{"id":10111,"date":"2015-08-27T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2015\/08\/27\/agile-project-management-futures-august-2015\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T03:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:22:38","slug":"agile-project-management-futures-august-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/agile-project-management-futures-august-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile Project Management Futures (August 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATED:\u00a0Oct 2, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n  Last month we knocked two items off this list.\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>You can now query and view Kanban columns from the backlog, a query result, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Inline tasks now exist on Kanban boards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read about these new features here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/news\/2015-sep-18-vso\">https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/news\/2015-sep-18-vso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More is coming in the next few sprints,\u00a0stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<div>\n  &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;\n<\/div>\n<p>This post details some of the agile project management improvements coming to Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server in the next few quarters.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>New Work Item Form<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>****I&#8217;ll start with the core work item experience. We\u2019re updating work items to include a new UI that provides a better day-to-day consumption and editing experience. The new work item experience is designed to provide improved readability, more structure and organization to your data, and a better consumption experiences for all related data \u2013 history, code artifacts, etc. Below is a screenshot of what you can expect (UI not final).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/08\/1234.New20Work20Item20Form.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new work item form will be available to preview in Q3 of this year and will have incremental updates added to it throughout the quarters that follow. Those incremental updates will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A rich discussion experience, complete with @mention (people) and #id (code artifacts) intellisense.<\/li>\n<li>A new history experience with support for filtering, drill-through, and improved readability.<\/li>\n<li>Support for custom fields and work item types (see below).<\/li>\n<li>UI extensibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Custom Fields<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ability to add custom fields to your work items will be available in Q4 of this year. This marks our first milestone toward providing a complete process customization experience for Visual Studio Online. Beyond custom fields, we\u2019ll be adding support for custom work item types, custom states, custom rules, and more.\u00a0 You can read more about the investments we\u2019re making in the following blogs posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 2015 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2015\/05\/05\/visual-studio-online-process-customization.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2015\/05\/05\/visual-studio-online-process-customization.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 2015 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2015\/07\/27\/visual-studio-online-process-customization-update.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2015\/07\/27\/visual-studio-online-process-customization-update.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 2015 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2015\/08\/12\/visual-studio-online-process-customization-private-preview-or-vnext.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2015\/08\/12\/visual-studio-online-process-customization-private-preview-or-vnext.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>DONE: Kanban \u2013 Querying and Viewing Kanban Columns<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re making a set of investments to ensure that meta-data from your Kanban boards is viewable, query-able, and reportable. Today, it\u2019s very easy to customize your Kanban board, however the custom meta-data is only present on the board, and not viewable on your backlog or in other venues like query results. Going forward we\u2019ll be adding support so that three pieces of data from your Kanban boards (column, swim lane, doing\/done) are available to query on, view in your backlog, and report on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/08\/4035.Kanban20Columns.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These changes are coming in Q3 of this year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>DONE: Kanban \u2013 Tasks as a Checklist<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>****Many of you have asked for better support to add, view, and close Tasks directly from the Kanban board. Today you need to open each\u00a0card and browse the links control (which has its own set of usability issues \u2013 see new work item form above) to understand\u00a0any Tasks associated with the item. Going forward, we\u2019ll be adding support to decompose your stories directly from the boards, including lightweight interactions (editing titles, marking as done, etc).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/08\/6114.TasksOnCards.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tasks as a checklist are coming in Q3 of this year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Dashboards<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>****In the coming quarters you\u2019ll see us start to talk a lot more about a new feature in the product that we\u2019re calling \u201cdashboards\u201d.\u00a0 Dashboards are a customizable canvas where you can bring together your ALM and DevOps data.\u00a0We\u2019re starting by taking the existing home pages in the product and turning them into a completely customizable experience \u2013 giving you full control of all the data on the screen. Each piece of data shown will be wrapped in what we\u2019re calling a \u201cwidget\u201d. This will include the existing charts, tiles, and all the links that show up today.<\/p>\n<p>In parallel, we\u2019re investing in a brand new set of widgets that pull data from all parts of the product \u2013 Work, Code, Build, Test, Release. We&#8217;re starting with the widgets in the Work space, but we&#8217;ll be expanding to all areas over time. Widgets will be written as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/integrate\/extensions\/overview\">extensions<\/a>, allowing you to\u00a0write and share your own widgets. As we get started in this space we\u2019d love to hear what kinds of widgets you\u2019d like to see us invest in. If you\u2019ve got feedback here, please reach out to us at dashboard-feedback at microsoft.com.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/08\/1754.Dashboards.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dashboards will show up inside Visual Studio Online during Q4 of this year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Kanban Metrics<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>****Earlier this year I talked about adding Kanban metrics that make understanding things like lead and cycle time \u00a0more natural and integrated the the product. We postponed this work a bit and are bundling it now with the dashboards work I described above.\u00a0 Kanban metrics will be available in Q1 of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to offer thoughts and suggestions into the comments of this post.\u00a0 You can also reach me on twitter &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronbjork\">@aaronbjork<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<br \/>\nAaron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED:\u00a0Oct 2, 2015 Last month we knocked two items off this list.\u00a0 You can now query and view Kanban columns from the backlog, a query result, etc. Inline tasks now exist on Kanban boards. You can read about these new features here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/news\/2015-sep-18-vso More is coming in the next few sprints,\u00a0stay tuned&#8230; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,253,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agile","category-azure-devops-server","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>UPDATED:\u00a0Oct 2, 2015 Last month we knocked two items off this list.\u00a0 You can now query and view Kanban columns from the backlog, a query result, etc. Inline tasks now exist on Kanban boards. 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