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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 ...

As Howard blogged (seemingly whilst I was still deploying the thing last night!) - we've released an update to Scrum for Team System.  The reports are much faster in this version amongst some other changes.  The template itself has not changed. See http://scrumforteamsystem.com/ProcessGuidance/FAQ/WhatsNewFAQ.html for the ...

After an immense amount of hard work from Stuart, Colin and Merrick a new version of Scrum for Team System has been released. Version 1.2 of Scrum for Team System contains a number of changes: Reports Significant performance improvements compared to the v1.1 reports (we recommend you use the Report Installer to upgrade your existing reports to ...

There's a really fascinating video up on Channel 9 about the Visual Studio 2005 SDK team, Phil Taylor talks about the product and his team's approach, using Scrum to enable them to deliver monthly CTP drops and larger releases every quarter to synchronise with Microsoft events such as TechEd, VSLive, PDC etc. I was also really interested to hear ...

The idea for Scrum for Team System happened while Rob Grigg and I were at the Team System TAP in Redmond, in September 2004. I had just finished my first major project using Scrum and was fully possessed with the zeal of the newly converted. At that point Team Foundation Server contained two methodology templates – MSF for Agile Software ...

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, ...