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.
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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":
I have user stories on my User Story board. Can I group them by Feature? Please help.
As an alternative, you can add tag for the User Story, then set the tag colour to emphasize selected tags.
Another way is to add swimlanes. When you add swimlanes, you can visualize the status of work that supports different service-level classes. You can create a swimlane to represent any other dimension that supports your tracking needs.
In TFS 2015, you should be able to group your User Stories underneath Epics.
If you are not sure how Epics, features, user stories and PBIs relate to each other, I found this helpful:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/30579669/9046539
The general consensus is that:
Product backlog Item is something that can be delivered in a single sprint.
Feature is something that can't be delivered in a single sprint, but that can be delivered in a single release.
Epic is something that transcends releases.
Theme is a cross cutting concern.
Theme is generally implemented as a tag in TFS and VSTS.
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
We use TFS 2013 with the Scrum 2013.4 template. We have one single project defined in a single collection.
This project contains all the backlog items for all different subsystems and their features.
To manage this backlog, we us the Portfolio Management approach.
With witadmin.exe we created another category (backlog level), as explained in this article on MSDN about Portfolio Management, under the "Add another backlog level"-section.
Only instead of "Initiative", our new category is called "Subsystem". Everything is showing up fine in TFS.
We can now categorize backlog items like this:
MainProject
--->Subsystem
------>Feature
--------->Backlog Item / Bug
------------>Task
All works fine, including different views on the backlog, where all the relations are visible
(like subsystems to features, subsystems to backlogitems, backlogitems to tasks, etc.).
The problem is that if we select the backlog of the current sprint (or any other sprint), it shows only
backlogitems and tasks, so it is unclear to which feature or subsystem the backlogitem belongs.
Is there a way to change the default query or output, so that the Sprint Backlog will also show the Features
and Subsystems in addition to the backlog items?
There is not.
Things in the backlog are part of the time limited execution flow and that does not represent sub system well.
You would be better adding a picklist to PBI, bug, and feature that had a list of sub systems. You would them be able to see on the item where it was for.
I usually reflect sub system in the area path and move team to a separate field.
http://nakedalm.com/team-foundation-server-2012-teams-without-areas/
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?