Architect and Design Distributed Systems
Sound architectural decisions are the key to project success. Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects provides powerful new visual designers for service-oriented solution modeling. These new visual designers increase productivity and help architects and operations managers make sound architectural decisions by validating their solutions against the operational environment early in the application life cycle.
Utilize Proven Development Practices
Design architecturally sound applications by leveraging integrated guidance, frameworks, and tools from Microsoft's patterns & practices team, while encouraging reuse by easily disseminating organization-specific components, frameworks, and patterns. Additionally, the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) provides a set of software development processes, principles, and proven practices for the entire software development life cycle -- from requirements through to deployment.
Improve Collaboration and Communication
All Visual Studio Team Editions are deeply integrated with Team Foundation Server to give team members complete visibility into all development artifacts and activities on a project, reducing issues related to poor communication and improving team productivity and effectiveness.