{"id":8141,"date":"2008-01-24T08:19:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T08:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2008\/01\/24\/teamspec-by-personify-design-is-shipping\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:27:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:27:36","slug":"teamspec-by-personify-design-is-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/teamspec-by-personify-design-is-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"TeamSpec by Personify Design is Shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managing requirements is a hot topic with software development teams these days.&nbsp; I get a lot of questions from people about how to use TFS to manage requirements.&nbsp; When we think about requirements management, we break it into two parts &#8211; Elicitation\/Capture and Analysis\/Traceability.&nbsp; Today TFS really has no feature for elicitation &#8211; you can use standard work item entry forms but many business analysts consider that too clunky.\nThere are many ways to capture requirements.&nbsp; Some people prefer pictures, some to rely mostly on mind maps and some on Word documents.&nbsp; Today a new option for managing TFS requirements as Word documents is available.&nbsp; Personify&#8217;s TeamSpec product allows you to capture requirements in Word, publish them to TFS and maintain a bi-directional synchronization between the document that people can read and the work items that the team is working on.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve seen a lot of demand for this functionality and expect this tool to be pretty popular.&nbsp; I encourage you to check it out if solving this problem is a priority for you.\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.personifydesign.com\/images\/products\/teamspec\/ts6.gif\">\nYou can read more about it on a <a href=\"http:\/\/meet.personifydesign.com\/blogs\/juanjperez\/archive\/2008\/01\/19\/210.aspx\">Personify Design Blog post<\/a>.\nThey&#8217;ve also produced some very nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personifydesign.com\/products\/teamspec\/discover.aspx\">videos<\/a> you can watch to see the features in action.\nOr you can test drive it your self with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personifydesign.com\/products\/teamspec\/download.aspx\">trial download<\/a>.\n&nbsp;\nI look forward to hearing what you think of it.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing requirements is a hot topic with software development teams these days.&nbsp; I get a lot of questions from people about how to use TFS to manage requirements.&nbsp; When we think about requirements management, we break it into two parts &#8211; Elicitation\/Capture and Analysis\/Traceability.&nbsp; Today TFS really has no feature for elicitation &#8211; you can [&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],"class_list":["post-8141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Managing requirements is a hot topic with software development teams these days.&nbsp; I get a lot of questions from people about how to use TFS to manage requirements.&nbsp; When we think about requirements management, we break it into two parts &#8211; Elicitation\/Capture and Analysis\/Traceability.&nbsp; Today TFS really has no feature for elicitation &#8211; you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}