We use TFS online all the time. We had noticed that StackRank column is also missing from some of the forms. While you can include it to see what the values are, you will find these values change as TFS online uses that field now for internal ordering of backlog items.
Quite painful for us since we use a customised version of scrum where we actively attributed values to stack rank to assist in prioritisation of a huge backlog at various phases. One might argue we should not have a huge backlog but in our instance, this is not practical at all as stack rank was one of the few common fields with bugs and stories. At any rate, we have had to accommodate it by using the backlog ordering feature and a separate area for defects/bugs. The removal of stackrank has forced us to cleanup our backlog which is a good thing but we still need to retain a fair bit so it has caused us more administrivia pain. I often find that scrum/agile practices tend to work best in greenfields projects and the strictness that is advocated causes more friction for no gain in much longer running projects (Note: I am a scrum/agile advocate but I tend to customise each to suite the environment/team/needs). I believe you can still access it if you use something like Excel to do your work item management but you are fighting the system and I would guess there may be times when that value gets overwritten internally by TFS online so it is a risky proposition. - Glav From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Preet Sangha Sent: Tuesday, 8 July 2014 3:45 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Any one here using the Visual Studio Online (TFS in the cloud)? Thanks David. Will contact Grant directly. On 8 July 2014 17:09, David Kean <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Grant says: Can you have them contact me directly with their accountname.visualstudio.com <http://accountname.visualstudio.com> ? There was an issue on Friday regarding backlog columns, we may have regressed something in some cases. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsoservice/archive/2014/07/03/issues-with-visual-studio-online-work-item-backlog-management-2-7-investigating.aspx From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 9:43 PM To: ozDotNet; Grant Holliday Subject: RE: Any one here using the Visual Studio Online (TFS in the cloud)? Grant? From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Preet Sangha Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 6:18 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Any one here using the Visual Studio Online (TFS in the cloud)? This morning all of us who logged into TFS (as opposed to were already logged in on sleeping machines) have had Stack Rank removed from the Task Work Item template. Cloud TFS doesn't allow changes to the WIT as you can with an in house TFS server so I was wondering if any of the MS people here know if there was a change to TFS that could have made this happen for us, or is there something we need to specially to fix this? It's not critical at the moment but I'm sure if is affects us it will affect a bazillion other people. Thanks. -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland
