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I need a tool to clearly present a story board to my development team on a daily basis that shows the iteration stories and the tasks that need to be done. I've tried TFS Workbench v2.2, but found that it doesn't make efficient use of the screen which is critical when using a projector and showing off to the whole team.
Previously I've used tools like XPlanner and Rally which were friendlier to use, but my current project stores everything in TFS so I have to have tight integration.
Have you given Telerik Work Item Manager and Project Dashboard a try?
http://www.telerik.com/agile-project-management-tools/tfsmanager-and-tfsdashboard.aspx
Okay, so it's not a web app, but I've found it fairly useful.
Try http://urbanturtle.com/. It's integrated with Team Web Access and does pretty well on larger screens. There are a number of convenient things built in which make it a pretty good active digital board.
Eylean Board could be a good solution for this. It offers integration with TFS, the taskboard is designed to be informative on a small or a big screen and it has nice additional features such as time tracking and reports.
Take a look at AgileWrap.
It has a built-in Taskboard that shows story and task cards for an iteration. You can project Taskboard on a big screen during daily meeting and update status of stories, tasks and defects. If you have some data in external system that you cannot move to AgileWrap then you can store external system's hyperlinks in the description and comments (links are clickable) of stories and tasks for reference.
Take a look at TaskBoard video at YouTube.
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Is it possible to create a story map in my TFS board?
The answers I've seen to this question from other people do not meet my needs. Is there another option?
A story map is a backlog arranged along two dimensions, instead of just one. Stories along the horizontal dimension are like epics or the highest level of stories that give an MVP. The items extending from each of the horizontal items are the refinement or extension of those high-level items.
A couple of options are presented in this forum discussion: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/1085bd92-c6b3-479c-a6a7-3464c8e8f60d/is-anyone-using-story-mapping-with-tfs?forum=tfsgeneral
One is a PowerPoint-TFS integration plug-in that gives visualization capabilities to TFS, but it's not specifically for story mapping.
The second is a third-party tool that is simply too expensive to be considered: http://www.speclog.net/.
Thank you.
Actually, TFS has the User story mapping function, but it is not very same to that you described above.
About the Agile/Scrum template in TFS, User Story/PBI could be mapped to Feature. Feature is the upper/parent level of User Story/PBI just like the MVP you mentioned above. About how to map a User Story to a Feature, please refer to this link: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/work/guidance/agile-process-workflow#map-user-stories-to-features.
Also in the Agile/Scrum template, Feature could also be mapped to an Epic. You could also add many Tasks as the children of a User Story. The relationship between them shows in the below picuture.
In TFS, it provides many boards for you to track your work items. You could know find the mapping relationship from those board. In the Feature backlog board, you could find which User Stories under this Feature, and so on.
Note: To learn more about Agile/Scrum in TFS, please refer to the official document.
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As a workaround, you could use Excel to export those User stories and Features and do a story map. You could refer to this blog: http://jimbrissononagile.blogspot.sg/2014/12/story-mapping-for-tfs-using-excel.html
Here is an user voice about story mapping in TFS, you could vote or submit a new at this site: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/330519-team-services/suggestions/4130976-create-a-new-view-in-tfs-task-board-to-view-backlo
We've recently published and extension for Story Mapping on TFS/VSTS: http://specmap.cc/
It's currently in preview and we're looking for feedback on it.
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I am currently developing a Ruby project and I often use code climate to see the quality of my code. The thing is, we will rewrite the code in .NET, so my boss wants to be able to monitor the quality of code by uploading the code into tool just like in codeclimate.
Do you guys know any tool alternative (free or not) to code climate for .NET?
It is very recent that I have started using SonarCube for monitoring quality of our application, and I must say that it is a very good tool with tons of features with support for variety of languages.
You can view the code quality with Visual Studio Code Analysis and Code Metrics also, but I think SonarCube is closer to Code Climate.
I am not that familiar with code climate. However there are few tools in .net arena which an do the same. You can use Visual Studio Static Analysis tool for code analysis. And also you can use nCover product as well. There is one more product called DotTrace from Jetbrains which is also a nice product in my opinion. And with Visual Studio 2015 you will receive more reading on memory usage during code execution etc. You may want to look at those features as well.
You can use NDepend, a pretty cool tool completely integrated to Visual Studio, it integrates a wide range of features.
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In one of my projects we are using Jira and Greenhopper (with Confluence) to manage everything related to the project.
Another client I'm about to start working with uses TFS with workitems and the lots. After reading some material about TFS and its "agile setup" (and seeing some demos), I am wondering if I can get the best from both worlds. TFS can still host the code and the work items, but something else gives me the planning board, task board, burndown reports, etc.
I've googled a little and found products like this: http://www.targetprocess.com/ and http://www.eylean.com/.
Does anyone know about them and can comment on them, or comment on other similar tools?
I am a sales manager of Eylean Board and ,as you mentioned, it has an integration with TFS. One of the main features that lets you easily use both tools is that Eylean simply visualises TFS work items on a Kanban board, so you wont need to learn a new tool. Other features include a time tracking system, various reports, drag and drop for task assigning, additional information for each task, etc.
More information can be found here: http://www.eylean.com/tfs
Even though this is officially off-topic (tools related advice is off-topic for StackOverflow):
Not that I know of, there are tools though that extend Team Foundation Server with additional features:
Urban Turtle,
VSO Enhancer
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I work for a mid sized Architecture and Engineering firm, our sub group focusses on developing tech solutions for engineers, mappers and technical managers. So we're heavy on desktop based apps for GIS and Civil/Env Engineering (some web). The company sells the services that our Engineers and mappers produce and our team develops tools that aids in them being more productive, efficient and help in adding value to their decesions and products, we DONOT sell the technology.
We are going through growing pains where initally we used to be extremely responsive and could rapidly prototype apps for engineers which immediately brought budgetary savings. That mindset has worked for us in the past. But this year we won a huge contract and our client base has basically quintupled (5 times?). What we are finding is that this rapid prototyping culture is hurting us, where project managers have started to expect short response times for tool development and robust production ready tools for all our engineers and gis analysts. We've grown organically and now it seems that we are running into these issues were it appears we have to scale back our speed for more stability.
Is this a legitimate tradeoff? Is there a win-win?
How does one push back the engineer, project manager and analyst when they are our clients, they fund us and yet we need to be able to push back and tell them that if they want stability they have to be realistic about time frames?
This isnt Microsoft Word, these are specialized GIS software and Engineering models with a ton of interop components for other industry standard models, they arent idiot proof tools, they need informed inputs and we can only test things so much.
Has anyone dealt with similar growing pains? Recommendations/advice on a communication stance, books, blogs?
Appreciate the time!
The best thing to do here is to start to be honest about the strain and show, in writing, what exactly is happening and who all has demands on your team. You need to show the hours that all of your tasks are taking and who is doing them and be able to show that level of status.
This merely give you some sort of proof about what's happening. At that point you can start to do the re-organization you need to do in order to start to support growth.
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Does anyone know if there is a plug-in for TFS that will print out our sprint backlog items in a format suitable for using on a Scrum Board, rather than us having to write them out by hand?
If your setup is Team Foundation Server 2010/2012/2013 with the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum process template or the MSF for Agile Software Development process template, this project can help you.
https://github.com/frederiksen/Task-Card-Creator
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If I read your question right, perfect tool right here:
http://blog.crisp.se/henrikkniberg/2007/12/18/1197973740000.html
An excel template you can use to print your backlog off. All you need to do is pull down your work items from TFS into excel, then print 'em off. Not exactly a "plug-in" but I use it for every sprint.
BTW, that blog, and the paper he references are the Scrum Bible, as far as I'm concerned.
We have successfully used a combination of a custom query, the right click -> "Open in Microsoft Excel" and a Word mail merge to print out cards for our scrum board. That lets us define exactly what we want displayed for the stories and tasks. The only downside is we cut the paper and tape it up instead of using sticky notes.
I was searching for a similar tool a while back, and we ended up just putting everything on cards & sticking them to a whiteboard.
Much easier view into our progress... however that status doesn't get into TFS unless we update it :)