The fourth part of the series posts about scrum under TFS. This time we will give a complete overview of all the features of the Scrum templates. Read our previous parts here:
This article is also cross posted on the ordina blog.
We'll start by explaning the different criteria we looked at:
- Licensing: What are the licensing conditions? Is it free to use?
- Installation: Which format has the provided setup? Are there any installation guidelines?
- Web Interface: Is there a separate web interface available?
- Real Scrum: Does the template follows all the Scrum principles?
- Process Guidance: Is there any form of process guidance available?
- Workitems: Which workitems are available?
- Custom reports: Which custom reports are available?
- Custom queries: Which custom queries are available?
- Overall quality: How did we rate the overall quality of the template?
- Bugs found: Did we found any bugs while testing?
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Microsoft eScrum |
VSTS Scrum Process Template |
Conchango Scrum for Team System |
| Licensing |
Free |
Free |
Free |
| Installation |
MSI |
Zip |
MSI |
| Web Interface |
Y |
N |
N |
| Real Scrum |
N |
N |
Y |
| Process Guidance |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| Workitems |
Bug
eScrum Product Backlog
eScrum Product Details
eScrum Sprint Details
eScrum Sprint Retrospective
eScrum Sprint Task |
BackLogItem
Defect
Impediment
Review
User Story |
Product Backlog Item
Release
Sprint
Sprint backlog item
Sprint Retrospective Item |
| Custom reports |
Product Summary
Sprint Burndown
Sprint Cumulative Flow
Sprint Metrics
Sprint Retrospective
Sprint Totals |
Burn Down chart
Tests Failing without Active Defects
Tests Passing without Active Defects |
Bug Count
Bug History Chart
Bug Priority Chart
All Product Backlog Items
All Sprint Backlog Items
All Sprints
Delta Report
Impediment Report
Product Backlog Composition
Product Burndown Chart
Product Cumulative Flow
Retrospective Report
Sprint Burndown Chart
Sprint Cumulative Flow
Sprint Overview Chart
Sprint View
Version |
| Custom queries |
All eScrum Product Backlog Items
All eScrum Product Details
All eScrum Sprint Details
All eScrum Sprint Retrospectives
All eScrum Sprint Tasks
My eScrum Product Backlog Items
My eScrum Sprint Tasks |
Active Defects
All backlog Items
Impediments
My backlog items
My defects
My impediments
My reviews
Project checklist
Resolved defects
Untriaged defects |
All impediments
All product backlog items
All sprint backlog items
All sprint backlog tasks
All sprint retrospective items
All sprints
My impediments
My sprint backlog items
My sprint backlog tasks
My sprint retrospective items
Recycle bin |
| Overall Quality |
** |
* |
*** |
| Bugs found |
Y |
N |
N |
So this was the fourth part. In the next part, we'll do a final review and make some conclusions.
Your TFS Scrummasters
Bart Wullems and Sven Cipido