Currently using Team Foundation Server 2012 (version 11.0.50727.1), I have a developers' team working with the backlog and board pages, which is fine.
And I also have a bunch of clients, who are not developers. I would like to give them a sufficient access to be able to see the backlog and board pages. I'm understanding the "limited" rights are not enough.
What permissions are needed to be able to do that? Plus, if I need them to create/edit/delete work items, what licence do they need?
To use the agile planning features in TFS2012 (backlog management and boards) each person must be licensed with either Visual Studio Test Professional, Premium or Ultimate.
If you have CALs for those people you need to ensure their web access permissions are set to Full, via the admin panel.
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/govdev/archive/2012/09/06/license-the-new-tfs-2012-agile-planning-boards.aspx
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In Visual Studio Online, I don't have the Mapping On/Off option for mapping a feature to a product backlog item. MS says that you do it this way:
http://www.visualstudio.com/get-started/create-your-backlog-vs
relevant screenshot from instruction link below:
I do not have that Mapping On/Off option. Anyone know why?
Update: The backlog hierarchy features in Visual Studio Online were moved down to the Basic level and every account includes five
free basic licenses. This should now start showing up for everyone.
Is your user account assigned a Visual Studio Online Advanced user plan or an eligible MSDN Subscription? At the current time, to access the Agile Portfolio Management features in Visual Studio Online or Team Foundation Server, you will need access to the advanced capabilities by making sure your account is tied to one of the following:
Visual Studio Online Advanced user plan
Visual Studio Premium with MSDN
Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN
Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN, or
MSDN Platforms
Here are a couple of links to help get you going:
Assign licenses to users in Visual Studio Online
Change Access Levels (for TFS/Visual Studio Online which lists all of the features by access level)
According to this blog post by Brian Harry, the agile portfolio management aspect of TFS2013 and Visual Studio Team Services has a feature to create different levels of backlog items.
For instance, a backlog of business initiatives can be broken down into a backlog of scenarios and then into a backlog of user stories, etc. You can manage the backlog at each level and trace the relationships.
and
All of this will be included in TFS 2013 and is available on Team Foundation Service today for you to start to explore.
I can't see anywhere to do it on Visual Studio Team Services. According to this page on MSDN you can do it via witadmin by exporting an existing work item type, modifying it, and reimporting it.
However trying to do this with Visual Studio Team Services results in the following error:
TF237113: You don't have enough permissions to complete the import operation.
Which seems to be a common complaint, e.g. there are lots of comments about it at UserVoice.
Is it possible then in Visual Studio Team Services to add a different level of backlog item?
Visual Studio Team Services doesn't allow you to customize the process template and/or Work Item definitions. That's why witadmin isn't working.
However, the Portfolio Management features are available in Team Services. If you are using the Scrum Process Template you will have Features that are broken down into a backlog of PBIs, and the PBIs are broken down into Tasks. You do not have the ability in Team Services to add additional layers like you do in TFS on-premise.
We are currently working on how to best manage our projects in TFS 2012. We are planning to create multiple team in order to manage concurrent iteration on the same project for distinct feature not released at the same time so we did two team (Project 1, Project 2).
The problem we currently have is how can I manage team member capacity when assigning a member to multiple Team. Is ther a way to view Capacity assign to a member for all current iteration of every team without navigating between multiple sprint?
What you want is not supported with the current tools, nor have we plans as for now to support this in the near future.
Feel free to add your suggestion to User Voice. We use that list to help prioritize our work.
This functionality is provided out-of-the-box and has been available since TFS 2008. You will require to install Microsoft Project Server onto the SharePoint implementation that you use with TFS (or another one if you like) and then configure the integration.
By installing Team Foundation Server Extensions for Project Server, project managers can use Microsoft Project Server to access up-to-date project status and resource availability across agile and formal software teams who work in Team Foundation. This integration enables data to flow from work items in Team Foundation Server (TFS) to tasks in enterprise project plans in Project Server. Project managers and software development teams can use the tools that they prefer, work at the level of precision that supports their needs, and share information transparently. After the two server products are configured, the synchronization engine maintains scheduling data and resource usage for the configured data in the mapped enterprise project plan and team project.
For TFS 2010 there is an Add-on, but for TFS 2012 it is included in the product.
Enable Data Flow Between Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Project Server
Microsoft® Team Foundation Server® 2010 and Microsoft Project Server® 2010 Integration Hyper-V Virtual Machine
I've installed TFS 2012 Express on Windows server 2008.
Created new project, and choose the Scrum 2.0 process template.
From all the tutorials, I understand that I am supposed to have backlog, board and work items tabs.
However, I have only the work items. How do I get the two others?
Here: View Backlog link is missing from the TFS11 home page
someone pointed that there is Web Access Permissions setting in the Administration page,
but in the Administration page, I am also missing the web acess tab.
Agile Planning tool are not available in TFS Express. Under the "Agile/Scrum" section of the post it says:
Product Backlog and Sprint Planning – these require Premium or Ultimate (see this post about enabling via the licensing feature)
At the end of the article it also mentions:
[UPDATE 6/7/2012] TFS Express does not include any of the Agile features. It is really focused on source control, build, and bug tracking. You can read more about it here.
I'm looking for a way to add work items into tfs from the project portal that it creates. Basically we want our helpdesk to be to raise workitems inside of tfs, so we can then track the build etc that there fixed in.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Microsoft released the Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool.
Base download
Service pack 1
Team System Web Access SP1 lets you do all the things you can do in Visual Studio in your browser. You can view, create, and edit work items, associate work items with each other and with changesetsand view source, diffs, changeset contents, and branches.
SP1 also includes what was once called TFS Work Item Web Access. Work Item Web Access lets users without TFS licenses submit and view work items through the browser.
With a little SharePoint magic you should be able to frame Team System Web Access within your existing team sites.