal ways of managing requirements &ndash; simple Word documents, up to very formal ways &ndash; baselining, traceability matrices, requirements simulation, etc.&nbsp; Their tools integrate incredibly well with TFS and VS Online and can fit wonderfully into your development workflow &ndash; whatever your level of formality.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m thrilled to say that, together with eDevTech, we are now making SmartOffice4TFS and inteGREAT4TFS available to all Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN users.&nbsp; For more information on these products, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernrequirements.com\">http:\/\/www.modernrequirements.com<\/a>.&nbsp; To access this benefit simply click on the link located on the MSDN My Account page.<\/p>\n<p>The offer includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SmartWord4TFS &ndash; Bidirectionally sync requirements between TFS work items and Word documents.<\/li>\n<li>SmartVisio4TFS &ndash; Annotate Visio diagrams and generate test case diagrams.<\/li>\n<li>SmartExcel4TFS &ndash; Generate traceability matrices.<\/li>\n<li>Baseline4TFS &ndash; Manage baselines and produce release notes.<\/li>\n<li>And more&hellip;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have anyone in your team with VS Enterprise with MSDN, I encourage you to have them check this out.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing requirements is an incredibly important part of the software development process for everyone.&nbsp; Different teams approach the problem very differently &ndash; from very lightweight\/informal ways to very formal and documented ways.&nbsp; The needs of your business and the culture of your organization will determine what&rsquo;s right for you. For years, we&rsquo;ve worked with partners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,8],"class_list":["post-11121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs","tag-vsonline"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Managing requirements is an incredibly important part of the software development process for everyone.&nbsp; Different teams approach the problem very differently &ndash; from very lightweight\/informal ways to very formal and documented ways.&nbsp; The needs of your business and the culture of your organization will determine what&rsquo;s right for you. 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