TeamLook? connects Microsoft Outlook with Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server enabling all software project stakeholders to gain accurate visibility into project status.

TeamSpec? (beta) connects Microsoft Word with Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server enabling a rich project requirement management experience from Microsoft Word.

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Communications is the core foundation of any project team. It is the mechanism by which people, the project's most important entity, are empowered to collaborate, drive ideas, ultimately realize results

A Work Item is a project entity that tracks accountability and serves as a central referencing device. For example, a Work Item of type Bug describes a defect in a project, is always assigned to a project member, and can have attached or referenced files as well as other objects.

Features	Benefits
Create Work Item from an email Create Team System Work Items, of the defined Project Work Item Types, from Outlook Mails.	Combine the communication and team projects domains.
Team Foundation Server and Project Folder View Manage VSTS Team Projects along side Outlook folders	Single view into communication and project structure.
Team Reporting Run Team Reports directly from Outlook	Generate Team Reports directly
Meeting Invitation from Work Item Create a Meeting Invitation from a Work Item	Automatically populate meeting invitation information from Work Item

Once a Work Item is created, it is often used as a central repository of communications. There are many challenges with this usage pattern, the main one being the fact that communications occurs in many different places by many different people who may or may not have the ability to view/edit a Project Work Item. In addition to this limitation, very significant communication occurs before the Work Item was created. This pre-Work Item communication is especially important for those people who become accountable for a Work Item later in the project. By providing communication based context these contributors can be informed and empowered to make the correct decision.

Personify Design's Teamlook brings together the structure of a Visual System 2005 Team System Project and the flexibility of communicating using Microsoft Outlook 2003.