EMC/Conchango release Scrum for Team System V3 Beta 1

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EMC/Conchango have released Scrum for Team System V3 Beta 1 for use with VSTS/TFS 2010 Beta 1.

Version 3 is designed expressly for TFS 2010, taking advantage of the new platform’s capabilities.

Please be aware that the current beta version of Scrum for Team System has only been tested against TFS 2010 Beta 1; in the near future we will be testing against the forthcoming pre release versions of Visual Studio and will post the outcome of that testing.

Some of the highlights of version 3:

· Sophisticated multi-team support

o Individual team capacity and concurrent teams on different Sprint lengths

o Concurrent teams with the same Sprint length but different start & finish dates

o Add and remove teams on a per-sprint basis

· New QA Model

o Acceptance Test driven

o Microsoft Test & Lab Manager compatible

· New & Extended Reports (limited selection available in Beta 1 – more to follow)

· Event Service Enhancements – provides much more “heavy lifting” and less manual steps

o Transition – one field changing effects another

o Aggregation – sums up related fields

o XML rule set then determines next action

o Composite transition criteria

· Enhanced Work Item Queries

o Leverage hierarchical work item relationships

o Task based queries

If you are interested in participating in the program then please follow the steps below:

  1. Register for a Scrum for Team System Community UserID if you don't already have one.
  2. Send an e-mail requesting to join the Scrum for Team System V3.0 Beta 1 program (Subject: Beta) to ScrumforTeamSystem@emc.com with your UserID and the e-mail address used to create the UserID.
  3. They will send you an email with a link to the Scrum for Team System V3.0 Beta 1 Forum

To follow the latest developments on the Scrum for Team System blog: https://blogs.conchango.com/sfts/, which will also provide links out to the personal blogs of the team.