I have modified the WIT To add the estimated work on scrum task template but it's the values on not roll-up on the PBI.
Could you please provide some insight to calculate the values? Does it possible on SCRUM?
If your team project was created using the Visual Studio Scrum process template, only Remaining Work is defined in the task by default. Even though you have customized the WIT by yourself, however this will not roll up on PBI by TFS. As you have seen the Rollup requirements.
It's also reflect in report area and cube:
The cube contains all the fields of all your collections on the TFS server. A project created with the Agile or CMMI process template will
have that field and it will create the field in the cube. Scrum
projects don't have that field, so if your project is created with the
Scrum process template your Task work item does not have that field
and the value in the cube will be blank.
Actually, Scrum isn't interested in the original estimate, tracking "spent time" is not really in line the philosophy of Scrum. Suggest you stay away from tasks-in-hours marrying up to people-in-hours with using Scrum template.
Highly recommend you first go through the discussion in below threads especially Jesse's post, then consider if use estimated work in scrum:
Original Estimation in TFS
How to Find Actual Time Spent on a TASK in TFS 2013 by using the scrum template
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I need to set a default value for the Retrospective tab in TFS 2015.
Factory value is the following (TEXT 1):
What worked?
What didn't work?
What will we do differently?
Using the Powertools, I add a DEFAULT rule. In the rule i specify the following default value for the Retrospective (TEXT 2):
What worked?
Please check out what you wanted to do differently in the last two sprints.
What didn't work?
What will we do differently?
So really it's just adding Please check out what you wanted to do differently in the last two sprints.
Now here comes the problem. I save my work, and if I create a sprint in Visual Studio, TEXT 2 is displayed.
If I create a Sprint in Online TFS (accessed from browser), it will show TEXT 1.
Did anyone have a similar problem in the past?
Thank You in advance!
The Sprint work item, used in TFS 2010 with the MS Scrum 1.0 process template, was removed from the Scrum process template 2.0 of TFS 2012.
However since TFS 2012, you configure the sprint schedule as part of the new Agile Planning feature, making the Sprint work item redundant.
So your options for storing the goals\retrospective:
Use a Task work item (Title, Description fields)
Add custom field in the Product Backlog Item
Use SharePoint integration - store as a document
Doing the upgrade from TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 (to go after at TFS 2015). No problem during the migration. I'm now at the step to configure features for each project and the verify button give me this error:
Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: stream
Information that can help figure out the problem. We are using the template "EMC - Scrum for team system" and that template was changed a little for our need. Only have 3 work items for that project.
How can I know what to look for to fix this error?
We want to change the template and use the new Agile template from TFS 2015 at the upgrade is done from TFS 2012 to 2015. How can I change from one template to another one inside a TFS project?
thanks
The configure features wizard is not going to be able to do its magic on a customised SfTS3 process template so you're going to be configuring features manually.
Add Features Using a Manual Update Process
It will be a reasonable amount of work but can be done. However, if you plan to migrate to the Agile process (I prefer to use the Scrum process, personally) then you may as well get busy doing that.
Options:
Create a new project with the Agile template and migrate your Work Items/Code (Excel/Integration Platform/etc.)
Start bending the SfTS template into the shape of the Agile template
Migrating Scrum for Team System 3.x to MS Scrum 2.0 /
Migrate a TFS project to another process template
I'm working on a large software project that uses TFS for Backlog management. We're using the Scrum 2.2 template in TFS 2012. Are there any tools out there that will give diffs of particular fields (e.g. Description, Acceptance Criteria) so that I can see how these fields have changed over time and who made them ? Sort of like the 'Annotate' feature in the Source Control explorer, but for Backlog Items instead ?
You can create your own tool to highlight differences between revisions of a specific work item field with TFS API. You need to work with WorkItem.Revisions property.
There is one tool available with which you can have a reference to get started quickly, see: http://gethistory.codeplex.com/
Spent a while trying to figure this one out as our old Scrum for Team systems template did this in previous version of TFS, however I can't find a way to make a PBI automatically change its state to Done when all the associated tasks are done in TFS 2012.
Thanks
I haven't seen an out-of-the-box solution, but TFS Aggregator is a plugin that is designed to handle this scenario.
We currently use Scrum for Team System on TFS 2008. As I'm about to start upgrading our TFS server to 2010 I'd like to also remove the need for any of the Conchango templates in favour of native agile support.
Is there any way of doing this while preserving current data or is it safest to just start again using the new templates?
You can attempt a migration of the Scrum for Team System 2008 workitems to the MSF Agile 2010 by using the TFS Integration Tools and creating mappings from the old templates to the new ones.
I had exactly the same challenge more than a year ago and made an attempt to do the mapping. This is a massive job, because for each attribute of each type of workitem you need to find a proper mapping, often also converting data types. After having achieved this partially for the user story workitem, we decided to just start over all new with the MSF template.
Some people have attempted migration with Excel in between, which might be working for some simple items.
So IMHO, if you have a lot of items that must be migrated from 2008 to 2010 between different templates, you might try to get the most essential attributes (title/description/etc) over by migration either using the TFS Integration tools or Excel. In case the bold sections do not apply, do not bother the effort and start over new.