Visual Studio Team System

If you haven’t seen this, see it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040603TeamSystemBH/manifest.xml

It looks like Microsoft has
finally responded to enterprise development team needs in terms of Software Development
LifeCycle tools.

Issue Management
Project Management Integration
A true split for team member roles ( Architect, Developer, Tester )
Shared Code Clipping
Model driven code generation
A complete revamp for VSS ( thank you, thank you, thank you )

According to the Visual
Studio 2005 Team System FAQ

This summer, customers will receive an official Beta release of Visual Studio 2005.
This beta will include only the Team Architect Edition portion of the Team System.

Beginning this fall, customers will receive additional Community Technology Preview
builds of Visual Studio 2005 that will include Visual Studio Team System.

Visual Studio 2005, including Visual Studio Team System, will ship in the first half
of calendar year 2005.

MSDN Universal and MSDN Enterprise subscribers will be shipped copies of all pre-release
versions of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Team System.