we're transitioning to doing all our task tracking in TFS 2010 and I'm wondering if there is a more lightweight way of working with it than through Visual Studio?
Just some sort of web-interface or a lightweight client, or even some powershell commandlets where I can create new tasks and add information to existing ones.
You could use a tool called Eylean Board. It integrates with TFS allowing to create and manage TFS tasks in a more user-friendly interface. Besides that Eylean offers additional features such as reports, time tracking and others.
There was a web interface for TFS2008. As far as I can tell it is included by default with the 2010 edition
I use Scrum Taskboard für Team Systems for the Daily Scrum, its easy and fast to change status of SPIs and create new SPIs. There is also a planning mode to add new BPIs.
A other comprehensive tool is Telerik Work Item Manager. It provides dash board, interactive task board and many ways to sort, filter and grouping items.
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I am used to working with Perforce and I really like the ability to be able to group checked out files under different pending changelists. For example, if I am working on two bugs at the same time and the changes made for them can be grouped separately.
I am unable to find this functionality in TFS. Is this supported? If no, what is the best practice around it?
I am using VS 2015 Professional with TFS Server 2015.
No, it's not supported with pending changelists in TFS for now.
To be a workaround, this is possible using the Suspend/Resume feature in Visual Studio 2012 and above. It will allow you to keep multiple shelvesets, associated to multiple workitems. Only problem is that you can't have all two bugs open at the same time, so you'll have to check them in one by one.
More detail info please refer this link: Suspend your work and manage your shelvesets
Spent a while trying to figure this one out as our old Scrum for Team systems template did this in previous version of TFS, however I can't find a way to make a PBI automatically change its state to Done when all the associated tasks are done in TFS 2012.
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I haven't seen an out-of-the-box solution, but TFS Aggregator is a plugin that is designed to handle this scenario.
I have a list of project and bug items in fogbugz. I would like to export them into TFS instead of using the VS Fogzbug tool. Is there a tool available to do this?
You can use the TFS Integration Platform, and write an adapter for Fogbugz, but that is an expensive solution. The benefit of this solution is that you keep the history.
Another much cheaper solution is to use the Excel integration in TFS to import the items in TFS.
What should I use for syncing TFS 2008 Work Items with an external database? I just want basic functionality such as creating and updating work items in TFS so that they match our QA department's bug tracking software.
You can consider to use the Integration platform of TFS: http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com/
If you need to do it in an automated fashion, it is straightforward to do it with the API. Just modify your work item template to have an external reference for the bug-tracking system's key. That way you can keep things straight.
Is it possible to synchronize tfs (2008 or 2010) or project 2010 work items with outlook tasks (without the project server)? Is it possible to send a work item from tfs or project 2010 as an outlook task?
Short answer: Yes
Option 1: Server side
You can connect a Sharepoint Tasks list with Outlook
You get the items into Sharepoint by:
I am sure project has some pretty good Sharepoint integration (not 100% but I think it does)
You can use the TFS Integration Platfrom to do a two way sync from TFS to Sharepoint
http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com/
Option 2: Client side only (no server)
So the best option in this regard is to use a tool that makes it look like your work items are inside Outlook and give you the same facilities as tasks. Remember Work Items have a lot more fields and statuses than Tasks so you can't do a direct link without loosing information.
I would recommend using Team Companion which I think is your best solution.