For the Information Needs of a Programmer/Analyst
The variety of hats that a programmer/analyst can wear within an organization is as large as the data consumption of the 21st Century is ravenous. The information needs that accompany these roles are just as large. Visual Studio Team Foundation Server is the answer. With a myriad of capabilities, a staggering level of customizability, and a powerful backend to handle most of the heavy lifting, TFS is the solution to the data access problems of the modern IS Department.
For the Information Needs of a Programmer/Analyst Job Description
A Programmer/Analyst will encounter a wide variety of job responsibilities and environments in the professional realm. The following is a list of some of the responsibilities a programmer can encounter, a brief description of each, the information needs for each description, and how our chosen software suite (Visual Studio Team Foundations Server) handles each item.
“My personal experience with TFS vs. (Subversion) et al is that initial setup for TFS is cake and provides excellent integration out of the box. My Svn/ VisualSVN/CC.NET/ NAnt implementation took me days to get installed and integrated (first timer!). Once up and running, they both work well, but (i) prefer TFS.” – Post from StackOverflow.com
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
Initial Setup for TFS is Cake
1. Planning, developing, testing, and documenting new systems or modifications to existing systems
The primary job that a programmer will have is systems development. They can be tasked with new systems development, to create a system where there hasn’t previously been one, or they can be tasked with modifying an existing system. The goal of legacy systems modification could be to add new functionality, improve old or broken functionality, or just modernize systems that were written with older technologies
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