Self explanatory – We put a lot more content into the reports to help you understand what the report is intended to tell you, what data you are looking at and generally give much better context for interpreting the report. Microsoft TFS integrates with Visual Studio to provide support for test planning, exploratory, manual and user acceptance testing, as well as performance and load testing. This shows how close to capacity we are for the current iteration based on the total of the remaining work for the tasks in this iteration and based on the total capacity for the team. For example, let’s say that the Fabrikam Fiber team is not delivering finished work as quickly as desired.

Testing support – We’ve added the new Team System testing tools as first class support. Creating a team project in tfs. Why 8? These capacity settings apply to the current iteration. Click the link shown in Figure 21 to view the board. We will use Team Foundation Server 2012 to manage the product backlog, create work items, break product backlog items into tasks and assign tasks to team members. The burndown chart in the top-right corner updates immediately after we make these changes. For now, leave the capacity settings unmodified, as shown in Figure 14. These scenarios are based on a scrum that contains coders, testers, a product owner, a Scrum Master and other stakeholders and uses Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 to manage its source code, run builds, test its Web site and plan and track the whole product. Although my whole next post is going to be about reporting (mostly how much better we made it to author/customize reports), this post will touch on the new reports that we’ve built for you. Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) is an on-premises tool with a host of capabilities that enable your team(s) to manage their software development efforts from planning to delivery. This new user story will enable customers to see weather-related service outages. A sprint review with customers is held at the end of each sprint to inspect the increment and adapt the product backlog if needed. Burndown helps you visualize progress on the iteration. Figure 1.

This means that we are well within the current team capacity, as shown in Figure 20. Move the “Consume OData feed for weather alerts” task to the In Progress column. Visual Studio Online makes getting started with TFS easy, and for small teams it is free. We think the Agile workbooks will be a great solution for people who want very simple, very light weight iteration based project planning and management. Volume 28 Number 03. Select a Product Backlog Item to Edit It. The result is reports that are much more visually attractive and can represent much more complex data relationships.

Result of Forecasting with a Velocity of 10. Excel has some very powerful capabilities for manipulating and presenting data. Much of it is built on the new work item tracking improvements I talked about in the last post. As we saw from the velocity chart, a velocity of 10 may not be aggressive enough for this all-star team, so click the value 10 and change it to 35.

Settings sets properties of the iteration you are planning. It exposes handy sharepoint features like Wiki Pages (on the left nav bar) and a calendar (important Dates on the right side).

We’ve made a number of improvements in the integration between the Microsoft Project client and TFS. Scrum is an iterative and incremental agile framework for developing and sustaining complex products. As you can see in Figure 3, the Home view for the Fabrikam Fiber Web team provides a high-level summary of the current iteration (Sprint 3), including team workload versus capacity, burndown of tasks over time and team favorites, which can include a configurable assortment of work item queries, build definitions and version control paths. In general, we tended towards SCRUM terminology. The product backlog also includes a simple forecasting tool that you can turn on as shown in Figure 10 to get a rough idea of what can be accomplished in future iterations. Here are some of the key advantages of the MOSS dashboards and some screenshots to go with them….