Managing your work

Whether you work in a team or as an independent developer, the odds will be high that you will have a list of requirements describing what you need to build. Scrum teams use product backlogs, traditional teams use functional specifications, and other teams will have their own variations of these. Even as an independent developer, you probably maintain at minimum a to-do list of features to add and bugs to fix. Using TFS, this information can be stored as the various work item types in the team project.

In this recipe, we'll show you how to manage your work using Visual Studio 2013 and TFS.

Getting ready

You will need to have access to a TFS project, like the sample one created in the Creating a new TFS project recipe, or another one that you have access to.

The recipe also requires that your team project be based on the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2013 process template. If your project uses a different process template, the work item types may be different from those in...