eScrum 1.0 released..

I have read many things about Scrum project management over here in Microsoft. Almost all projects here are managed using either completely scrum or combination of scrum and some other technique. And records have shown that its pretty effective system. Just reading somasegar's blog and found that Microsoft released external usage tool on MSDN, "eScrum 1.0".. This is a great move! I would expect more on this in near future.

Visual Studio Rocks!!

Many development teams inside Microsoft are now using the agile methodology for software development and had been looking for a way to track their daily progress.  Some of the product units in Developer Division are also using this methodology.

A team within Microsoft decided to build a web based tool on top of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server for just this purpose.  Seeing the excitement and adoption for this among internal teams, our services folks (Microsoft Consulting) wanted us to make this available broadly to our customers. As a result, eScrum 1.0 was released today on MSDN for external consumption.

This tool integrates with Excel and MSProject via TFS, allows interaction with TFS Team Explorer, and is a one-stop place for all Scrum artifacts such as product backlogs, sprint backlogs, task management, retrospectives, and reports. 

Namaste!

Taken from,
https://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/06/13/escrum-1-0.aspx

Stay tuned..