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Assign work to QA team using Scrum template in TFS
Scrum itself doesn't really define how you're supposed to communicate within the Team. If just non-formally informing QA works for you, great. If not, look into a tool to do it. An important point, ...
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How can I see busyness of team members?
TL;DR
Your question is tagged with scrum. Therefore, the answer should be based on Scrum, not the tool you're choosing to use, which in this case is tfs.
You can fix your process problems by:
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Scrum - Is a good practice to set the remaining work of a Sub-task?
Some teams, especially those that are new to Scrum, use a combination of story points and task hours.
The story points set the capacity of the sprint, but the task hours allow the team to do several ...
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Burn Down Chart : What is the definition of work done in Scrum
What is the definition of work done in Scrum
Work that satisfies the Definition of Done, which is defined by the Team.
The problem with this is that work being closed on a daily basis is not shown ...
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Engaging remote team members in sprint planning
Have you tried using Trello for this? Although we don't have any "permanent" remote workers, we do have several members of the team who work away from the office for months at a time. We have the "...
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Should all backlog items exist inside a feature?
Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
Ask why is is necessary to use this extra level of hierarchy. If the benefit can be defined, then the answer to your ...
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TFS and customer requirements
Hm... This is tough. In my experience it is not useful to put customer requirements directly into TFS as work items of any sort, especially if they are in the form of "20 long sentences". What I ...
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How to use TFS 2015 Agile template artifacts in practice?
User Stories
Anyone can create user stories but only the Product Owner can prioritise them. It's also everyone's job to hel refine them to action.
Tracking what's in a release
A single status field on ...
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TFS: Projects, Portfolio Management, and Source Code
I am not sure what you lose in a single Team Project?
You are either using TFVC which allows you to secure at the folder level, and remove inheritance for greater control.
Or you are using Git which ...
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Consulting and separating internal and external tickets
It sounds like you lack transparency and trust with the customer. If each Story represents value for the customer then the customer should approve, view, and order those things.
That said, you can ...
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Scrum - Is a good practice to set the remaining work of a Sub-task?
Using the "remaining work" field is not a problem as long as you don't mix it with story points. IMO, both are not compatible to one another. Nevertheless, there's still a possibility of using both at ...
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Using MS project for overview with TFS to control the details of a mechanical development project
If you are looking to forecast sprints as part of Scrum then i would avoid the user of MS Project at all costs.
You would be better served looking at a Release Burndown or just simply projecting ...
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How to complete Sprint and move to next Sprint in TFS Online
You have to set the iteration dates. Once you've applied dates to the iterations, the Current iteration is based on today's date.
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Organizing testing in a Scrum(ish) development project
There is nothing scum(ish) about this project
Team members are not involved in deciding what can be accomplished in the sprint. No sprint planning. It is top-down.
No coordination among team members ...
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How to add Definition of Done (DoD) in TFS 2015 Scrum methodology?
Let me preface this by saying I've never used TFS, but the functionality that you're describing seems logical to me based on what a Definition of Done is.
A Definition of Done is something that ...
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Time estimates and epics as releases
I like @sarov's answer, and just wanted to add some TFS related bumph in realted to the Scrum bumph, maybe with a little extra Scrum bumph.
Investors require dates of high level estimates for ...
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See TFS Scrum Tools using only PBI and Bugs only?
It seems like your TFS project is using the "Scrum" process template.
You could create another project (or modify the current one - which is harder depending on the TFS version that you have) and use ...
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Time estimates and epics as releases
Investors require dates high level estimates for certain milestones. For example, when should we expect a MVP (minimum viable product) to be ready.
It might be too early to say ... are you the scrum ...
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Azure Board (DevOps) Reports
There are a variety of OOB charts in Azure DevOps. Some simple ones can be viewed under "Charts" after you run a query for your current sprint. (I don't know why they don't display in the Sprint view):...
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At what Work Item level does the Product Owner prioritize in TFS?
I think there may be some confusion between what is a feature, what is a story and what is a task.
Using your example, I would expect something like this...
The Product Owner is working on the search ...
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Questions about moving from JIRA to VSTS Agile
There are couple of docs I'd recommend you read:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/work-items/guidance/agile-process
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/work-...
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What work items would look like related to support for a solution in production already?
You haven't said how long your sprint is, and with only a couple tasks the burndown chart is not going to give you or the stakeholders a lot of information. If you can do this in a couple days as a ...
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In VSTS, get the hours logged by an individual for each day in the sprint
There is no default widget or feature in the product and only the CMMI template has enough fidelity data to get something even close to the data you're after.
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How requirements are handled in TFS with Scrum template
I'm not intimately familiar with TFS, but in Scrum terminology, a requirement is one thing that may be a Product Backlog Item.
Consider the following from the Scrum Guide:
The Product Backlog ...
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Time estimates and epics as releases
Investors require dates of high level estimates for certain milestones.
This isn't really in the spirit of Scrum... more Waterfall. Still, it's not like you can just say "Sorry, investors, no initial ...
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Organizing testing in a Scrum(ish) development project
My project is also in active agile development of a newly released product.
The primary purpose of my tests is to ensure that we don't accidentally break something that we have already delivered, so ...
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TFS Work Item Customization for Deliverable Tracking
I wouldn't specialize the customization of TFS to this level. Even the pretty detailed CMMI template doesn't detail out to this level.
You can match any deliverable to a Product Backlog Item in scrum ...
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Should all backlog items exist inside a feature?
Are you at a high-enough level in the organization, or is your project big enough, to warrant the use of features? If features help you track and deliver work better, use them. But if they just add ...
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Scrum Task Board Customization in TFS 2015
As far as I know you can't update the columns on the task board. Just the Product Backlog board. The link below has a part where it mentions what customization you can do but it never mentions ...
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Scrum Task Board Customization in TFS 2015
More of an alternative than a direct answer, but - does your whole Team all work in the same place? (And if not, is it possible to change it so they do? The Team really should, ideally, be co-located.)...
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