Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta

re: Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta

Aaron Bjork — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:04:23 GMT

@R - I think it is... but I might be biased. We built the template for this exact scenario. We wanted people who are new to Scrum to be comfortable using this template.

re: Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:30:07 GMT

A question for all the experienced SCRUM users;

Is this a good template for someone starting new with scrum and TFS?

re: Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta

James — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:13:22 GMT

Excited to give this a shot with my team. Thanks for uploading!

re: Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta

Aaron Bjork — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:05:36 GMT

Frank - the Description field is a plain text field that does not support rich text formatting. DescriptionHTML is a nfew field we added in this template to support rich text formatting. You're absolutely right that today HTML fields cannot be edited in Excel... because of that, they appear as read-only. We chose to go ahead with the DescriptionHTML field despite this limitation as the ability to record text in a rich manner is something our customers have long asked us for. I understand the Excel pain and realize that this prevents bulk editing of the Description field in Excel. :( We had to choose one, and rich formatting won out.

re: Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta

Frank Boyne — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:00:41 GMT

Could you discuss the differences between the "Description" and "Description HTML" columns in Process Backlog Items please? The two columns seem to be capable of holding different values. It appears that only the Description column can be bulk-modified via Excel since the Description HTML column is read-only. Yet the Description HTML value is the one that appears in the Description tab of an individual PBI?

Or, am I being entirely clueless (again)?

re: Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta

Aaron Bjork — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:31:03 GMT

Greg - yes, this template will eventually be "in the box". Obviously our plans for vNext are not copmletely nailed down, but I anticpate having an Agile and Scrum template moving forward along with our CMMI template. This is not just a "cool additional template".

re: Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta

Aaron Bjork — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:29:48 GMT

Leo - the work items have a state named "Removed" that the queries filter out. So, if you need to delete a task/PBI/etc you can move it to the "Removed" state. In the Beta the state transitions were too restrictive so we're relaxing them now for the RTW release so that it's easier to put work items into that state. We didn't anticipate needing to delete a Sprint... our thought was that it should remain to track history even if aborted/failed/etc. Thoughts?

re: Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta

leo — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:06:54 GMT

It may be a basic question but, how should we deal with the situation that a work item must be deleted, (sprint, task, backlog) ?

Good work on this template, very straight forward, exactly what I was looking for.

re: Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta

Greg Duncan — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:26:41 GMT

It's a little unclear (or maybe I missed it) but with this project template be "included in the TFS box"? I.e. a standard part of TFS (say included in a future SP or in included in TFS vNext, etc?). Can this template be considered to truly be the third "official" TFS Project Template from Microsoft? Or is this just a cool "additional" template that will never likely be in the TFS box?

My concern is that I've seen other Scrum TFS Project Templates from MS come and go and before investing time in this one, I'd like to be sure it's "real." That it will have the same level of support and lifetime of the CMMI And Agile TFS templates...

Thanks...

re: Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta

Aaron Bjork — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:34:59 GMT

Houguan, when the released template is delivered we will provide a detailed list of the changes between the Beta and the final version so teams can apply the changes to any in-flight projects. At this point, the changes are fairly minimal.

Thanks.

Aaron