It has been a busy time here at Conchango as we've been making plenty of changes to get Scrum for Team System working on Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server and also incorporating changes driven by community feedback and usage of the plugin on our own development projects.
We should be ready to release after we have tested all the components on the RTM of Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server and Team Suite.
I'll be writing more about the release in the coming weeks but here's a press release, going out today to whet the appetite:
At the Scrum Gathering this week, Conchango is announcing that Scrum for Team System v2.0 Standard Edition will be made available to download free of charge from http://www.scrumforteamsystem.com to coincide with the general availability of Visual Studio Team System 2008.
Community feedback has driven much of the enhancements, which builds on the success of the first version. The enhancements include:
- A new Release and Sprint model.
- Sophisticated bug resolution workflow.
- Multiple release views of the Product Backlog.
- Day by day Release Burndown report.
- Support for User Story format in the Product Backlog.
- Support for estimates in Story Points or Days in the Product Backlog.
- Improved reporting functionality and performance.
- Compatibility with Visual Studio Team System 2008.
- Compatibility with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
We are still working on tasks for release, and will make further information available as soon as the template is released publicly.
I'll hopefully be demoing Scrum for Team System v2.0 at the Agile Development Practices conference in Orlando on December 6th 2007. Watch this space for more information.