TFS and developer time management

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

SalamElias - 08 Feb 2007 19:49 GMT

Hi,
TFS (work item) is a very interesting tool to manage project subjects. I
aqmwondering if it is possible to manage periode of time a developer spent on
each bug fixe issue.something like start date, %completed, end date.
I tried importing a workitem list in MS project sheet, I ahd the possibility
to change number of days but was not allowed to change start and end date in
Project sheet.
Anyway, I published the list, turned to VS IDE, refereshed the list, nothing
new was added.
I would highly appreciate if you can point me to Any doc/features or add ons
that allow me to manage time passed on each task.
Thanks in advance

Reply to this Message

WenYuan Wang - 09 Feb 2007 10:09 GMT

Hi,

According to your description, I understand you wan to know whether or not
there is a way to log worked time for each work-item. Please don't hesitate
to correct me if I misunderstand anything here.

I'm afraid this feature is not built-in. But I have searched on the
internet and noticed there are few options maybe helpful for you.
Below this a reply in MSDN Newsgoup.
=============================
There is no built-in mechanism for this purpose, but there are few options:
- Using custom links to store this information - one link per logged time
- Using a longtext field in workitem to store this one-to-many data in xml
format. Optionally using a custom control can give a rich UI to edit/view
such information.

In either case, the reporting isn't clean and needs work. In future
versions we will have much better linking story to store such data and do
rich queries.

Naren Datha - MSFT
=============================
For detailed information, please read the flowing article.
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1136699&SiteID=1

Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Wen Yuan

Reply to this Message

SalamElias - 09 Feb 2007 14:04 GMT

Yes, you are correct. I find work item is avery handy concept inside VS,
however, one of the main issues that a project/team manager needs know is how
much time is spent in developing /correcting a bug or maintenance. I don't
understand such wonderfull tool , based on ITIL and MOF methodology can miss
this central point. Even no relations with MS project.
Hope will be added in the near future. So many thanks for the response

> Hi,
>
[quoted text clipped - 24 lines]
> Sincerely,
> Wen Yuan

Reply to this Message

WenYuan Wang - 12 Feb 2007 03:26 GMT

Many thanks for your reply. You are welcome ;)

Additional, you may send feedback to our product team if you have concern
on it:
http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=210
We appreciate for any suggestion from our customer.

If there is anything we can help with, please feel free to contact me.
I'm very glad to assist you.

Have a great day!
Wen Yuan

Reply to this Message

TFS and developer time management

Free Magazines