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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...