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Before we release a v1.0 of TeamSpec, we want to share the state of the product.  We’re very close to making the v1.0 release and wanted to make one final pre-release update both to get more feedback as well as make some final improvements.  If you downloaded our last release (Beta) you will notice that we’ve made significant progress towards the vision of making the document an environment where the Business Analyst and Project Manager (and extended team) can manage the planning and change process for software projects completely integrated with TFS. 

TeamSpec can be seen as the natural evolution of a TFS work item form since you can create a document from a single work item or a group of work items.  The exciting part is that you decide on the formatting/structure the work item fields while enjoying the benefits of Microsoft Word. 

This release has improvements in the following areas:

1.       Managing changes in documents

2.       Online/Offline transition

3.       Locating documents published to SharePoint through work item links

4.       Associating content in documents to new work items using templates (bulk work item creation)

5.       Performance

6.       General usability

Check out the Discover TeamSpec section which has been redone for this release.  It’s a great walk through on the new interface and feature set.

With this release, we have decided to build TeamSpec exclusively on Word 2007 since Word 2003 did not have core functionality required to make TeamSpec usable.

We look forward to hearing your feedback and thanks again for the support!