Found issues online but no solutions yet, and uservoice is down. I have two questions:
Is there a way to make a kanban board template and be able to use that in other projects? Ex. a team wants to create an additional project but wants all of their customization changes to be added to the new project (like board columns and rules).
When looking at the user story portfolio backlog kanban board, is there a way to add the parent link to each card?
Thanks
Q1:
Unfortunately, for now there isn't such a feature in VSTS/TFS to share Kanban template across teams in a project.
There's already an user voice submitted to suggest the feature: share kanban format across teams, you can vote it and follow up there.
Q2:
No, you cannot add the parent link to each card/wit, you can only open the specific work item (user story here) and add parent link manually.
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How can I see the Epic related with the user story on the own user story?
Is there option on TFS of Microsoft?
Epics are hierarchically above Features. Features are mapped to Epics, like user story items are mapped to Features.
There is no way to directly see the Epic through the own user story itself. However, as a workaround, you can LINK work items and you can display them as a Tree List,see it through a backlog.
Also have a check of this link for further information on how to use TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs: Implement Scaled Agile Framework® to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs
How do I share artifacts (e.g diagram and docuement) across the entire project, not just at issue level at JIRA? Something like a common area for posting information.
A couple of possibilities spring to mind.
Firstly you could use the HipChat integration. Sending messages via comments to a team HipChat group.
Another option would be to create a generic JIRA user with an email address that is a mailing list for your team. That way you can use the Mentions functionality to inform everyone of something.
More about the mentions functionality here: Atlassian - Using Mentions
Use an Epic in the project
If you are using Jira Agile you can simply create an epic (called Documentation) and house all of your documents in the epic itself or group documentation by creating subtasks in the epic to essentially create "folders". To ensure the team is seeing any changes add them all to the "watchers" list.
Use a Confluence Space
If you have access to Jira Confluence, just create a project space and create or link your documents there. Another benefit of using confluence is you can make these documents available to external customers (no need of a Jira account). To ensure the team is seeing any changes add them all to the "watchers" list.
Creating a Space
https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-a-space-139463.html
Use a Project Dashboard
Use a dashboard and ask that your team pay attention to this every day. Dashboards are a great way to propagate information to distributed teams.
Customizing the Dashboard
https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/customizing-the-dashboard-185729498.html
I am new to TFS 2012 and would like some help in customizing a few things. We currently have the TFS setup with the template " MSF for Agile Software Development". This was setup before I started working with TFS. I have done some research online, but I have not been able to get answers for my questions. I was hoping someone could help me customize our TFS a little. Some questions:
How do I add a new Work Item Type? We currently have Bug, Issue, User Story and Task. I would like to add Feature and Product Backlog. I would like to be able to create Product Backlog Items and link the Tasks and User Stories to them.
How do I add different Work Item Types the Kanban Board?
It's a bit much to answer all of your question in a short and concise StackOverflow answer, but here are the starting points:
How to customize Work Item Types
Create s Work Item Type
Add bugs to the task board or backlog
Customize work tracking objects to support your team's processes
witAdmin: Administering Objects for Tracking Work Items
Note: Many of the customization you want to do come out of the box with TFS 2013. It's probably a lot less work and easier to maintain to just upgrade than to introduce all of this customization.
See below link on how to create new work item type.
Modify or add a custom work item type: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh409273.aspx
But it looks like you don't need new work item type here because work item type "Feature" is already available in TFS 2012. See below link. The link is for 2013 but if you switch to 2012 you will see feature there as well.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997897.aspx
Product backlog item(pbi) is a term used in Scrum so if you use scrum template you will see pbi instead of user story. So user story is your equivalent to pbi.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms400752.aspx
I would like to know if is it possible to watch multiple burndown charts in one page.
We're using TFS and we have several projects in course. My boss wants to see in one page the burn downs of these projects, having a kind of dashboard. Do you know if tfs has something to do it?
Otherwise I will have to create a webpage and link them
There's nothing out of the box that lets you look at burndowns for a portfolio of team projects. You'll have to create the web page.
Can we add/modify the filter of the boards:
Work/Backlog/product backlog/board(the stories/backlogitems)
Should be able to filter the Iterations/Sprints
Work/board(tasks)
Should be able to change the Areapath filtering
Is there any way to change the default filter and/or add quick filters?
As per this post, you can't really amend the underlying
query for the task board:
How do I change the underlying query for the task board (and backlog board) on TFS Preview
Although as mentioned the tags in TFS 2012 Update 2 can help.
However we achieved something similar to what you are
asking by creating a team per product.
In the web control panel for your team project, create teams (and area paths) for
each product you are interested in.
In the control panel, for each of these teams, you can set which
iterations are associated with them. So for a particular team,
you associate only the iterations you are interested in for that
product.
You are then able to switch between teams via a drop-down at the
top-left in the TFS web interface (you will need to use Browse All
originally.)
See Multiple Teams with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2012 & Visual Studio Scrum V2.0 for a good reference for this.
The Work Item Tagging feature in TFS 2012 Update 2 can help.
Other than that, you can write your own plugin.