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Articles de dominic :
- April 30th – Urban Turtle 3.0 RTM is now available!
- June 4th – Urban Turtle 3.1 now available!
- July 8th – Urban Turtle 3.2 now available! – Support Visual Studio Scrum 1.0
- More convenient way to rank stories across multiple pages in the planning board.
- Quick links to access reports.
- Screen real estate optimization in the task board.
- Document how to easily activate and deactivate Urban Turtle (request from David Starr).
- Tooltip showing full text when truncated on the card.
- Validation and adjustments in the French version.
Create kick-ass software fast
One of the main orientations is to build Urban Turtle into TFS (as opposed to integrate with). All our design decisions are made to bring as much value-added as possible while creating a seamless experience for existing TFS users and grow with TFS as Microsoft adds new features.
If you are interested about the details of the three releases we have made since the Visual Studio 2010 launch in April, please read the following posts:
We believe this orientation is what allows us to have a product that installs on the server in less than two minutes and gets a team to use it right away. We are very interested in hearing your stories and get your feedback about how we can further improve the experience.
Help us make our Urban Turtle a Chameleon 
Also, our tight integration in the Web Access user interface makes the user feel at home and perceive TFS with new capabilities (as opposed to using an extra product). This is a big plus to have a smooth user adoption. We know that adopting scrum is already an interesting challenge; you do not need tools to get in your way but be a possible accelerator.
Again, give Urban Turtle a try and let us know how we succeeded in turning it into a Chameleon.
Next Step – Microsoft Scrum template support and filtering options
Once again the team has committed to a new release Monday morning.
This is the plan for the next trip !
In the first sprint, we will make sure that the Turtle can sprint with the new Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 template announced at TechEd on Monday. You can download the new template here. We are really excited that Microsoft has decided to jump in the scrum world!
In the second sprint, we will implement a natural way to filter areas and iterations using a tag concept. You will have the option to put a push pin on some areas and iterations to apply a filter based on those selected and work with a subset of the work items. This will simplify backlog visualization and make sure the team’s focus is on delivering awesome software sprint after sprint.
This will help you doing enterprise scrum and complex project management with the Turtle.
If you want to manage your projects like one big project as suggested by Martin Hinshelwood on his blog, this feature will let you do that with Urban Turtle. I think you will really like this new feature.
Send us your comments on the forums!
Dominic !
Next Release – Final Sprint with Finish Line on June 2nd
In Urban Turtle’s Next Destination we listed the features that the team intended to produce for the first sprint of the release scheduled for June 2nd. I am as very happy product owner because the team delivered everything that was intended for the sprint and we have more killer features in the next and final sprint of this release.
The main feature is the integration of areas in the planning board. We were not pleased with the way we had develop this feature in our TFS 2008 version. We think we have a better design that will please all users. We are eager to release it on June 2nd to have your feedback.
As always, feedback is greatly appreciated as comments here or on the forum.
Urban Turtle: next destination
As you know, Urban Turtle 3.0 was released last week. However the team does not stop working here. We gathered yesterday to plan the next two week sprint.
The team’s commitment for the next sprint is:
There will be another two-week sprint leading to the next release. What we have in mind so far for this sprint is a first step in implementing convenient ways to organize your backlog using areas / tags.
Any feedback or suggestions on the direction the turtle should be sprinting will be greatly appreciated. Do not hesitate to comment here or post the comments on the forum.