I am wondering if there is a way of using the kanban board for sprint backlogs in TFS 2015.
When you click Board on Epics, Features and Stories it shows a kanban board that is centered around user stories. I would like to see that same board but filtering all user stories in for example sprint 50 (sprint backlogs are defined by us as Iterations)
When you click the Sprint / Iteration it shows a taskboard - this is the one I would like to change.
This is not support in TFS2015. But with the latest TFS2017, You are able to filter the items in Kankan board by "Iteration":
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We have Feature and PBIs with Effort set using Story Points but the Sprint Burndown only shows what looks lie the time Effort of the Tasks.
This is not that useful as it is the Story points of the PBIs or even Features that we wish to use
The built-in TFS burndown it according your Tasks, not the PBIs, see here more info.
In Azure DevOps Server 2019 and above you can add burndown chart according to Story Points:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/report/dashboards/configure-burndown-burnup-widgets
There was in the past an extension Real Sprint burndown that is a chart for people using story point estimations per PBI, but I see now it's unpublished from the Marketplace.
You can go to his GitHub and try to build it and use it.
For the Kanban board (the one that is displaying the Stories or the Features) I'd like to include only the items from the current iteration.
It's possible to filter this board?
Recent updates to TFS 2015 include some of these capabilities. See Filter Kanban Board on MSDN for details on what is supported.
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No, it's impossible. For now, kanban board has no filtering capability.
This have been a feature request in uservoice. And get a start response for PM.
Provide filtering options for the Kanban board
We are adding the
ability to filter the board on any field. We expect to deliver this in
Q2 2016.
Sandeep Chadda
Program Manager
TFS 2017 has some nice filter capabilities.
On the main page of the kanban board you can filter by Keyword, Item type, Assigned to, Tags, Iteration or Parent work item.
We have an on premises install of TFS 2015.
In the Requirements Backlog, we can add Board Columns and Swimlanes, but these do not show up under any of the iterations.
Our iterations only have Proposed, Active, Resolved, and Closed.
How do I add new Board Columns and Swimlanes to our iterations?
We would also like to be able to split the columns for doing and done in the Board Column on the iterations.
Custom sprint board columns are not available yet, only backlog board.
There is a UserVoice request for it: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/330519-team-services/suggestions/3229015-customize-the-columns-on-the-task-board
In the web client for TFS 2013 on premise, there doesn't seem to be any way to see a story point total for a sprint.
In the overall backlog, under Stories, it shows a simple bar graph with story point history for previous sprints. What we need to know though is how many story points we've added to the current sprint to aid us in sprint planning. We can sum the story points manually, or export them to Excel, or create a grease monkey script, but it seems like this is a fundamental feature. Are we just missing this?
Is possible to hide "Done" pbis from the actual sprint board? For instance, if you not actually using Sprints, but want to continue to use the task board, once you complete a PBI (mark the state as done). I'd love it to vanish from the sprint board.
Team Foundation Task Board Enhancer is a free extension that gives an option to collapse all done backlog items. Might be the closest you can get without having to make your own customizations.