Conchango has just make their first beta of their Scrum for Team System v3.0 process template available. This version targets the upcoming VSTS 2010 release so if you're looking at VSTS 2010 and Scrum is your friend then this should be something to check out. Key features of v3.0 includes (from their release post):

Some of the highlights of version 3:

• Sophisticated multi-team support
  • Individual team capacity and concurrent teams on different Sprint lengths
  • Concurrent teams with the same Sprint length but different start & finish dates
  • Add and remove teams on a per-sprint basis
• New QA Model
  • Acceptance Test driven
  • Microsoft Test & Lab Manager (Camano) compatible
• New & Extended Reports (limited selection available in Beta 1 – more to follow)
• Event Service Enhancements – provides much more “heavy lifting” and less manual steps
  • Transition – one field changing effects another
  • Aggregation – sums up related fields
  • XML rule set then determines next action
  • Composite transition criteria
• Enhanced Work Item Model and Queries
  • Improved support for Release planning
  • Leverage hierarchical work item relationships
  • Task based queries

More information on the beta program can be found here.

Later this summer (August 19 to be exact), my QWise colleague Magnus Juvas and I will do a "Sommarkollo" event at Microsoft in Stockholm. The topic is how we can effectively follow agile practices using VSTS as a tool and the agenda for this session is the following (in Swedish):

Vi går igenom och visar hur du som utvecklare kan jobba med agila arbetssätt som testdriven utveckling (TDD), continuous integration (CI) och Scrum på ett effektivt sätt med hjälp av Visual Studio Team System 2008. Fokus under den här halvdagen ligger på att demonstrera du praktiskt går tillväga för att komma igång med dessa arbetssätt.

Register to the event here.

A couple of weeks ago we held our first larger VSTS 2010 focused event. It was a challenge to present the new features in VSTS 2010... Even though we tried to be demo-intense it was hard to give the product justice in 40 minute sessions. There's just so much good stuff coming in 2010!! We'll definatly do more presentations on the coming features but here are the presentations from this event for a start:

The presentations from the event can be downloaded here.

The event was also recorded and is now available on Channel9:

• Introduktion till VSTS 2010, Del 1 – Arkitekturverktygen
• Introduktion till VSTS 2010, Del 2 – Utvecklare
• Introduktion till VSTS 2010, Del 3 - Team Foundation Server
• Introduktion till VSTS 2010, Del 4 - Test

We've also got a couple of workshops on VSTS 2010 coming up, for more information about take a look at our offerings here.