My team is using TFS 2008 and Conchango template for Scrum. We use the Sprint burndown chart, sprint view and sprint task board reports to track the status of tasks on daily basis. The burndown chart and sprint view are also shown on a LCD TV screen. These reports are manualy exported daily as PDF files.
Is there any utility which can pull the reports daily at scheduled interval and export them as pdf?
If the reports are available in the report server, all you need to do is create a subscription.
Go to the report server (e.g. http://tfs/reports)
Find your report and click on it to run it once.
Click on the "Subscriptions" tab.
Fill out the details, and you should be good to go.
If the reports are only available in the VS IDE, you might need to re-create them in SSRS.
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The current situation: We're manually putting together a weekly report using the information available to us in TFS. It's a mind-numbing process that takes each scrum master several hours a week to piece together. The reports include information on sprint progress, blocked stories/features, workload per team, etc.
My question: Is there a way of automating this process to run on a weekly basis and export the results to an Excel file? TFS data must be housed in a database somewhere, but I'm not sure how restricted access to this database is.
After you create and publish reports, you can use Report Manager to view, organize, and configure those reports. This could be achieved by using Report Manager. Take a look at this tutorial: View, organize, and configure reports using Report Manager
After you create and publish reports in SQL Server Report Designer,
you can use SQL Server Reporting Services' Report Manager to view,
organize, and configure those reports. By using Report Manager, you
can group related reports in folders, adjust parameters and data
sources, and schedule automated reports.
You can also configure different methods by which your reports are
saved. For example, you can save a copy of a report (sometimes
referred to as a snapshot) as report history. You can also export and
save reports and have reports copied automatically to a file share.
If you want to import report to Excel, you could write a small PowerShell script using Rest API to query info such as related work items, then you add a scheduled job that'll execute that script .
Can any one please suggest how do I enable below standard reports in TFS Reports (Scrum):
1) Status on all iteration (Scrum Template)
2) Burndown and Burnrate (Scrum Template)
TFS Reporting service is configured following below guideline and Scrum Template has been imported.
https://www.visualstudio.com/docs/report/admin/add-reports-to-a-team-project
But what I am able to see is only below four reports and not others:
1) Backlog Overview 2) Release Burndown 3) Sprint Burndown 4) Velocity
How do I get other reports over here that are listed in https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd380706.aspx ? which appears to be standard, out-of-box reports which can be used directly.
This is very well-documented if you simply looked on MSDN. I found all of this information by following a few links from the URL you initially provided.
https://www.visualstudio.com/docs/report/admin/upload-reports
Basically, you use the Team Foundation Power Tools to upload the reports.
If the reports are created for another Work Item Template than the one you use in your project then, you might not be able to use the report directly. You might however be able to get it to work with a little editing if it is just a matter of some fields that have other names.
Through the Team Explorer -> Reports click the Go To Site text link to get to the Reporting Services web page. Here you can click the little triangle for one of the existing reports and choose Edit in Report Builder or create a new one by clicking the Report Builder link in the toolbar. I have found that it is far easier to edit an existing report to accommodate your needs than starting from scratch. Over time you might get the hang of it and be able to create your own reports from scratch.
I am using AWB version 4.10.0120 and SCA version 6.10.0120. I'm trying to generate a report in audit workbench only for critical and high issues or by comment dates. Is this possible?
Open project report in workbench
Go to Reports and select the report template, i.e. Fortify Developer Workbook, OWASP top 10 2010
Go to results outline on right pan and in left pan you will see Refine issues in subsection, click on "Advanced" link
Chose the filter, Fortify Priority order: Critical &High, if you have create two filters using &operator
You can use the filter comments if you want to generate result based on comments contains some keywords
If you can apply these filter in other subsection of the report i.e. Issue count by categories, issues breakdown by analysis, executive summary.
I am using TFS 2010 and scrum template I am using is "Microsoft Visual Studion Scrum 1.0".
I have my Work Items and task added to the product backlog and to the sprint.
My problem is, I don't see any icon or menu to click and see the burn down chart.
When I googled,I found this
"This report requires that the team project collection that contains your team project was provisioned with SQL Server Reporting Services"
My project doesn't have SSRS bind to it.
Is it a must or is there any other work around for this in TFS 2010?
If you want to view the Burndown Report, you need to have SSRS Reporting installed and configured.
Maybe I am not understanding the scrum development model correctly, but I am confused why TFS places bugs on a different row than my backlog item even if the backlog item is set as its parent.
I thought that we would make a bug report, and it be placed in the TO DO column. Then as you commit code to that bug, you associate the commits with that particular task ID for the bug. Then once it is done it is moved to DONE. Is that not how scrum works? What is the typical process for fixing a reported bug?
That is the view of the task board. In the most recent Scrum process template (Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.x), the Bug is in the Requirements category. Doing so, the Bug is treated like a Product Backlog Item (it can be stacked ranked, broken down into workable tasks, and fed through the process like any other PBI). If you are on TFS 2012 Update 1, or TFService, you should have a Kanban board tab on the product backlog page which is where you would move your bugs through the states (New/Approved/Committed/Done). In the task board (screenshot above), the Bugs and Product Backlog Items will be shown as rows (where you have Task Here and Bug Here) and the the tasks will exist in the To do, In progress, and Done columns.
When you work against a bug, you work specifically against the tasks, and associate/resolve those tasks as you check in code. Once your 'Definition of Done' has been met, you can then move the Bug work item (on the Kanban board, or manually via the state field) to Done.
We are developing agile tools for TFS since 2008 at Urban Turtle. In the 2012 version we did exactly what you are looking for. Green line represent User Story (PBI) and red box represent bugs.
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