I would like to know if is it possible to watch multiple burndown charts in one page.
We're using TFS and we have several projects in course. My boss wants to see in one page the burn downs of these projects, having a kind of dashboard. Do you know if tfs has something to do it?
Otherwise I will have to create a webpage and link them
There's nothing out of the box that lets you look at burndowns for a portfolio of team projects. You'll have to create the web page.
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I'm using ADO dashboards.( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/report/dashboards/overview?view=azure-devops ).
I want to have many different charts / query tile views, each serving a distinct purpose but they are all related to a project. Right now I have to create distinct dashboards for each. Is there a way to have tabs within one dashboard so i can still separate the views but not have to go to different dashboards all the time.
Sorry this is not available, we do not have tabs in the dashboard at the moment.
You may have to go to different dashboards and manually select/switch the view.
You could create a related user voice and vote up in our feature request page from Developer Community site. Our PM will kindly review your suggestion.
I have an existing team working on one solution using Visual Studio Online. Now I have to add new developer to work on one of the projects. Due to security concerns I have to hide other team members' contact details and ideally names as well.
How can I accomplish this?
You're not going to be able to have everyone working in the same team project and keep this information hidden. There are ways to minimize the avenues through which someone can see the information -- for example, you could isolate the one developer into their own team, so names/emails wouldn't show up on the team's home page -- but if they're working on the same code in the same repository, they'll be able to see things like commit history, which will definitely have identifying details attached.
How can I display a tile on my TFS project home page with the remaining effort across all user stories?
We're using the Scrum template in TFS 2012.
It's easy to write a query for the number of Product Backlog Items, or the number of Tasks, but I'd really like a metric showing the remaining effort for both.
Unfortunately, this is not possible in the TFS WA.
You could alternatively create an Excel report and integrate it in the SharePoint dashboard.
What is the best way to store a task for multiple users in TFS 2010 ? I can only assign one for one task.
(for example: when I plan a demo to all developers)
(this is a scrum Msf Agile project, where the task is part of a user story)
I'm sorry to tell you that you can't assign multiple users to a single work item out of the box; At the same time, I do not recommended trying as this, as it does not fit the model in TFS. The conventional / recommended way to handle this type of scenario is to create multiple tasks; one for each developer in this case. You can easily accomplish this by copying a set of tasks using MS Excel. Another option (given the example you used) is to create a "Meeting" work item that has multiple drop-downs - one for each person that would attend meetings like for a demo or a technical review.
Yet another option is to create a custom control to format and store a list of users. This would likely be relatively complex to maintain, as you have to distribute it to each user's machine (it will need to be installed locally), and last I checked you would need 2 versions; one for the Team Explorer user interface and another for the Web Access tool that most people use to create work items from a web page on their TFS server. Future updates to TFS could possibly break your custom control. It is rarely worth the effort. Another downside is the you would likely be limited by how you can use MS Excel to work with the data you store in the field that the custom control works with. If you want to look into this further you can find some examples in the following CodePlex project: http://witcustomcontrols.codeplex.com/
You might consider your true goals in tracking such things as meetings and other items you want to assign multiple people to. Tasks are the heart of tracking progress of user stories in the MSF Agile Template. Tracking meeting attendance does not typically relate directly to a User Story, for example; so it won't typically assist you to determine how much close you are to being "done" with a User Story. If you want to take advantage of the existing reports, then you should organize your tasks so that they roll up as child work items to User Story (or Bug) work items.
Short story: you can't. Work items in the Process Template of Microsoft are designed to target nobody or only one User.
Now you can customize the Process Template to change this.
Take this post for instance, the customization works for group. But I don't recommend you to do so because TFS is basically not designed for that and you may end up disappointed.
I know its a noob question, but
I have setup a pilot for TFS2010, I want to demo this for business/project managers in our company. From what I think, TFS server allows you to view reports like
- Active items
- bugs
- time remaining etc
in a chart or graph form. I have installed SQL server reporting service on TFS as well, how can I view reports, do I need share point for this? Do I need to install something extra to enable reports?
The idea is, business/project people will not have VS installed, so they will use web-access to create tasks, bugs etc. Kindly guide me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Ali
For the demo, you will need to create a TFS project. In the process of doing this you will have to select a so-called process template. For example, the default MSF Agile template contains some default reports that will be uploaded to the report server for you while the TFS project is created. No additional actions are needed.
You do not need SharePoint for the reports to be displayed, since the report server has its own website. However, the integrated SharePoint portal shows other project management capabilities, like the sprint backlog, which allows capacity planning for your teams. We use that one and shows-off very good :-)
So, I would say, create the TFS project, with the SharePoint and the Agile template, insert some realistic demo data for user stories, tasks, bugs and register some time on the tasks performed and remaining. If you do this over a couple of days, your report will show-off good, like a sprint is in action.