TFS/Scrum Resource Links

In order to decrease the size and length of my TFS/Scrum presentations I am removing the slides that list links to online resources. I am posting those links here and simply referring to them from a slide in the presentations now.



Scrum/Agile Links

• Scrum for Team System - One of the best TFS Project Templates for Scrum around. Created by Conchango in association with Ken Schwabber.


• Control Chaos - A good website for all things Scrum. Lots of whitepapers, books, and other resources.


• Scrum Alliance - Another good website for Scrum with a more community feel.


• Agile Management Blog - Aimed more at project manager types (or Scrum Masters), but has some good practical blog entries from David Anderson. This link is to his post about TFS and Agile processes.


• eScrum - Another TFS Project Template for Scrum.

Scrum/Agile Books

• "Integrating Agile Development in the Real World" by Peter Schuh - Good introduction to several agile methodologies (including Scrum).


• "Agile Project Management with Scrum" by Ken Schwabber - The de facto book on Scrum by one of its creators.


• "The Enterprise and Scrum" by Ken Schwabber - The companion for the book above that takes the Scrum ideas and applies the to large, enterprise level projects.


• "User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development" by Mike Cohn - Good introduction to using User Stories to gather and document requirements.

Team Foundation Server Resources/Tools

• MSDN TFS Site - The official Microsoft site for Team Foundation Server.


• TFS 2005 Power Tools - Tools for editing work item and process templates, check in policies, extended command line tools, build tasks. etc.


• TFS 2008 Power Tools - Mostly the same tools for 2005 ported to 2008.


• CodePlex - Tons of community created tools and guides for TFS including a migration tool, Subversion source control bridge, and more.


• Personify Design - Creators of TeamLook which adds TFS extensions into Outlook and TeamSpec which is similar to Rational's RequisitePro tool for maintaining links from Word documents to work items in TFS.


• TFS API MSDN Sample - Great sample project showing how to interact with the TFS API.

Team Foundation Server Blogs

• Buck Hodges - Lots of good information on TFS, third party tools, etc.


• Brian Harry - Some overlap with Buck Hodges' blog, but he also includes lots of statistics on their own implementation of TFS internally.


• Naren Datha - Several blog posts on TFS customization.

Team Foundation Server Books

• "Professional Team Foundation Server" from WROX - Good starter book that covers a wide range of topics.


• "Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server" by Microsoft - General guide for implementing. Lots of good practical examples. You can download it for free from CodePlex.