Organizing your work via work items

Work items are used to plan, assign, track, and more generally speaking, organize your work during a software development project. They help to better understand what needs to be done and give insights on the status of your project.

Some common work item usages are:

  • Create, prioritize, and track user stories for application features
  • Create and track development tasks necessary to implement user stories
  • Create, prioritize, and track application bugs
  • Determine application quality and application release dates
  • Display progress of user stories, tasks, and bugs in a single Kanban board

As you have seen before, you can choose the work item process during VSTS project creation. This choice defines the standard ...

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