I have managed to remove weekends from the sprint burndown chart within the TFS report server however cannot get the change to reflect on the Web Access view.
Following some documentation online I have even made changes to the 'Sprint Burndown.rdl' report within the Scrum 2013 Process Template and uploaded this back into TFS however this didn't appear to change anything.
Has anyone managed to successfully remove weekends from this chart?
The Web Access module uses a different location to store what weekdays are and which aren't. You cannot remove weekends from the graph, this is a much requested feature and according to the admin comment it is coming soon.
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Visual Studio team (Product Team, Microsoft) responded · Aug 22, 2013:
We’re starting work on this and should be able to close it down soon. Stay tuned.
It might ship with TFS 2013 update 2 if they managed to fix this.
Update
TFS 2013 update 2 RC now has the features to set Team Days off, which will effectively hide the weekends and these team days off from the burndown chart.
Non-working days – Starting with Update 2, you can define you’re non-working days (weekends, for most of us) and we’ll exclude them from the burn down calculation so it no longer looks like you are on track when you really aren’t (because you don’t plan to work the weekend :)).
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/02/05/vs-tfs-2013-2-update-2-ctp-released.aspx
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Can anyone share a .bak file of TFS complete collection to test and see the options of burn down and iteration velocity, but don't have enough data on one day. I have downloaded the FabrkPrice.bak but it was for TFS 2013 and I have to update TFS, I want one for TFS 2012 please
For TFS, there have always been the Brian Keller VM's. There are downloads for every major version of TFS:
2015: http://vsalmvm.azurewebsites.net/
2013 & 2012: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/briankel/2013/04/17/list-of-all-visual-studio-alm-virtual-machines/
For VSTS there are a few alternatives. One is to import the Brian Keller VM into VSTS. You'd have to upgrade it to 2015 update 3 and would probably need to tweak the work item schema a bit. The problem with this solution is that while the Brian Keller VM's always start at the same point in time, your VSTS account will start to lag. So while the diagrams and graphs all look nice now, they're going to be behind after a week.
OpsHub TFS Migration tool
Microsoft High Fidelity Import (currently in closed beta)
Another option is the Sample Data Widget. It can be used to pre-populate a VSTS account with data so that it looks good for demo purposes. It doesn't populate all the kinds of data you'd get from the Brian Keller VM, but you'd get a nice backlog and burndown:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalmrangers/2016/03/25/sample-data-widget/
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-devlabs.SampleDataWidget
I noticed that I can change the order of the PBIs of the current sprint on visualstudio.com via Drag&Drop. At work we use TFS 2013 on our own server (I think the newest version Update 4) and that's not possible. Both use the SCRUM template.
Is this a configuration issue? It would help a lot if this would work at our own TFS too. What should I do?
The features available in VSO are beyond that of TFS 2013 update 4. The feature that you are referring to is planned for TFS 2015.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-gb/news/release-archive-vso
For most customers, regardless of size, I recommend moving to VSO to get access to the latest and greatest features as they become available.
I would like to modify the Burndown chart in TFS 2012's Scrum 2.0 Template so that weekends no longer show. I've already looked at this article, but unfortunately the solution listed there doesn't apply to the Burndown Chart when running from Board View.
Does anyone have a suggestion for how I can modify it in Board View?
UPDATE: The burndown excludes the weekends on Visual Studio Online. Later this year, this feature ships with TFS 2013 Update 2 for on-prem customers.
See the announcement at http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2014-jan-22-vso.
If you want to configure the working days of your team, you can click on the gear button in the top right corner which will open the admin area in a new tab. Click on your team, and choose the “settings” tab.
The TFS team on uservoice explained recently that they started working on this feature request Burndown chart should exclude non-work days.
My team and internal business customers often ask the start/end dates for sprints and the projected release date. Is there a way to attach a note to an iteration in TFS so that these dates can be published and/or queried?
Take a look at the following links which describe how to set start and end dates to your sprints and be able to track these dates. Also, check out the new Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process templates. It may have the ability to add notes or more information to your iterations since it has a sprint work item type. TFS 2012 has the type of functionality you mentioned as well.
Make Agile Work for You in TFS 2010
Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0
Im working with TFS 2012 preview and my sprints include work on weekends, however tfs preview doesn't include weekends in it's sprint calculation.
How can I include weekends?
It is not currently possible to do this on Team Foundation Service (formally TFS Preview) as you are not able to customize the Process Template.
While the Product Team would love to provide this feature there is currently no time frame on implantation. This stems form the complexities in upgrading templates as the product moves forward and if you make changes they will no longer be able to upgrade it for you.
If you have an on-premises Team Foundation Server then you would be able to make this customization.
I would suggest that you make the request on: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com