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It’s always been possible to descope work in the Scrum for Team System template. But the method employed in Version 2.2 whilst functional, was quite fiddly, overly manual and not very “Scrummy”. When building 3.0 we took the opportunity to revamp the way in which it worked and better utilise the power of the Event Service (something you can see ...

In Scrum for Team System 2.x Product Backlog Items (PBI’s) lived a simple life. They had an iteration path, an area path and were linked to Sprint Backlog Items (SBI’s). Confusingly, the more common terminology for SBI’s amongst non TFS users is Sprint Backlog Tasks – or SBT’s – which is why we’ve adopted this terminology for our Version 3.0 ...

There has been some small amount of confusion around the Scrum for Team System version numbers, especially with the popularity of the 2010 TFS Beta.   This short post should help clarify things.   Version Latest Release TFS version Next version Expected 1.x 1.2 ...

To support the release of Beta 1 of Scrum for Team System 3.0 for 2010, this is the first in a series of blog posts that will help you prepare for the release of the template and better plan your adoption strategy. Scrum for Team System 3.0 (for TFS 2010) brings with it many changes, many of which work together to produce what I believe is our ...

Just thought I would let you know what the Conchango Recruitment Team have been up to and what we are currently working on. Since January we have made 60 offers across our 3 teams (Technical Consulting, Business Consulting and Interactive Media)!  Yes we have been busy.  We do ALL our permanent recruitment directly, so no ...

Since I joined last July we have been heavily (and very sucessfully without agencies) directly recruiting for Business, Technical and Interactive Media Consultants.  To keep up with our internal expansion and continuous client wins we are now also increasing the size of our internal teams. We are looking for:an Agile ...

Happy New Year!!! It is a proven fact that one of the top resolutions that people make each January is to find a new job with exciting projects, first class training, career progression, a better financial package and a more fun work environment. Luckily for those of you who made that resolution, and are actually going to stick to ...

Since I am the Recruitment Manager here at Conchango I thought it was about time I talked about recruitment, as they suggest in the laws of blogging you should always blog about something relevant to you. In the last 3 months we have made 21 offers across our Business Consulting, Technical Consulting and Interactive Media teams.  So as you ...