Targeting both new and existing Urban Turtle 2010 customers1, our team is delighted to announce a new Urban Turtle benefit to help customers realize more value (today) and simultaneously support their transition (eventual) to TFS 2012.
Starting immediately, customers with a valid TFS 2010 maintenance and support contract will be granted a FREE Urban Turtle TFS 2012 subscription2 for the duration of their agreement. For example, a customer with 6 months remaining on their M&S contract will be eligible for an equivalent Urban Turtle 2012 subscription for the duration of their contract. The UT 2012 subscription will expire on the same day as the TFS 2010 M&S agreement. New Urban Turtle customers will have the same privilege—only for 12 months (new purchases include 1 year maintenance and support).
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Urban Turtle Outruns TFS 2012—To the Bank!
With the introduction of Team Foundation Server 2012 and its more recent general release, Microsoft’s latest version is delivering several new enhancements. Interestingly, some of these new features, specifically around project management, not only resemble Urban Turtle but also, at a glance, could easily be misunderstood to deliver the same or similar value. The purpose of this blog, and a series of posts to follow, is to highlight Urban Turtle’s differentiators and unique value proposition.
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Urban Turtle 2012 Extends TFS & Introduces Fast Track
Building on the success of our market leading agile planning and task board, Urban Turtle 2012 extends TFS to facilitate backlog estimation and management of sudden, but critical activities that appear during a sprint (think escalated support request). Let’s take a closer look…
Estimation Board – Speed up and Simplify Agile Estimating
Introduced in an earlier post, the estimation board supports agile estimation by illustrating each story’s size relative to others. Urban Turtle’s estimation board allows product owners and developers to rapidly size backlogs and if necessary, recalibrate sizing. The team can see stories that need to be estimated, visualize relative size, and quickly identify large stories that need to be split. Using the Urban Turtle estimation board not only saves your team time, it also improves estimates and because it’s built on TFS, eliminates data entry (yeah!).
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Extra! Extra! Special Offer for Existing Customers (Without Maintenance and Support)
Urban Turtle boasts over 700 customers. While most have maintained a valid maintenance and support contract throughout their product use, a small portion has elected not to renew (hard to believe!). If you are an existing customer without a M&S agreement—this special offer is for you!
Immediately Download Urban Turtle 2010 Updates and Get a FREE Urban Turtle 2012 Subscription!
Chances are, if you don’t have a valid M&S support contract, you haven’t updated Urban Turtle for several months (OMG – years!). The result is that you are running outdated software (i.e., not our latest and greatest!). Normally customers under these circumstances, specifically those that want to upgrade their software or leverage our support, are required to purchase Urban Turtle again. Yes, a second time. Twice.
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Urban Turtle new pricing
With the announcement of Urban Turtle 2012 we introduce a new pricing model in order to keep us competitive in the market.
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Urban Turtle 2012 – More Details!
With the release of TFS 2012, opportunities are numerous for customers and Urban Turtle alike. We initially announced Urban Turtle for TFS 2012 in September. At that time we had a soft launch to coincide with Microsoft’s Visual Studio launch. Since then, we perfected a few things and have more details to share with you now. We trust you will like them!
Top Features
Smarter Planning & Task Boards
A smart way to prioritize your backlog, plan your work and deliver software. A more colorful TFS. Read more »
Progress Details
Confirm team commitment and easily follow progress. Read more »
Fast Track
Manage interruptions and maintain the integrity of your Sprint. Read more »
Estimation Board
Simplify the way you estimate stories in your backlog. Have fun estimating on your iPad. Read more »
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Urban Turtle is proud to announce a partnership with TFS Server Hosting.
TFS Server Hosting is now offering Urban Turtle to all their clients for free. We are
proud to add another great partner to our list. Hosting solutions can help you be
ready to code really fast and focus on delivering value to your business immediately.
Have a look at their offer at www.tfsserver.com.
Benefits of using Urban Turtle in the cloud
Start working now
Be up and running in less than 5 minutes.
Deliver software
Focus on delivering software. Forget about maintenance, backup, and security hassles.
Control costs
Spread your investment over time and simplify your cost management.
Another great adventure for the Turtle started today!
Urban Turtle proud to be at DevTeach
This week, Urban Turtle was at the DevTeach conference in Montreal.
We’ve met a lot of interesting people and TFS users. One thing to note is that many people are just starting to use the Work Item Tracking feature of TFS and they were very interested in trying out Urban Turtle. They were especially happy to know that they didn’t have to make a full switch from the tools they already know and use, such as Excel, since Urban Turtle stores everything in TFS. Some people even told us that Urban Turtle was the big piece of the puzzle missing from the default TFS offering. We like to agree!
Long ride for the Turtle to the ALM Summit
Team Urban Turtle has finally arrived in Redmond to present our agile project management tool after a long trip yesterday. It all started with a six-hour flight from Montreal to Vancouver, a two-hour car trip, including a stop at the US customs waiting for Mathieu to fill in the VISA stuff. Apparently, when you are French and try to enter the US from here, you need to be patient and have 6 bucks in your pocket, in USD of course.
We finally arrived at the hotel at 1 AM, ready to go sleep!
This morning we took our boat, a Lincoln Town Car, to come to the Summit in building 33, with our friend ET.
People come to see us to congratulate us about our 7th release in 7 months. Being able to do this in the product business is pretty tough, and we are happy that the community recognized that !
Ken Schwaber opened the summit with a talk about ALM and Scrum not being sufficient for Agility.
Agility Requires:
1. An organizational culture change. François gave a great presentation about this at the Agile Tour.
2. Good engineering practices.
3. Continuous Improvement.
4. Reactivity, persistence, hard work and headaches, vision and insights.
Next talk: The state of ALM: An industry view, by David West.
Targeting both new and existing Urban Turtle 2010 customers1, our team is delighted to announce a new Urban Turtle benefit to help customers realize more value (today) and simultaneously support their transition (eventual) to TFS 2012.