The ALM MVPs were busy today as they released two different tools designed to help agile teams work better.
The first tool is a visual studio gallery extension called Sprint Burndown+. This extension enables development teams to view all their #sprints on a single timeline.
Sprint Burndown plus not only shows all the team sprint Burndown charts plotted on one time line, but it offers you the ability to format this data.
Features:
- View all sprints on a single timeline
- Sawtooth burndown chart (Read more)
- Sprint burndown+ beta.
- Options to set default export folder under Tools –> Options
- Data Formating
Watch this 5 minute introductory video –http://youtu.be/XA_GiTKg34o | read more about it here
According to the authors, Tarun Arora and Utkarsh Shigihalli: “This tool should work with “any process template with which you can see the burn down chart on Microsoft Web Access will be compatible with our extension.”
Great job guys!
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The second tool is a TFS Agile Poker application released to the Windows 8 Store by Mike Douglas. The TFS Agile Poker is a cross platform tool for distributed and co-located teams to point your Team Foundation Server backlog. TFS Agile Poker can be used with Team Foundation Service with an on-premises Team Foundation Server 2010 or 2012 installation using the TFS OData Services. I was able to play with it at the last MVP Summit and it had some really great features.
Features
- Estimate effort for product backlogs
- Communicates with TF Service and on-premises TFS Server
- Supports multiple connections
- Works with Agile and Scrum templates
- Invite other users by email
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/tfs-agile-poker/5afbae32-750b-47c5-8e36-36d9ca7965a3
Thanks Mike for releasing this terrific tool!
