This week, Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio Scrum 1.0, an extension for Visual Studio which works with the Team Foundation Server 2010 application lifecycle management (ALM) server.
“So, why a new template? Scrum has become one of the dominant project management methodologies in recent years and is quickly becoming a default choice for new teams as well as teams looking to improve their existing processes,” writes Microsoft’s S. Somasegar in a blog post. “While the MSF Agile template can be used effectively by Scrum teams, we found that there was strong demand for a prescriptive Scrum template, a template that follows the Scrum methodology from top to bottom that uses Scrum terminology throughout.”
