March 2011
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
18h 48m
English
book
Professional Team Foundation Server 2010
by Ed Blankenship, Martin Woodward, Grant Holliday, Brian Keller
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Chapter 11. Introducing Work Item Tracking
WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?
Getting to know the additions and enhancements to project management capabilities in Team Foundation Server 2010
Understanding work items and process templates
Managing and querying work items
In Part II, you learned about the support that Team Foundation Server 2010 has for source control. In Part III, you will learn about how Team Foundation Server 2010 helps with project management.
Project management can involve many aspects of developing software, such as tracking remaining work and open bugs, determining how much work you can commit to with your available resources, and even helping to enforce a standard process of interaction between your team members. You will see that Team Foundation Server 2010 provides capabilities to help you achieve all of these things, and more.
In this chapter, you will start by learning about the enhancements to project management available in this release. This chapter also provides an overview of work item tracking, including some ways to manage and query work items from Visual Studio, Excel, Project, and other clients. You will also learn about the importance of process templates, including an overview of the process templates provided by Microsoft for use with Team Foundation Server 2010.
In subsequent chapters, Part III will also familiarize you with process template customization (Chapter 12) and provide an in-depth look at using reporting and SharePoint dashboards to get real-time ...
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