What’s new in the Visual Studio Scrum 2.1 Process Template?

If you’ve connected to the hosted Team Foundation Service lately, you’ve noticed a new version of the Scrum template is available …

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Being the curious type, I connected to the service with Visual Studio 2012, downloaded the new template, and compared it with the 2.0 process template using the Compare tool in Visual Studio …

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It seems that there are 7 files that have changed, and 1 new one in the 2.1 template …

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Other than the obvious changes to metadata (2.0 > 2.1, etc.), it appears the new version only has a few substantive changes …

  • A new custom build process template to support Continuous Deployment to Azure
  • In the default build template, the Sources, Binaries, and TestResults directory names have been shortened from Sources to src, Binaries to bin, TestResults to tst
  • Bug and PBI work item types can now be transitioned from Approved > New, Committed > New, Done > New, Done > Approved, and Approved > Done.