I'm currently giving a try to the new Visual Studio Scrum template and I'm looking for a the best approach and tools to enhanced product backlog management and tracking work progression. Any suggestions?
Steven
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We use Rally ( http://www.rallydev.com) at our company and we're happy with it.
Prior to that we used VersionOne ( http://www.versionone.com) and it was decent.
Our company spent a good amount of time investigating and I find Rally does the job real well. Rally is hosted, which has actually turned out to be a good thing. VersionOne isn't that i'm aware of; we hosted it locally. Both provide free trials and they're willing to engage in migration efforts.
ubuntuguy
2010-07-22 21:42:46
Rally has a very steep learning curve, and its interface is very non-intuitive. It also makes it very difficult for developers to update their progress. This is based on my experience with it.
glowcoder
2010-07-27 16:57:44
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The MFS template included with TFS has been adequate for our needs. We have a small group of 8 developers working on multiple projects.
Joel
2010-07-22 21:44:57
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SVN. I'm actually half serious, TFS has been a total nightmare in terms of branching/merging/ any kind of change in work patterns - to anyone who disagrees, I pose one question: give me a concise definition of the "workspace" concept that is consistent with every aspect of your interaction with it.
Tom Carver
2010-07-22 21:54:44
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Urban Turtle (http://urbanturtle.com) is the first tool to specifically support the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum process template (http://urbanturtle.com/blog/2010/07/08/urban-turtle-3-2-now-available/).
François
2010-07-23 11:24:24
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If you are using tfs you should seriously consider this:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/aaronbjork/archive/2010/05/25/announcing-team-foundation-server-scrum-v1-0-beta.aspx
This has been made in collaboration with Ken Schwaber the inventor of the Scrum. I've used actively rallydev & versionone in the past but they are too heavy, and therefore... Less agile.
Pierre 303
2010-07-24 10:42:09