team server the solution

[Wendy Elizabeth]

woul I would like to know what Microsoft product(s) would be could used for
the following results and what the price
of the recommended product would be:

I work for a small company that would like to keep track of the following:
1. the workload of each employee,
2. how many hours are assigned to each each employee for a project,
3. How many hours each employee have spent on each project,
4. A way to tell if an employee is on track for meeting the project
deadlines,
5. A way to tell an employee how many hours they should be working on each
project they are assigned to.
6. A way to set priorities on the workload for each employee.
7. A way to change the priotities of each employee dynamically.

**I would consider products where I would need to do some setup and/or
programming on my side.

Thanks!d 'team' foundation solve my situation?

 

[RobinS]

woul I would like to know what Microsoft product(s) would be could used
for
the following results and what the price
of the recommended product would be:

I work for a small company that would like to keep track of the following:
1. the workload of each employee,
2. how many hours are assigned to each each employee for a project,
3. How many hours each employee have spent on each project,
4. A way to tell if an employee is on track for meeting the project
deadlines,
5. A way to tell an employee how many hours they should be working on
each
project they are assigned to.
6. A way to set priorities on the workload for each employee.
7. A way to change the priotities of each employee dynamically.

**I would consider products where I would need to do some setup and/or
programming on my side.

Thanks!d 'team' foundation solve my situation?

Yes, I believe it would. We just started using it, and I haven't delved
deeply into TFS, but am already using it for most of these. You can download
a trial version and try it out.

RobinS.

 

[Guest]

Yes, I believe it would. We just started using it, and I haven't
delved deeply into TFS, but am already using it for most of these. You
can download a trial version and try it out.

How much does team server cost? Seems like in the 10K+ range?

 

[RobinS]

How much does team server cost? Seems like in the 10K+ range?

Yes, I think you're right. We were using the 90-day trial. I found out today
that we are going to use Team Explorer on top of Visual Studio 2008, finding
it gives us all of the functionality we need for a lot less moolah.


Here's a handy-dandy comparison of the versions of VS2008.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc149003.aspx

RobinS.
GoldMail, Inc.

 

[Guest]

Yes, I think you're right. We were using the 90-day trial. I found out
today that we are going to use Team Explorer on top of Visual Studio
2008, finding it gives us all of the functionality we need for a lot
less moolah.

We use SouceGear products for source control. They have a team solution
called Fortress. SouceGear Vault gets pretty good reviews from around here,
might be worth a look at Fortress.

 

[RobinS]

We use SouceGear products for source control. They have a team solution
called Fortress. SouceGear Vault gets pretty good reviews from around
here,
might be worth a look at Fortress.

Thanks, I'll pass that on, although we seem to be pretty committed to using
TFS at this point. We are using it to track all of our work, and everybody
seems pretty happy with it.

RobinS.
GoldMail, Inc.