Tfs team launches beta of Scrum template for Team Foundation Server

The Team Foundation Server team has just released the first beta of an all-​​new Scrum template for TFS 2010. This template competes with MSF Agile 5 up to some point, but more specif­i­cally it competes with EMC2's Scrum for Team System v3.

My first impression is that the new Scrum template is indeed a much better match for Scrum than MSF Agile 5, which was also targeted towards Scrum teams. It seems a simpler imple­men­tation than EMC2's (formerly Conchango's) template. Both are free.

Right now I am using EMC2's template on a project, and my client is about to roll out TFS 2010 on a larger scale, so for me the timing is just right. The next few weeks, we'll have a look at the new template and decide what to use for the next batch of projects.

It will be inter­esting to see whether Scrum teams every­where will adopt the more powerful Scrum for Team System v3 or will prefer the simpler, but less powerful, "standard" Microsoft imple­men­tation. Time will tell. I'd be most inter­ested to hear from you what you prefer, and why.