Recently, Microsoft has started thinking aloud about a new service that would host Visual Studio Team System.  I wish I had thought of it!  If done appropriately, I believe this could be beneficial for a variety of development team scenarios - especially distributed teams.  I hope they consider what services that could be added to this.  Imagine the following scenarios:

• I would like a consulting resource to do a security review of my newly developed application.


• I want to pay a testing company to do a real set of testing and send me the results.


• I want Conchango to implement Scrum in my VSTS project and teach me how remotely.


• I want a consultant to work on a specific coding task in my .NET application - and he's 1 million miles away.


• I want my application to go through the ISV certification process.


• I'm building an open source application and would want others not part of my company to work on the project.


• I work in a small development shop with very limited resources and has several international offices.


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