I have looked at various articles and can see how to add columns to story boards, however we are working in sprints using the task boards and I cannot find any way of adding another column to the task board. Could someone please help me?
Go to the admin for your project. Click the "Process" that you're currently using. Find "Task" in the "Work Item Types" tab. Click the "States" tab and add a new State. This new state will appear as a column on the task board.
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I just created a list of work items, under a project in Azure DevOps: 1 epic and 3 features (these 3 are child linked to the epic).
But when I go to the backlogs to see these items, they are not shown. I get the following message:
I tried a couple of solutions that I found on the web, but they do not work.
Please help me to figure out why these are not being shown in the backlog... (of course I'm new at Azure DevOps).
Thanks!
From the screenshot, I can see that only epic and feature:
You need to select epic or feature type in this place:
Create Tasks under the User Story.
Epic ---> Features---> User Story --->Tasks. So then in the backlog top right corner when you select Epic, Features, User Story, Tasks will appear. When you select the Feature, User Story, Tasks will appear. When you select the User Story, Tasks will appear.
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I found the answer by going through the different buttons on the screen:
Go to Configure Team Settings (when selected a box will be displayed)
Be sure that in the Backlog section all items are selected (in my case they weren´t)
Be sure that all of the work items in different levels are shown by clicking on the + symbol. (the - symbol will hide them).
And that is it!
I set up my first AzureDevops organisation by starting with the Agile process but later changed it to CMMI for the organisation to better align with the other projects my team works on. I think this is where the cause of the problem is but can't figure out how to address it.
PROBLEM:
I cannot see in the backlogs any of the Epics I created. The Epic selector in the dropdown menu of the backlog navigation is present and selected. Some of the Features can be seen in the Features backlog, however, not all.
WHAT I TRIED TO DO:
I created a query from the Epics backlog and tried changing its filters and got to see all the epics if I change the filter from having several OR statements on the Area Path filter to one with Area Path Under "top level area path".
I am 100% sure this is because I changed the process. Would appreciate if someone could please let me know some troubleshooting steps to address the issue?
Thank you
On the Azure DevOps TaskBoard for a sprint, it would appear that the only thing I can drag across the board is Tasks. Not bugs. Not Backlog items. Which means if I want to see where a bug is on the board, I have to create a task for it. (Note: My project uses Scrum. Bugs are managed with requirements)
I guess this makes sense. It is a "Task board" after all. But this seems tedious. Most of the time, the bug is the task. I make a bug, make a check in, and mark it done. I would expect to be able to drag the bug itself across the board to mark it done.
And even if I go to the trouble for creating a task for a bug (or a Backlog Item) and then I drag the task across the task board to "Done", the bug's status still stays where it was. It doesn't change to not done. I then have to go to the bug and manually mark it as "Done"
This really limits the usefulness of the Taskboard for our planning.
Am I missing something? Is there way to change this?
You can choose to manage the Bugs with tasks as Daniel commented. And You can use extension Work item form one click actions to assign the Bug to some parent PBI automatically. See below example:
First you need to install Work item form one click actions extension to your Organization.
Then Go to project setting page-->WIT One Click Actions under Extensions-->Bugs-->Create rule group-->New Rule
Triggers: New work item load
Actions: Link to an existing work item(relation type: Parent; Work Item id: Id of PBI)
After above rule is created. The newly created bugs will be automatically added to the parent PBI you specified in above rule.
However, The PBI and Bugs(managed with requirements) can be moved around in Boards. So you can use the filter to view your work items in a specific sprint.
I have multiple projects that me and my development team are working on at the same time.
I have all teams projects task backlogs at
https://{vstsName}.visualstudio.com/{projectOne}/_backlogs/iteration/Iteration%201
https://{vstsName}.visualstudio.com/{projectTwo}/_backlogs/iteration/Iteration%201
I want to see every backlog at once and can't find a way to view them all at once.
I have tried the Delivery Plans plug in, but this didn't seem to give what I want.
I want to view all tasks and be able to make them active, and possible to see all burn downs at once.
In "Work > Queries > New > New Query" there is a checkbox in the top right of the query editor called "Query across projects". If you check this checkbox then work items from all projects will be included in the query results.
Is it possible to do such a thing? I couldn't find any settings about the topic question. I've pointed out the columns I mean in the following pic:
Also, I selected Scrum for the development process.
Thanks.
It is a very common ask to be able to modify the columns of the task board just like you can do on the Kanban board. We have it on our list to add to the product, but we don't have any ETA yet.
It is also tracked by the user voice item Customize the columns on the Task Board