Story Boarding - TFS 2012

1. Click Storyboarding tab on the PowerPoint ribbon.
2. Create a new slide with your desired layout.
3. Open Storyboard Shapes and start dragging and dropping shapes onto your storyboard.

 

TFS - Continuous actionable Feedback

In any project, it is very crucial to understand and capture requirements from users, which can then be implemented. With new Visual Studio 2012, it has set of very handy tools to rapidly storyboard your requirements, and - as your software evolves - get rich, actionable feedback from users and need necessary changes / modifications. In the past, one need to use some third party tools to do these tasks. Now, it is all build in part of the TFS itself.

 

Manage your workitems via KANBAN Board!

Kanban board is a visual project management tool to visualize the work items, plan, prioritize and monitor the current velocity. Obviously if you visualize the work items as below, it will give more clarity and easy to maintain/ manage the work items. It will clearly give you who is working on what, what is the status of each work items, ensuring limited items assigned, work in progress, how much we completed etc. It is not only help in understanding the current status of work items and also control/manage the work flow meaning you can simply drap and drop from one section to another. The real value is all these productive tools part of Team Foundation Service / TFS 2012.

With Kanban board, you can easily track your work item progress on the task board with real-time capacity charting. You can easily drag n’ drop as needed. I can't wait how this tool going to evolve in the upcoming updates!

 

For more information:

https://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/learn/collaborate/view-your-kanban-board/

Check this Channel 9 video:

 

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer can be used as a standalone rich client for accessing Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server. It enables users to join the software development life cycle with integrated support for source control, work item tracking, build management, and detailed reports showing bug trends, project velocity and quality indicators.
You can download the same :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0ED12659-3D41-4420-BBB0-A46E51BFCA86&displaylang=en

Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool

Team System Web Access (formerly known as TeamPlain) is a Web interface to Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server.
What are the cool Features?
NEW: Direct links to work items, query results, diffs, change sets and more
NEW: Display custom controls on work item forms
NEW: View queued builds new, queue new builds
Add new work items or edit existing ones
Work with any type of work item, including custom ones
Add new work item queries or edit existing ones
View, download, upload, check-in and check-out documents on SharePoint team portal
View reports, export as PDF or Excel
Browse source control repositories, download files, view changesets, diffs, histories, and annotated views
View build results, start or stop builds
Search for keywords in work items

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools - October 2008 Release Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool
Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio Team System 2008
Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer
Related Resources
Brian Harry's Blog
Buck Hodges' Blog
Hakan Eskici's Blog
Forum - Team Foundation Server - Team System Web Access

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