Shai Raiten's Blog : TFS Utilities, Scrum, TFS 2010

TFS 2010 - Urban Turtle for a Better Scrum

shair — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:50:40 GMT

TFS 2010 - Urban Turtle for a Better Scrum

If you doing Scrum in TFS 2010 this is an Add-on you can’t ignore!!! Urban Turtle is built by Pyxis Technologies and provides an awesome Scrum experience for TFS.

Urban Turtle will assist you with your Scrum process with a beautiful Interface and easy functionality though TFS 2010 Web Access.

Sounds Good? give it a try http://urbanturtle.com – You can download it for 30 days

Ream More from Brian Harry

Planning Board

Prioritize your backlog using drag-and-drop interface
Change to priority of a user story and the task will automatically follow
Easy filtering let's you focus on what you are doing
Plan your work with a simple drag-and-drop
Effortlessly add tasks to a user story

Task Board

Task board to view completed, ongoing and remaining work at a glance
Select or close a task in a second using drag-and-drop
Increase the efficiency of your Daily Scrum by providing transparency to your team
Sprint Burndown with live data to make sure you deliver what you are committed to
Makes impediment visible to easily eliminate it

ALM Summit Here We Come

shair — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:25:28 GMT

ALM Summit Here We Come

Application Lifecycle Management for the Microsoft platform will take place as November 16-18, 2010 - Microsoft Redmond.

If you are an ALM practitioner, lead, or manager who is passionate about mastering your craft, this is an event you don’t want to miss, and Sela Collage as ALM leader in Israel will be there as a gold sponsor.

Sela is going to announce of two tools for TFS and Visual Studio 2010:

Scrat – Quality Center 2 TFS 2010 Migration Tool – Home Page
Wimbi – More details after the summit

Here is the agenda:

Day 1: Agile Acceleration Day

Scrum: The Third Decade - Ken Schwaber
ALM Adoption and Futures - Dave West
Heterogeneous ALM Environments - Jamie Cool
IT for the Future - Moving into the Cloud - Tony Scott
Achieving true 'ALM' through analytics - Stuart McGill
Using Failure to Pave the Path for Success - John Szurek
Scenario-Focused Engineering - Austina De Bonte
Agile transformation during acquisition - Chris Kinsman
Agile transformation of a Microsoft product team - Cameron Skinner

Day 2: Collaborative Development

From Individual to Team to Organization - Brian Harry
Making Continuous Delivery a Reality from Product Backlog to Virtual Lab - Amit Chopra
Successful software project management styles - Stephanie Cuthbertson
Increasing Revenue Opportunities with Automated Development Tools - Karel Deman
Extending the ALM Platform - Mario Cardinal
Connecting ALM to Developer Workflow: the Task-Focused Interface - David Green (Tasktop)
Synchronizing and migrating ALM environments - Grant Holliday
The Future of Collaborative Development - Mary Czerwinski

Day 3: Engaging the Whole Team

The Agile Consensus - Sam Guckenheimer
Introducing Agility into the Enterprise at Nordstrom - JB Brown
Testing Tools in an Agile World - Vinod Malhotra
Transcending Dogma: How are they different, really? - Eric Willeke
Shared Values - The Why of ALM - Jim Newkirk
Exploratory Testing - Jon Bach
Professional Scrum Developer Practices - Richard Hundehausen
Quality is the Soul of Agile - Peter Provost

ALM Summit Home Page

Brian Harry will also be at the Summit as a presenter. (Brian on the Summit)

I hope to see you there!

Scrum For Team System Version 3.0 - Beta 2 Released

shair — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:41:56 GMT

Scrum For Team System Version 3.0 - Beta 2 Released

Team System 2010 comes with many new improvements, one of the biggest improvements is Hierarchical Work items.

In Team System 2008 we had only one relation between work items – Network topologies:
Any two items can be connected and the link has the same name at both ends.

In Team System 2010 we got more than just one topology of connection (my next post will be about all new topologies in 2010), so when using Team System 2010 we can use those new abilities to improve project management and better tracking on work items.

What the connection to Scrum Template? A lot!

The new Scrum template uses all new links to improve our project tractability and management, for example:

More about Scrum Template will be here later on…

Download Scrum For Team System 3.0 Beta 2

Scrum 3.0 Installation Guide
In this post I’ll discuss the TFS 2010 project collection structure and reveal the Scrum for Team System version 3 deployment utility.

Scrum Masters Workbench
This post will give you a quick overview of the new Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) project setup utility entitled:Scrum Masters Workbench (SMW) and how it is used with the forthcoming Scrum for Team System version 3 (SfTS)process template.

Scrum in the Enterprise and Process Customization with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
PDC Video