Express India Article

Story on Express Computer on the adoption of VSTS and Sharepoint in my team: http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20090112/management03.shtml

Has a nice photo of yours truly too :)

A mail circulated to stakeholders at Microsoft by the media company says (till the end of the post):

Quoted in the story Siddhesh Bhobe, Associate Vice President-Microsoft Technology Practice and IVV, Persistent Systems said, "It was getting difficult for the team manager to remember what needs to be done and take tasks to completion. Tasks would fall off the plate and would become very difficult to track. This development helped in quicker deployment cycles of the tool ensuring that people get to start using it sooner and also feedback could be incorporated in a timely fashion, Continuously changing requirements and updates to the business processes and workflows are a big challenge to any such system. The system needs to be nimble and very easy to customize and adapt to changing needs. Sharepoint made it very easy to keep it simple and very customizable with minimum disruption to the team”

Other comments provided by the writer are as below with point 1 and point 2 as the sub headline in the story:
1. Persistent Systems has deployed Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2005 CVSTS) to expedite the process of generating reports automatically and to enhance the existing development environment

2. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2005 provides Persistent with a programming model and infrastructure that lets developers create scalable and secure connected applications

3. Through the tool, now, all that the team lead needs to do is add the resource to the project using the given InfoPath form and all the tasks that need to be done are generated as tasks and can very easily be tracked.

4. The solution integrated well with other Microsoft applications, optimized its system architecture and advanced the quality and speed of its development process. VSTS offers all the features that are required to automate the processes during different phases of the software development cycle.

The story ends with a positive note explaining that Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2005 provides Persistent with a programming model and infrastructure that lets developers create scalable and secure connected applications. This helps in increasing productivity, better manage and understand the application life cycle, and increase software quality.

The story is extremely impactful and strong to bring out the messaging of Microsoft tools in the SDLC space and how it has benefited existing customers.