I am looking for a method to customize the capacity tab to include new field for each team member where i can specify the buffer time for each one during the sprint.
Is it possible to add such new field entry under capacity tab or not?
This isn't possible right now. You can help upvote this to increase visibility of this need to the product team in developer community: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/idea/365553/vsts-custom-team-capacity-activity-as-well-as-cust.html
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Is there anyway in Azure Devops to restrict project members to see only their assigned Product Backlog Items in Board (and not for the others)?
I mean, by default anyone can see only his/her assigned product backlog items when entered to the Board section.
I don't mean filtering by the members.
Any help is appreciated.
No. Work item view/edit permissions are controlled at the Area level; if you can view the Area, you can view all work items in that Area regardless of who they are assigned to.
There is no mechanism to restrict viewing work items beyond that.
However, it's trivial for an individual to filter the board view so that they can see only their work items.
We are using TFS to manage our backlog.
The PO believes that items priorities are constantly changing by team members other than her, which is far from ideal.
Is there a way to create a TFS query that tells me who has made the change, when, and if the change was applied to the Stack Rank? In our TFS set up the Stack Rank provides the items order in the backlog.
You can use a team alert or personal alert as Mat suggest,I have add an answer here How to create a TFS alert for changes to the items' Stack Rank field
Is it possible to assign more then one user to a backlog item in TFS?
The main reason for this would be to track discussion board inside a backlog item. For example if user1 is assigned to a backlog item and wants to discuss it with user2, the user2 would never know that he is asked to be involved in this discussion.
Depending on the version of TFS, you can use # to mention a user, which will notify them. This is a feature in VSTS and TFS 2015 Update 2.
You can assign it to a group or a team, detail ways to achieve this, please refer the link below:
In TFS 2012 we have added the Team artifact to the product. Out of the
box a team is tied to an area path. By assigning a work item to a
specific area path you basically assign it to a team. If you use the
area path for something else today, you can also use another string
field in the work item that specifies the team
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn144940.aspx)
In case you cannot use TFS 2012 or later, you can also add groups to
the Assigned To dropdown as shown in this blog post
[http://blogs.infosupport.com/how-to-assign-a-work-item-to-a-group-and-actually-have-it-show-a-list-of-values/]
Ewald Hofman TFS Program Manager
Source Link from UserVoice: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/330519-team-services/suggestions/5221575-visual-studio-online-allow-tasks-work-items-bugs
I customized the Kanban board to include new columns. These columns are mapped to the existing states, (New, Active, Resolved, Complete).
My backlog shows only the states. Is there a way for the backlog to display the new columns and not the state to which they are mapped?
Thanks!
No, sorry, this is not a feature I have seen. If you really think it will be of value, your best place is the VS User Voice site.
Why is "Unassigned" the only option available from the TFS 2013 agile task board? Why don't I see a list of team members. I have assigned team members to the team project. Also, if I open the task to get at all of the details, the Assigned To field has a list of all the users I would expect to be able to select from the agile board view.
Here's a screenshot of the Agile board where I am trying to assign the task to someone, but only see "Unassigned." I also cannot type in the field.
In my experience, this was related to capacity. For each sprint, you can set the number of hours per day and days off per user. I found that if a user was given 0 hours capacity for the sprint, they would not appear in the drop-down on the task board.
I think you don't have right in order to access your members, i suggest you to access security section in your Web Portal, check your Group and permissions associated.
try with administator group which have all permissions
This is late to the party, but in my experience this is because the drop down from the task board item view only includes team members which already have assigned tasks on the board (unless you set capacity, as above). If you edit the task by double clicking on it you can assign whoever, and then that person will appear on the drop downs for all other tasks on the board.