Tag: Scrum

Which Scrum Team member should set PBI and Bug work item states?

Jun 8, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

This is a fairly common question, usually by teams new to Scrum. The Scrum Guide clearly identifies the roles and their responsibilities. Team Foundation Server does not. It only identifies security …

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Scrum Fundamentals Workshop in Boise

May 2, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thank you for attending the workshop yesterday. You can find the presentation link below. It was three hours of packed information (and a packed room). I believe we had around 90 people in the …

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Reporting Waste with TFS

Apr 11, 2012 • 3 min read • Simon Reindl

Tracking waste in TFS Overview Tracking waste and gathering the empirical data is one of the most effective ways of convincing people for the need to adapt. This needs an Estimated Effort field, as …

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Diving into the Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 Reports

Mar 12, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Being the geek I am, I wanted to take a detailed look at the reports in the new Scrum template. Rather than wait for guidance to be posted, or call up my friends at Microsoft (again), I thought I …

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What’s new and different in Visual Studio Scrum 2.0?

Mar 12, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Try this: Download the Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 – Preview 3 process template from the Team Foundation Server 11 Beta into one folder and then do the same with the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 version of …

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Scrum Power of 3 imbalance – Scrum Master as Product Owner

Feb 21, 2012 • 4 min read • Simon Reindl

The question was recently posed to me – What conflicts occur if the Scrum Master is also the Product Owner? This can be seen as a workaround for not getting a dedicated Product Owner, which is …

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Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group: VS11 and Scrum

Oct 20, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was in town this week delivering a Professional Scrum Developer Train-The-Trainer (TTT) event. Last night I gave a presentation to a full room at the Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group on using …

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A Scrum comparison of the MSF/Agile and Visual Studio Scrum templates

Aug 3, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

While it’s possible for a Scrum team to use the MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 process template to implement Scrum, it makes more sense to use the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template, …

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Professional Scrum Developer Questions asked at TechEd 2011

May 18, 2011 • 4 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Q. We are implementing Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) as part of our ISO certification. How does Scrum fit into the ISO world? We are also adopting 3M’s (our parent company) Lean Six Sigma …

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