Book excerpt: Visual Studio 2005 Team System is a large and complex product, and is arguably the most sophisticated development environment that Microsoft has ever built. It has enormous potential to improve people’s working lives by allowing them to draw together disparate tasks within a single reporting and testing structure. In order to do this people need a guide, and this book provides that guidance. It walks readers through a fictional scenario containing all the problems that Team System was built to remedy and shows how the product can be best applied to solve the problems of architects, developers, testers and project managers alike.