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Recently I was sent an email asking me for some advice on using TFS with the scrum for team systems plug-in for managing testing tasks and defect tracking on an agile project. I thought the answers might be useful to others, so I have posted them here:Basically I want to use VSTS / TFS (with the Conchango template) to manage functional testing as ...

Today marks the end of Sprint 6 of development for ''Scrum for Team System''. This release is targeted against Team Foundation Server Release Candidate - it will not work on any previous version of Team Foundation Server. We've spent a lot of time improving the product thanks to some great feedback from our Beta Testers and internal teams who have ...

Today marks the end of the 3rd Sprint of development on the Scrum Plug-In for Visual Studio Team System. We're working towards getting a new release (Beta 2) out sometime on Monday. We've spent a lot of the past month improving the installer (see Stuart's blog for all you could possibly want to know about Wix) , the reports, ...

I created a series of screen capture walkthrough guides to show people on the Beta Program how to use the Scrum Plug-in for Team System. I will be making more available on the ''General Discussion'' area of the forum as soon as I have time. But I thought I'd post a couple of them up here for people who are interested in what the Plug-in can do. ...

After a very busy couple of weeks we've got to a point where we're happy to release the first Beta of the Scrum Plug-in for Team System. This release is targetted at users running the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and a single server installation of Team Foundation Server Beta 3 refresh. To get a copy of the ...

As Colin has mentioned in his latest post, as soon as we've stabilized on Team System Beta 3 Refresh we'll start our beta program. If you would like to be part of it please email us at betascrum@conchango.com - and tell us a little bit about yourself and the environment you'd use it in.

A few weeks ago I managed to steal a couple of hours of Ken Schwabers' time and recorded a series of 10 minute podcasts where Ken answers some of the more frequently asked questions about the Scrum Process. The FAQ will ship, in written form, with the “Agile Software Development with Scrum” Visual Studio Team System plug-in which will be ...

In Team System the Work Item Type (WIT) is the currency of application – you use them to define your tasks, requirements, bugs etc… This data is stored in the Team Foundation Server data warehouse and can be queried either by using the Work Item Query Language (WIQL) or by coding against the data warehouse fields in SQL Server 2005 Reporting ...

As we near the launch date for Visual Studio 2005 (and the Team System Beta 3 refresh) I thought it was about time I gave a progress update on the work Colin Bird, Stuart Preston, Susie Kablean and I have been doing on the “Agile Software Development with Scrum” Visual Studio Team System plug-in and hopefully get some feedback from the ...

A few weeks ago I spent an afternoon trawling the Scrum Development Yahoo-Group and Google trying to collate a list of questions for the Scrum FAQ that will ship with the “Agile Software Development with Scrum” Visual Studio Team System plug-in that Colin Bird, Stuart Preston, Susie Kablean and I are currently working on. I came up with a ...