Microsoft eScrum: Scrum for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Microsoft has made available a VSTS tool for teams using Scrum: Download details: Microsoft eScrum Version 1.0

Scrum is, I've concluded, The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work for software project management. It's also over-hyped, as the first line of the Wikipedia entry shows.

I'd like to talk about eScrum in a future column for SD Times and would love to hear from people who've used it or evaluated it and decided against it. Contact me at lobrien@

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