We are pleased to announce the availability of Scrum for Team System V3 Beta 1 through a limited beta programme. Version 3 is designed expressly for TFS 2010, taking advantage of the new capabilities of Microsoft’s ALM platform.
Please be aware that the current beta version of Scrum for Team System has only been tested against TFS 2010 Beta 1 and is not intended to be used on CTP versions of TFS.
Some of the highlights of version 3:
- Sophisticated multi-team support
- Individual team capacity and concurrent teams on different Sprint lengths
- Concurrent teams with the same Sprint length but different start & finish dates
- Add and remove teams on a per-sprint basis
- New QA Model
- Acceptance Test driven
- Microsoft Test & Lab Manager (Camano) 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
- Transition – one field changing effects another
- Aggregation – sums up related fields
- XML rule set then determines next action
- Composite transition criteria
- Enhanced Work Item Model and Queries
- Improved support for Release planning
- Leverage hierarchical work item relationships
- Task based queries
If you are interested in participating in the program then please send an e-mail requesting to join the Scrum for Team System V3.0 Beta 1 program (Subject: Beta) to ScrumforTeamSystem@emc.com
See related blog from Simon Bennett: http://blogs.conchango.com/simonbennett/archive/2009/07/28/3-0-from-30-000-feet.aspx