Crispin Parker has written a very inter­esting post on the basics of EMC2's free Scrum for Team System v3 process template. Recommended!

EMC2 (formerly Conchango) has released its much-​​awaited Scrum for Team System v3 template for Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010. The template is available in 2 versions, x86 and x64. This is great news for us Scrum for TFS fans, who have been using the RC version for a few months now.

See the Process Guidance to see what features this template provides. It is quite different from what MSF Agile 5, which is also based on Scrum, provides. Some concepts such as accep­tance test work items are shared.

The Scrum template also works with the new TFS 2010 features such as project collec­tions and events.

Welcome to my new blog. I've been out of the blogos­phere for a few years, and now I'm back, focusing on Agile method­ology, .NET tech­nology and how to combine both.

Background

I took my first steps in Agile devel­opment in early 2000, when I became a web devel­opment consultant at Microsoft. I became espe­cially inter­ested in the disci­plined, results-​​oriented, trackable yet not-​​super-​​formal way of devel­opment that was going on in Redmond at the time. At the company, my role was mostly archi­tecting web appli­ca­tions for customers and advising them how to use Microsoft's tools (such as ASP​.NET, Commerce Server and Content Management Server, which is now a part of SharePoint Server) opti­mally. Since leaving Microsoft in 2004, I continue to focus on archi­tecture and have taken on the addi­tional role of promoting agility and software crafts­manship.

If you love Scrum, MSF Agile, Extreme Programming (XP) and the .NET tools that promote the Agile work/​lifestyle, you'll feel right at home here!

Roy Dictus