Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

Assigning a license, adding users, and auditing user access

A Scrum Team consists of a product owner, a development Team, and a Scrum master. While your stakeholders aren't part of the Scrum Team, they will need visibility into the product backlog. The Scrum Team is cross-functional and will have the skills to cover design, development, testing, and deployment of the increment. From a tooling point of view, not everyone in the Team may need the same access to TFS.

TFS offers three access levels: Stakeholder, Basic, and Advanced. The TFS license required for the access levels is listed here:

Access level	License required
Stakeholder	No license required.
Basic	TFS client-access license (CAL) or Visual Studio Professional with MSDN subscription. ...