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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 :)
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One of the key differences between the MSF for Agile template and the Visual Studio Scrum template is that Scrum
manages bugs along with product backlog items during sprint planning
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ms400752(v=vs.110).aspx
The Scrum approach makes sense to me. Fixing a bug involves planned work and creates some sort of benefit for end users.
Why are bugs not managed as backlog items using the agile template?
Is the team expected to just absorb time spend fixing bugs?
Is the template assuming another resource will attend to bugs outside of the project scope?
The expected workflow in the Agile template, is that a Bug WI will be created, then a linked User Story to represent the work to fix that bug. The User Story is what goes on the backlog and is prioritized.
If you inspect the Bug WITD XML you will see that in the transition from Active to Resolved one of the Reasons is "Copied To Backlog", this is meant to indicate a related User Story was created.
It's really awkward, but that's how the template was originally designed for whatever reason.
Because the Agile template is not intended to support Agile work. It is an agile implementation of the Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) designed by Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) for working with client engagements.
The only template that supports an agile workflow out of the box is the Scrum template.
http://nakedalm.com/agile-vs-scrum-process-templates-team-foundation-server/
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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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We are using Scrum 1.0 with TFS to manage our project. There are 2 (soon to be 3) teams who work on different Sprints at the same time. This seems to cause problems for TFS though as the Sprint Burndown charts become skewed and completely incorrect.
I have moved both teams under the same Iteration Path/Sprint and we have been differentiating them by Area. But this is not ideal.
My question is really about how other teams are using Scrum 1.0 to effectively run multiple Sprints at the same time. We would really like to have the Sprint Burndown and Velocity reports for each of the Scrum teams at the very least.
Thanks very much,
John
We were advised to use the Iteration Path to identify teams. We're using the Agile 5.0 template, but I don't think that matters. We have 8 teams, so we have the iterations set up like this:
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\Sprint 1
\Sprint 1\Team 1
...
\Sprint 1\Team 8
\Sprint 2
\Sprint 2\Team 1
...
\Sprint 2\Team 8
This is also far from ideal, but using Excel simplifies sprint planning. Each team created their own queries to see their work, and they change the query each sprint. The downside is that none of the built-in reporting works. I read the latest Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio book, but it did not provide any insight into how this could be done better.
We tried to do the same thing and ended up just using TFS as if it was one team and one sprint since that was the easiest way for all the reports to work and upper management to see the big picture easily. We created sub reports based on the teams to help drill down.
I'm sure there is a better way in TFS, maybe creating your own field in the template for a team number and modifying the reports. We were not allowed to change anything in the templates.
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We're using TFS Work Items to manage our bugs and work items.
Would that be possible to use TFS for agile scrum project management? e.g. defining user stores, drawing burn down chart and cumulative chart, etc?
How?
Thanks
Absolutely yes.
Generate a new Team Project choosing the default process template (MSF for Agile Software Development 5.0) during the Wizard execution.
Now within this new Team Project a great deal of ready-baked reports is available, 'agile' work-item type User Story as well. Out-of-the-box sprint planning is also quite nicely delivered.
With a small time-investment for orientation, customizing & tailoring to your own needs should be possible.
A very comprehensive presentation by A.Bjork was really helpful for me.
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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.