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
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In TFS 2015 we are using the Scrum process template. When I 'group by people' only the tasks are showing up on the board, but not the PBI's (product backlog items) or bugs.
How can I get the PBI's and Bugs that are assigned to my team to show up when I group the backlog by people? Is this possible?
You can't see User Story if you use "Group by: People".
But you can see bugs, you need to configure it according the picture:
Another option: you can install Query based boards extension, This extension allows you to visualize the result of work item queries on a board. The order by clauses of the query are respected on the board.
After installing the extension, navigate to the Work hub, and select Queries. When opening a query, a new tab called Board is available to visualize the results on a board.
Bugs could be added by default, the detail steps please follow the
official tutorial-- Show bugs on backlogs and boards
However, for PBIs, you need to do it by customizing your process
or team project, based on the process model you use. For details,
please refer this link: Add other work item types to your backlogs
or boards
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.
I'm using TFS (web) and using the scrum template. On the main page/dashboard, under Work->Create New->Epic. I have created an Epic. This epic is associated to Sprint 5 in my project. I've also created sub story associated with that epic. However, I'm unable to see that story, or the epic under sprint 5.
When I query the epic, TFS displays it, so I know for sure that exists. But it doesn't list in Sprint.
Please help.
Typically Epics don't belong to Sprints, they are higher level. When you are in the sprint planning screen or the sprint taskboard view, it will show requirements (ie user stories, use cases, pbi's, bugs, defects) and tasks.
You can always create a WI query to return all PBI's and Epics assigned to a Sprint if you want.
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
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.