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So, there’s been a bit of storm blowing through the part of the InterWeb that I inhabit recently – see http://blog.benday.com/archive/2009/07/27/23233.aspx for the low-down. I’ve seen these types of discussions countless times, both online and in the real world – the thing that wears me down the most is the seemingly constant assertion that ...

Now that Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1 are available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads, we’d like to announce our broad plans for Scrum for Team System. The next release of Scrum for Team System will be v3.0 and like the prior releases our aim is to ship as soon as possible after release of Team ...

As part of work recently to improve how we test the Scrum for Team System template and tools across different platforms, we have discovered there are a few additional manual steps to take when you are installing the template in a distributed environment (i.e. you are using a remote WSS 3 or MOSS 2007 server to host your Team Project Portals). ...

It has been a busy time here at Conchango as we've been making plenty of changes to get Scrum for Team System working on Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server and also incorporating changes driven by community feedback and usage of the plugin on our own development projects. We should be ready to release after we ...

This one comes up frequently in our development teams, especially those who have transitioned a project off VSS and into Team Foundation Server.  The question usually goes something like: "Someone has installed VS 2005 + Team Explorer on an existing Windows XP box.  They login using their domain credentials open VS 2005, they ...

After speaking to some people last week at TechEd US about how under-represented the UK is in the Team System and Team Foundation Server community as a whole, I am thinking about setting one up.  As a result I would like to invite anyone who will help me co-ordinate or present at a UK VSTS user group to get in contact using the contact ...

I won't call it a miracle as I've been using and developing for Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server for over 2 years now, but with the release of the MCTS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server exam recently, I figured I should go and do it before Orcas gets released later this year ...

As Howard blogged (seemingly whilst I was still deploying the thing last night!) - we've released an update to Scrum for Team System.  The reports are much faster in this version amongst some other changes.  The template itself has not changed. See http://scrumforteamsystem.com/ProcessGuidance/FAQ/WhatsNewFAQ.html for the ...