Some Turtle’s news! We have been at different events in the past few weeks. But, we also worked on a new version of the Turtle to give you the best...

In the past year, there has been many changes with the team members of Urban Turtle. It seems that the situation is finally stable. Since, we are working together to...

You were waiting for it, here it is: The Stand-Up view! The feature of the hour has been released last week and we are so proud to finally show you...

Once again this year Urban Turtle took part to the Visual Studio Partners Program summit at Microsoft campus in Redmond (just near Seattle) and, once again, it was such an...

Last week, Microsoft released TFS 2015 Update 3. Guess what? Urban Turtle is ready! Here’s the new version Urban Turtle 5.5 compatible with TFS 2015 Update 3. Our team worked...

As a developer, have you ever been to a stand-up meeting and just wish that your team could actually work together to accomplish whatever they have to do? The daily...

During Microsoft’s Build 2016, the release of TFS 2015 Update 2 was announced. A few days later of working under the hood of the Turtle, we are proud to announce...

The Product Management Board, commonly called the Feature Board, will let you manage and visualize your features in your organization workflow. At a higher level, this board will help you...

We know what you are thinking … ABOUT TIME! So, here it is! We are so happy to present you the actual team members of Urban Turtle. CAUTION: We are...

The Urban Turtle team always works on the product’s improvement, but we also develop new offers to help you bring Urban Turtle to your organization and enjoy a better Agile...

It all started with a question “Why are we so bad at creating software?”. Behind this question was disappointment, failure even! The industry in the early 2000s made no sense....

For Urban Turtle, new year means new features to come. To pique your interest we want to share some of the upcoming features we have in mind for 2016. Winter...

Good collaboration brings good releases Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 is now available and Urban Turtle is already compatible with it. We pride ourselves on our collaboration with...

NEW RELEASE, NEW STUFF We are proud to announce that Urban Turtle 5.1 is out! This new version now supports Team Foundation Server 2012 (Update 2 to 4), 2013 (Update...

This year again, Urban Turtle went to Seattle for the annual Microsoft Visual Studio Partner Program (VSIP) summit near Seattle. More specifically, we were on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond....

Today we’re very happy to release a new version of Urban Turtle for Team Foundation Server 2012/2013. Please welcome Urban Turtle Version 4.25. This release include a lot of new...

On August 6th, Brian Harry announced trough is blog that the new version of Team Foundation Server (TFS 2015) was available for download! That new version of the ALM platform...

Team Foundation Server 2015 is coming and Urban Turtle is ready! A couple of months ago, Microsoft announced the upcoming Visual Studio 2015 release. This new version of Visual Studio...

Spring brings hot weather and good time in Montreal. It's also a hot period for Urban Turtle! We are working on a lot of cool elements and improvements for you....

Urban Turtle’s Product Management Feature will help Product Owners organize their business requirements into a single TFS project whether you want to manage a small, large or multiple team projects...

My turtle is slow? Well if you have a large backlog maybe… With this release, combined with the last one, we have improved many aspects of the performance in the...

Dear Urban Turtle lovers, or users, or both, or just turtle curious; We are receiving a lot of questions on how to use Urban Turtle. That’s why we decided to...

HAPPY NEW YEAR ! The holiday season is over and Urban Turtle team want to wish you a happy new year. We hope that you had a good time with...

Last week the Urban Turtle team was in Quebec City attending Agile Tour Quebec and we have to admit that we had a very good time. First off, we want...

(English version bellow) L’équipe d’Urban Turtle est fière de vous annoncer qu’elle envahira la ville de Québec dans le cadre de l’Agile Tour Québec qui se tiendra le 5 novembre prochain...

You want to follow Microsoft cadence and update your TFS Server to latest version? You can now do so with Urban Turtle 4.18. This release include minor update to support TFS...

Last week, Microsoft hosted its annual VSIP summit at their Campus in Redmond and guess what, Urban Turtle was there! After one week near Seattle, lets have a look at...

The Urban Turtle team really cares about its clients and when we say care, we mean REALLY care! So, we hope that you all enjoy your summer. To help you...

With the much anticipated arrival of summer (at least for us living in Montreal) the Urban Turtle team is happy to bring a few updates to our dear customers. A...

The Urban Turtle team worked really hard to have you guys experience the full potential of TFS 2013. If you already have Urban Turtle installed on your TFS, here is...

Urban Turtle has always made it easy to add items to your backlog. We introduced the Quick Add functionality back in Urban Turtle 2010 and it's proven to be quite...

Fresh off an outstanding olympic performance from our Canadian hockey teams, both female and male, we bring you the latest update to the gold standard in Agile project management tools...

Hello community! We're currently thinking about a way of managing work items that have not yet been prioritized in your product backlog. We know that, sometimes, it's a bit difficult...

Urban Turtle is proving to be a great addition to TFS for managing our backlog. Above everything the team at Pyxis has been extremely responsive in integrating UT into our...

The Urban Turtle team is proud to make available the first release of the year: Urban Turtle 4.14. With some under-the-hood tweaks and a few nice features, this is a...

This has been an exciting year for us here at Urban Turtle. The product has grown leaps and bounds since the beginning of the year. We are also now shipping...

It's been a productive month of November for us here at Urban Turtle. Our efforts were twofold. First, we really improved the overall experience for trial users of our online...

Montréal, Canada, November 13, 2013 – Urban Turtle is proud to sim-ship along with Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013. With this release, Urban Turtle strengthens its position with providing Agile...

Scrum is cool. Scrum gives us enough rules to implement something that is quite easy to understand to change the process of complex products development, to optimize predictability, and to...

It's that time of the month again where we gladly lift the curtain on what we've been working on these past few weeks! Today, we are proud to introduce a...

Forget boring, stuffy meetings: this is your team’s daily synchronization tool. Adam Bindslev Before I tell you what the meeting is about, let me begin by telling you that, contrary...

Urban Turtle has always been about bringing innovation to the TFS platform and breaking new grounds. But, at the same time, we strive to provide users with simple solutions to...

Are your Scrum Masters evolving in the practice of their Agile activities? Are they stagnant or worse, regressing!? To answer these questions, a colleague and I came up with the...

If there's one thing we've learned these past few years, it's that our customers love Urban Turtle. It can get so popular within an organisation that more people than originally...

Today we're releasing the first Preview version of Urban Turtle 2013 with support for the recent release of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview. For the moment, both...

When an organization starts using Scrum, it runs into tough questions. One question that is particularly challenging is: Is the Scrum Master the Agile Project Manager? What if you consider...

Image by Dawn (Willis) Manser Project kick-offs have been used for years as a way to launch a new project. It is assumed that bringing people together in a room...

This month, just about everyone on the team was on vacation at any time. Guillaume, our UI/UX expert who recently had his first child, was out of the country for...

Our latest sprint goal was to give you guys the ability to set great sprint goals... Needless to say, we nailed it! (Like always... :) ) Urban Turtle allows you...

Since the beginning of the year, we have been on a steady monthly release schedule and this month is no different. The Urban Turtle team is quite proud of introducing...

The Urban Turtle team lives by the release early, release often mantra. This, along with listening to customer feedback in-between releases, allows us to effectively adapt our product to meet...

With Team Foundation Server 2012, Microsoft finally realized what we all already knew, iterations should have dates! In previous releases, process templates would define special work item types to work...

On April 10th, Pyxis /studio assisted to the unveiling of the finalists at the OCTAS 2013, a contest organized by Réseau ACTION TI. Dominic Danis, Product Director of Urban Turtle,...

The irony of Team Foundation Server not having any notion of teams per-say in previous releases has not been lost on us. Some of our 2010 customers know that we...

Execs, project managers, Scrum Masters and Product Owners, rejoyce! In the newest release of Urban Turtle for Team Foundation Server 2012, the team has finally implemented the missing third pillar...

Announcing the new Agile Dashboard for Team Foundation Server 2012! Following in the steps of our previous release, the team is proud to unleash onto the TFS Agile world a...

Scrum is a relatively simple framework to work with, and many teams are taking advantage of it. Agile practices bring a lot of transparency and visibility, but many organizations still...

Look what we have here. Isn't that Dominic and Louis using the first-ever prototype of the Urban Turtle Agile Dashboard for Team Foundation Server? Yep! It is! At the end...

The developer who hated Christmas - part 2 (read part 1) Urban takes Dave by the hand again. Dave is now in an office. Around him, a few dozen computer...

December 1st. “Not this time of the year again”, exhales Dave every year around the holidays. It’s the same thing every year: overtime, unrealistic deadlines, no time to have fun....

While the team is mourning the on-going absence of hockey (yes, we are canucks) we decided to release a new version of Urban Turtle for TFS 2010. Although we have...

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...

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...

We’ve heard our clients' prayer . . . Agile is not only about Scrum! You asked for Kanban—we listened. We're the first to integrate boards for Scrum teams in TFS,...

Urban Turtle is smart innovation. For years, we have been working hard to stay ahead and innovate in the Agile world. Here is our Agile timeline of Smart Innovation: 1999...

Urban Turtle 4 is changing the way you estimate your backlog... one touch at a time. This is the missing link between wall estimation sessions and your backlog in TFS....

Simon here, Scrum Master for the Turtle team. As you may already know, the Urban Turtle development team uses the same tool it is offering to TFS users…a tool to...

We told you it was on the backlog. We told you it was rising in priority. We told you we wanted to see it included in a future release. We...

A few customers have inquired about how Urban Turtle handles being set up in a load balancing scenario. I thought it would be interesting to describe the current state of...

Download for free Urban Turtle version 3.14 Once again, Team Urban Turtle is quite proud to announce the release of Urban Turtle 3.14. Featuring updated visuals and the ability to...

So your project has been going along for a while now and several iterations are completed. Your iteration panel is starting to look a little crowded. Maybe something like this:...

After breaking tradition and our monthly release cycle, Team Urban Turtle is proud to present to you version 3.13 featuring the most requested idea ever! New Features Our planning board...

Urban Turtle has been designed from the ground up to support custom process templates. Out of the box, we provide support for MSF Agile 5.0 (english and french), Visual Studio...

Download for free Urban Turtle version 3.12 Team Urban Turtle is proud to announce the release of Urban Turtle 3.12. During the last month, we've focused on further improving support...

Download for free Urban Turtle version 3.11 Over a year ago, we released Urban Turtle 3.0, the premier Scrum tool for Team Foundation Server 2010. To be honest, it was...

Download for free Urban Turtle version 3.10 Almost a whole year has gone by since the release of Team Foundation Server 2010 and our add-in for its Team Web Access...

Download for free Urban Turtle version 3.9 It is really cold up here in Montreal, but this Turtle is not the hibernating kind. Once again, relentlessly, the team has worked...

Download for free Urban Turtle version 3.8 Nine in nine! As our customers are well aware of, each and every month we release a new Turtle. For each of these...

Yesterday, we got a Christmas present from Brian Harry, the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server and a Microsoft Technical Fellow. He wrote a blog where he praises Urban...

Download for free Urban Turtle version 3.7 8 months, 8 releases The team is back at it again. Another month sees another release out in the wild. We're once again...

The Turtle in the Cloud has reached its destination which is the ALM Summit. Urban Turtle is a gold sponsor at this event which will be targeting TFS and Agile project management...

Download for free Urban Turtle version 3.6 A steady pace wins the race - Release 3.6 The name of our product has often been a source of discussion. We wanted...

Now that the product is gaining in popularity, we get more and more feedback and requests. Our challenge is to make sure the product backlog is prioritized optimally to deliver...

Download for free Urban Turtle version 3.5 The turtle ride continues, 6 releases in 6 months! Team Urban Turtle is once again proud to announce the release of a new...

Last Friday, October 1st, I was in London to participate in a workshop to learn how to write patterns. This workshop, directed by Linda Rising, was sponsored by the Agile...

Now that the vacations are over and that the 2010 Agile conference has come and gone, Team Urban Turtle is back to work, cooking up another promising release 3.4. With...

The Urban Turtle is at Agile 2010 with its fourth release in four months since the Visual Studio 2010 release in April. During the opening night, the turtle spent some...

There will be no rest for our team during the hottest months of the year. Today, we launch Urban Turtle 3.3. This new version includes an hour burndown chart along...

Team Urban Turtle is again proud to announce a new release: Urban Turtle 3.2. This new version features support for the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template from Microsoft,...

Note that the ‘Scrum Team’ refers to the Product Owner, the ScrumMaster and the Team. The Team consists of developers with all the skills to turn the Product Owner’s requirements...

In the past, we've made claims that Urban Turtle supports virtually any process template. Therefore it came as a surprise to some people when our team said that building support for the...

There has been a debate in the Scrum and Kanban communities about having iterations  (sprints) or not. I am worried that this blog post will generate flame wars and rants....

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...

We're proud to announce that Urban Turtle version 3.1 is now available for download! Team Urban Turtle has been hard at work since the release of Urban Turtle 3.0 and...

In Answering some common questions about Urban Turtle we answer some questions and present some of the orientations we took in designing Urban Turtle. One of the main orientation is...

Check out this blog from Microsoft's Aaron Bjork about Urban Turtle http://bit.ly/b1dh5c.

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...

Urban Turtle Release 3.0 Join us for a Webinar on May 12 You are invited to join our Webinar scheduled on May 12 for a live demonstration of the newly...

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...

Team Urban Turtle is proud to announce that Urban Turtle 3.0 has sim-shipped alongside Team Foundation Server 2010 and is now available for download. During the last two weeks, we've...

Most successful Agile/Scrum teams use a multi-level planning approach. There are a couple of quotes that I like and always mention in my Scrum training: “Planning is everything. Plans are...

Last week we were in Las Vegas at devconnections for the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and to present the new version of Urban Turtle. We often got the following...

Our apologies. The registration form for the Webinar scheduled on May 12th is not ready. If you are interested in participating, please send us an email at urbanturtle@pyxis-tech.com. We will...

The Urban Turtle team is proud to finally present the release candidate of our Agile Project Management extension to Team Web Access 2010: Urban Turtle 3.0. This new version sports...

Dominic (product owner on our team) and I are both big fans of Apple laptops, having recently switched from our old PCs. While I already had a macbook pro at...

By 2012, agile development methods will be utilized in 80% of all software development projects (Gartner "Predict 2010: Agile and Cloud Impact Application Development Directions"). Pyxis Technologies develops tools that...

Someone asked me some good questions this morning in my mail. Here are my answers! 1. What made you develop this? We at Pyxis Technologies are experts in Agile methodologies...

The development team is proud to announce today the release of Urban Turtle 2.1, our Agile project management tool for Team System Web Access. This new version features a simplified...

Urban Turtle in the top 5 players for Agile and Scrum based software development according to a discussion thread in LinkedIn. Louis

Pyxis Technologies, a Visual Studio Industry Partner, announces plans to simultaneously ship Urban Turtle with Visual Studio 2010. Urban Turtle is an intuitive Agile Project Management tool (plug-in) for Visual...

La structure du tableau de planification d'Urban Turtle permet de gagner beaucoup de temps par rapport à l'utilisation de l'interface classique de Team System Web Access. Grâce à la représentation...