Professional Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2010

8

Running a Release

WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?

• Creating releases.
• Developing the product backlog: user stories and tasks.
• Entering the product backlog.
• Ensuring product backlog and user story success.
• Linking PBIs and tasks.
• Understanding user story reports.

In Chapter 7, you learned about tracking quality in Team Foundation Server (TFS). In this chapter, you will learn how to create a release in TFS. One of the main activities involved in creating a release is entering product backlog items (PBIs) in the product backlog. The chapter provides detailed examples, with screenshots of how to enter PBIs using TFS, the web portal, and Excel. In addition, this chapter contains a list of success and failure patterns for your product backlog and user stories as well as a description of how to link PBIs and tasks, and a discussion of the PBI reports that are available in TFS.

CREATING A RELEASE

Simply creating a team project creates several releases. However, you sometimes need to create additional releases or modify existing releases; in such cases, you can use the process described here. To create a new release in TFS, follow these steps:

1. Right-click the project in Visual Studio's Team Explorer and select Team Project Settings Areas and Iterations, as shown in Figure 8-1. The Areas and Iterations dialog appears.

   FIGURE 8-1: Creating a new release in Visual Studio.

2. Click the Iteration tab ...