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.
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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.
Is it possible in TFS 2015 on-premise to modify a collections process templates? According to the article here, there should be a "process" tab on the web interface, collection administration page. This document is for 2015 but is a little old. Should this feature be available for 2015 on-premise upgrade 2? Am I missing a permission?
https://www.visualstudio.com/docs/work/customize/customize-work#team-projects-and-processes-team-services-
Just as the article mentioned, the settings are with VS Team Service. Team projects and processes (Team Services) And there is no “process” tab on the web interface for TFS2015.
Scroll down the page and you will see Team projects and process templates (TFS)
When you work with an on-premises TFS, you customize your work
tracking experience through one or more XML definition files. You can
start by customizing a process template and its XML definition files,
and then create a team project based on the template. Or, you can
simply make modifications as needed to add customizations to the work
item fields, work item types, and other objects that support tracking
work.
In all of the documentation on msdn, I see a a "Backlog items" list on the TFS Work page. For example:
However, I don't see that in my project. Mine shows only Features and User Stories:
This is a project I inherited. It's hosted on-premise. I believe the process template is a customized version of the agile process template. How can I get the "backlog items" list back?
The Agile template uses User Stories. The Scrum template uses Product Backlog Items. They serve the same purpose; it's mostly a terminology thing. You can't really switch between different process templates.
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
I have a project portal set up, and under dashboards in the left-hand nav, I see "My Dashboard" and "Project Dashboard". Apparently there are other dashboards available, like Burndown, Quality, Bugs, Test, and Build, but they aren't available to me.
Any idea how I can access them?
This usually happens if you select a project type that doesn't support these modules (use Agile or Scrum) or if the features aren't enabled on the SharePoint site where the project portal is hosted.
Go to Site Settings > Site Collection Features. Make sure Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Web Part Collection is enabled.
Go back to Settings, Go to Site Actions and Manage Site Features. Check if the Agile Dashboards with Excel are enabled.