Microsoft’s OEM development team was using tools that were not integrated and were housed on separate servers. Moreover, the disparate architectures were difficult to manage. The Microsoft Visual Source Safe® for code source control that the team used was not integrated with the manual build system or reporting system that made code branching strategy complex and challenging.

Key Insight:

How TCS along with Microsoft’s OEM IT team automated and integrated the entire software development life cycle using Visual Studio 2005 Team System that brought a high level of collaboration in the team.