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ALM Requirements to Production
Improve: Productivity, Clarity, Quality and Collaboration
Most stakeholders today contribute to project requirements using Microsoft Office tools; however
issues like information fragmentation, redundancy and lack of reuse leave stakeholders wanting.
SmartOffice4TFS is the missing link in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) process,
bringing Microsoft Team Foundation Server functionality and connectivity into Microsoft Office.
SmartOffice4TFS provides stakeholders with a direct, two-way connection between Microsoft
Office and TFS via plugins for Word, Visio, Excel and Outlook; creating a ‘single source of truth’.
SMARTOFFICE4TFS
SmartWord4TFS is a Microsoft plugin that enables
you to seamlessly integrate Microsoft Word with Team
Foundation Server.
It makes collaboration easier by giving all
stakeholders access to Smart documents and the
ability to author, review, edit, and discuss work items
and create reports simultaneously.
Document templates can be customized to your
specifications in minutes.
SmartVisio4TFS provides seamless integration
between Microsoft Visio and Team Foundation Server.
Designed to work with any type of diagram and model,
it allows you to create linked work items from
individual elements in the diagram. It also provides a
visual status of requirements, along with analytics.
SmartVisio4TFS can analyze your business process
models and automatically generate test cases that
cover all the scenarios in your process.
With SmartWord4TFS you can easily:
With SmartVisio4TFS you can easily:
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Access any TFS process template.
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Visually author TFS work items through models.
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Create and manage work items within Word.
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Link Visio documents and elements with work items.
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Get work items from TFS queries into Word .
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Auto-detect and create usage scenarios.
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View and update work item details.
Author requirements for one project and then connect the
document to another project, thereby reusing common
work items.
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Save the diagram visual as an attachment or an image
to the linked work item.
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Create a hyperlink to a Visio file in the work item.
Author SmartWord templates in multiple languages.
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Create standard document templates using the SmartWord
template Wizard.
Collect meta data from TFS and display its status in a
diagram: produce data graphics.
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Incrementally publish work items from a SmartWord
document, and refresh content in Word from TFS.
Bring TFS work items into Visio and display them as a
mind map: work item visualization.
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Hover over diagram shapes and lines and quickly view
the related work item defects.
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Bulk add work items in a diagram.
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Create screen mock-ups of the application using the
native TFS PowerPoint Storyboarding interface and link
it to shapes and work items.
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Generate reports and specifications.
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Standardize requirements document templates.
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Share documents with external reviewers/approvers; with
discussion and rating of each item.
BENEFITS
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Increase efficiency and project quality.
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Extend the value of your Microsoft TFS investment.
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Engage all stakeholders, improve collaboration.
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Reduce time and save money.
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Satisfy compliance and audit requirements.
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Continue to use the Office tools you know & love.
30-Day Free Trial Offer
To try a full-featured version of
www.ModernRequirements.com
SmartOffice4TFS risk-free for
30 days,
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SmartOutlook4TFS is a Microsoft Outlook
plug-in that enables you to
seamlessly
Integrate Microsoft Outlook with Visual Studio
Team Foundation Server.
SmartOutlook4TFS can easily convert emails
and tasks to work items and organize them using
Outlook views. Create an easy
transition
between email communication and work item
management.
SmartExcel4TFS, a Microsoft Excel plug-in, automates the generation of user defined traceability matrices from
Microsoft TFS, including: requirements
traceability, defect analysis and work item decomposition matrices.
What used to take days, now can be done in minutes.
With SmartExcel4TFS, large volumes of work items and
their relationships in TFS can be visualized and
organized in a variety of different perspectives, right
from
within
Excel.
Creating,
analyzing
and
understanding how information is linked is critical to
With SmartOutlook4TFS you can easily:
With SmartExcel4TFS you can easily:
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Create work items from within Outlook.
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Create a Requirements Traceability Matrix with
complete requirements coverage.
Create a new work item from an email.
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Author and link new work items in an Outlook grid.
Retrieve data and display it in a traceable
manner from TFS to Excel.
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Attach a list of emails to a work item.
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See work items along with the associated work
items that are linked with them.
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Insert multiple work items in an email.
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Organize and view TFS queries from Outlook.
Select the properties that should appear in a
traceability matrix and define the color coding
rules.
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Create new work items from an Outlook task.
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Follow a review and approval workflow in Outlook.
Individual work items can be updated by using
the familiar interface of TFS and saved to TFS .
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View test coverage by requirement.
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View the test coverage of work items.
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View test cases with their associated defects.
Manage backlog using configured workflows.
BENEFITS

Increase efficiency and project quality.

Extend the value of your Microsoft TFS investment.

Engage all stakeholders, improve collaboration.

Reduce time and save money.

Satisfy compliance and audit requirements.

Continue to use the Office tools you know & love.
30-Day Free Trial Offer
To try a full-featured version of
www.ModernRequirements.com
SmartOffice4TFS risk-free for
30 days,
come
visit
CONNECTING EVERYONE WITH TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER
Modern Requirements | [email protected] | 1-877-473-2881 | www.modernrequirements.com
us
at
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ABOUT MODERN REQUIREMENTS
Project success is based on open communication, effective collaboration, and the use of intelligent systems.
At Modern Requirements this has been our goal since 1999. Helping others to achieve this continues to be at
the core of our business.
SmartOffice4TFS adds to our line of ALM tools that includes inteGREAT, widely considered the best BA
Requirements Power Tool on the market today.

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