We have started our new sprint and in burndown trend ( Azure Devops ) we can not see remaing work in the graph.
At the same time in capacity tab, we can see efforts have been planned for the current iteration.
Are we missing anything.
UPDATE 1
Burn down is based on sum of remaining work and every task has value associated with it. In following image you can see remaining work is 106. But still its not reflected in graph.
Note that on the first day of the sprint there's nothing to burndown. If you hover your mouse over to the far left of the chart, it will highlight the work items that will burndown.
There's also a few different options for the chart. Click through the View the full report to see:
Which backlog are you burning down -- Tasks or Stories? or individual work items?
What are you burning down? Count of work items, Sum of completed work or remaining work?
Note, if you're burning down remaining work your tasks will need remaining work filled out to be useful.
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I'm building a query in ADO and trying to get list of all of the improvement work items with a tag from the last three sprints. Ideally, I want to use this on a dashboard so need it to roll N-3. All the variables I've tried brings back all work items from the last three sprints or nothing. Has anyone else faced a similar issue.
ADO Query
You need to group the clauses. Tick all 3 checkboxes next to Or's for Iteration Path (green in the image below), then click the icon next to And/Or (blue in the image below)
I am trying to come up with n Azure Board query to return the work I have performed during current sprint - which I am vaguely defining as:
Work In Current Sprint = [A] + [B]
where
A = work items where I completed development stage (or was decided at some point work is irrelevant) and
B = work items I created in current sprint, not necessarily assign to me nor my team (I spent time investigating an issue, and ended up, for instance, finding a bug, so I want this included in this "report").
The closest I could get is the query blow. Problem is it is still not quite accurate, since with regards to items I created during this sprint - I could not find a way to filter created items in this sprint only - results are showing up work items that CURRENTLY BELONG to current sprint, but not necessarily created in current sprint. The only way I see I can achieve what I want is using CreatedBy - but this only provides a "hardcoded" date range offset, at any given time. If I use an offset of 14 days backwards, running query at the last day of the sprint (considering a 2 week sprint duration) should work, but running the query at any day before that, during the sprint, will return stuff created in previous sprints.
I want this query to help me track "work I have performed during current sprint" (as defined above) at any given day within the sprint.
Any better ideas ?
You could use custom date in 'create date' to limit the work item.
And I notice you use 'work items and direct links', then you need set filters for 'Filters for linked work items' part(as you needed, like iteration path etc.). Otherwise it may return linked work item that belong to other iterations, according to the filled filter, like something belows:
I hope it could help.
We've come across a number of issues with our Azure DevOps projects and are trying to surface relevant information to the management team with queries and dashboards on projects. Mainly it's just been counting the number of results for particular queries, e.g. when a status hasn't changed in 30 days, number of blocked items, total items in current sprint etc.
What we've been asked for though is to be able to rollup the original estimate total for all work items, and also roll up the completed work as another value. The queries and other things I've seen only seem to be able to count, rather than sum up, but some of the widgets I've seen do appear to sum things for graphs (but I'm just looking for the values).
Can anyone suggest anything?
I imagine that you have two different options here. The first being is that you could leverage the new roll-up columns and aggregate some of this information on the backlog view. Some of this makes assumptions about how you are grouping and the hierarchy of your work items.
Add a rollup column
In the Column options dialog, choose Add a rollup column, select From quick list, and then choose from one of the options listed.
Choose from the menu provided.
Progress bar displays progress bars based on the percentage of associated descendant work items which have been completed or closed.
Total number displays the sum of descendant items or the associated fields of descendant items. Totals provide a measure of the
size of a Feature or Epic based on the number of its child items. For
example, Count of Tasks shows the sum of all tasks that are linked
to parent items. The active or closed state is ignored. Rollup column
menu
Remaining Work of Tasks shows the sum of Remaining Work of tasks that are linked to the parent item.
If you wanted to instead see the summarized details on a dashboard, I'd recommend downloading the Query Tile PRO marketplace extension. Let's say you had a query already defined:
The options support sums based on query fields:
And so you have the tile with the summation value you are wanting. Just replace with other fields that you might need.
I'd like for the community to help me resolve a disagreement I have with a team mate about moving tasks on the sprint board from "In Progress" to "Done."
Does one need to reduce the remaining hours to zero before moving the task to "Done"? Or is it recommended to keep the hour estimate on each task as it is, before moving the card over to the right?
A quick demo of both approaches: https://share.getcloudapp.com/nOuN42y8
VSTS ticket clipping
Does one need to reduce the remaining hours to zero before moving the
task to "Done"? Or is it recommended to keep the hour estimate on each
task as it is, before moving the card over to the right?
Just personal opinion, I think one member should reduce the remaining hours to zero before moving the task to "Done" if the task is really done!
Please check Update remaining work:
Updating Remaining Work, preferably prior to the daily Scrum meeting, helps the team stay informed of the progress being made. It also ensures a smoother burndown chart.
Each team member can review the tasks they've worked on and estimate the work remaining. If they've discovered that it's taking longer than expected to complete, they should increase the remaining work for the task. Remaining Work should always reflect exactly how much work the team member estimates is remaining to complete the task.
So it's officially recommended to update the work remaining if the work is nearly done. Then the Team manager can manage members' work load accurately!
I'm looking to create a query that shows all of the stories that were added to the sprint during our sprint planning meeting. This meeting always takes place on day 1 of the sprint.
Naturally, some stories may be removed mid-sprint but I'd still like to see what was originally planned.
Equally, some stories may be added mid-sprint and I wouldn't want to include those.
I noticed that the built-in Velocity widget has a 'planned' bar, but I'm not entirely sure how that's calculated.
For this issue ,deleted work items cannot be displayed with other work items in queries. If you want to query the stories created by a certain period of time, you can do it in two steps.
First you can query the stories created in the initial time period by the following conditions.
Then you can add the Created Date and Iteration Path column in Recycle Bin to find the stories deleted in this time period.
If your stories are permanently deleted(Remove from Recycle Bin), then you will really cannot query them.