Ken Schwaber and Conchango have released SCRUM Process Guidance for VSTS. I am including his entire posting from the scrumdevelopment yahoo group. It is a very active group, and you can find some really insightful commentary there. Definitely consider subscribing. Ken said: I have worked closely over the last eighteen months with ConChango, a UK based consultancy, to prepare guidance for managing projects using Scrum. This work was prompted by our mutual concern over the quality and misdirection of Microsoft's initial contents, which badly represented Agile. I feared that, without adequate alternative, many Agile and Scrum "newbies" would think that the MS work actually had some resemblance to the real stuff. I was and still am delighted with Conchango's help in this initiative. They have not only invested strongly, but they have become potent Scrum advocates in the UK and throughout Europe. Even better, they did so without any direct belief in product sales or direct payback. Colin Bird, Howard vanRooijen, Ian Shimmings, and Steve Garnett all went way above and beyond their normal work to make this happen. As a result, the VSTS Scrum for Team Systems is now available, after an extensive Beta, as free downloads for use with VSTS, or as a standalone guidance system. I am delighted to recommend that everyone take a look at this work. See below for more details, Ken "Over the weekend we launched the microsite with the new process and multimedia guidance that we filmed when you were last over (I know I worked you hard - but I think the finished version was worth it). you can find it at: http://scrumforteamsystem.com/ProcessGuidance/ - we have also made the guidance available as a separate download, so that people can get access to the content even if they don't live in a Microsoft / Team System world – you can get access to the downloads from http://scrumforteamsystem.com/cs/forums/2/ShowPost.aspx - I thought it might be a useful resource for your Certification Courses or people who are interested in getting started. So far we've had 70 downloads in the first 12 hours and the first blog post I've found has been very flattering: "I've been testing their Scrum for Team System product for awhile now and now they've released it as freeware...The add-in is pretty slick and covers all the major aspects of Scrum and is a much better implementation (IMHO) over something like MSF for Agile (that comes OOTB with TFS)"
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