I've just set up reporting capabilities on my TFS 2012, and would like to add reports to it, preferably related to our agile processes.
I remember that back in the days of TFS2008 there were some reports out-of-the-box, provided by Microsoft. But for 2012 version, nothing was installed by default nor I cannot find any reports pack on the web, available for download.
Isn't there any reports available for download anywhere (other than the administrative ones)?
I guess you are using Scrum Process Template, I guess also you talk about the SharePoint Dashboard reports, any you are not talking about reports that exist on the reporting server, if this true.....
Scrum Process Template for SharePoint Dashboard doesn't contain reports, but if you create team project using MSF-For-Agile or MSF-For-CMMI you will find a lot of reports.
I work with the Urban Turtle team and we're currently developing an agile dashboard that embed directly in TFS. We'll release the first version of our Dashboard at the end of this month (february).
It will contain a lot of useful reports to follow your Agile project. If you want to have more information: http://urbanturtle.com/tfs-agile-dashboard/
Hope this helps!
try alternative i am not sure that it will work or not.
use
http://tech.lds.org/wiki/LDS_.NET_Stack/TFS_Reports_using_Excel
for manual reporting..
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I have been responsible for administrate our TFS projects and have started to investigate the current configurations. I found the following link for determining which process our team projects are connected to: How to determine what Process template an existing TFS 2012 project is configured with?
When using the rest API described in the article above, it seems like the projects depend on a process template called "Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2013". When reading this article: Scrum process it seems to me that the process is outdated and should be upgraded to use the "Scrum" template.
I have searched the internet for knowledge on how to upgrade the project to use the new Scrum process but had no luck of finding an answer. Does anyone have an idea of how to update the projects to depend on a newer process? Maybe the whole question is wrongly put as I may lack some obvious knowledge about how these things are meant to work. All I want is to ensure our projects are updated to use the latest TFS technology.
We use Visual Studio 2017 and did recently upgrade our TFS server to TFS 2018.
In general, some new features will be introduced when upgrade from old to new version of TFS.
Generally if you haven't made any changes to the original process template, upgrading is quite easy. Just enable new features by running the Configure Features Wizard in your team projects configuration page.
If it can’t upgrade automatically, you need to apply updates manually. See Add updates to team projects manually.
If you customized the process template, then you can follow the steps mentioned in this link to Update a customized process template to access new features.
To update the existing projects, a not so nice but easy way is to remove all work items and process data from your project and then add the newest items. Martin Hinshelwood has some great guidance on how to do this.
Our IT installed TFS 2017 (15.112.26307.0). It's a clean installation. It currently has few startup projects, just to see and explorer features. But the projects are missing "Process" link under Project Template page, to configure Agile/Scrum/CMMI. I don't see link for "Configure Features" either. My account has Project Administrator and Project Collection Administrators privileges. Ultimately we would like to explorer Agile process. Any help appreciated.
The Process tab is something that Microsoft has been building for VSTS and which is likely to come to on-prem in the near future. But for now TFS still uses the old XML based work item templates which offer a higher level of customizability, but which are also much harder to maintain.
For specific guidance on using witadmin.exe check out:
TFS Process Template Customisation Guide
Practical guidance for Work Item Tracking (WIT) and Process Template customizations.
We are in a process of evaluating tfs azure.
We've migrated three of our projects(solutions) and created a specific project for each of the solutions in tfs azure.
Now we are looking for something to enable a visual overview of the current build status for all the three projects.
I know that I can get a overview of each project, by going to it's site, but I'd like an gathered overview of all the projects.
Today we are using Jenkins, connected to our local tfs 2010, and that gives us an direct overview of all the build statuses.
Does anybody know a tool for that?
After discussion with the Windows Azure team, the respons is that they don't support this at the moment. You can get a build overview on the project level, but not on the collection level.
I'm aware of the stand-alone Work Item Manager from Telerik, and an outdated project on Codeplex that doesn't work with TFS 2010.
Are there any other tools that end-users to easily enter bug-reports and have them submitted to TFS as work items? Something web-based would be preferrable, but i'd be ok with stand-alone.
WIM looks nice, but it's a little too much for end users to simply submit bugs. And they're not in TFS and don't have Team Explorer. So what other options are there?
Like John said in his comments, there is Web Access (http://mytfsserver:8080/tfs/web) which you can use to report bugs. It is even possible to let external users to create new bugs and track them without needing a CAL (license): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668124.aspx
You can give users a url that opens a new bug form and prepopulates some values for them: http://www.ewaldhofman.nl/post/2009/05/06/Initial-values-in-a-work-item.aspx
Usersnap for TFS is exactly what you need.
Add Usersnap to your web project and connect Usersnap with TFS - you will get bug screenshots directly added to your TFS tickets as attachment:
Your users don't need to login and you don't need any CALs for them.
Full disclosure: I'm CTO and Co-Founder of Usersnap.
If you have a Team Project SharePoint site associated with your TFS project, you can even use the shipped and ready to use SharePoint Product Backlog webpart that comes with the Agile process template to enter new Bugs. Very low threshold and little pre-requisites for users.
Does anybody have links to site or pre built report running on the SQL Analysis Service provided by TFS2008?
Creating a meaningful Excel report or a new report sometime is a very boring and difficult taks, maybe finding a way to share reports could be a good idea?
Try this download: Creating and Customizing TFS Reports, it includes a few samples and some guidance. More here.
Also try the TFS Reporting Samples.zip linked from this site.
This site links to a large number of TFS reporting resources:
http://blogs.msdn.com/teams_wit_tools/archive/2007/03/26/tfs-report-developer-resources.aspx
If you are using SCRUM, this has Sprint reports and Product Burndown reports:
http://www.scrumforteamsystem.com/en/default.aspx