In my role as an ALM Consultant/Trainer, I regularly go onto new client sites to assist them in their adoption of Microsoft Team Foundation Server. I also help them choose a suitable process template and often do the customisation of the template to better fit their unique needs.

I am still surprised by the number of sites that don’t even know of Microsoft’s Scrum process template. While it is not a silver bullet and may not suit every organisations needs, it does provide a great option for teams looking to adopt Scrum practises.

Rich Hundhausen, author of the Scrum Developer Training course, has recorded two videos on Channel 9 to show people what this process template is all about.

• Managing Projects using Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 – Part 1 (53m 28s)
• Managing Projects using Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 – Part 2 (60m 36s)

I strongly suggest if your looking at choosing a process template for your team, you should lock yourself away in a meeting room for a couple of hours and check these videos out.