Agile Project Management for Teams Using Microsoft TFS

TeamPulse offers a unique two-way synchronization of user stories, tasks and problems with Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS). This way teams that use TFS will be able to leverage TeamPulse’s powerful project management capabilities and intuitive UI to better visualize work and improve tracking, planning and collaboration.

Capture Customer Feedback

The TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback portal extension offers a simple and cost-effective solution for capturing customer feedback in TFS projects. It can be easily exposed to external stakeholders like users, clients or other team departments and allow them to submit feedback, as well as vote and comment on it. Then your team can easily triage and manage that feedback in TeamPulse and turn it into requirements or bugs that can be pushed to TFS.

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Track and Report Progress

By synchronizing your TFS projects with TeamPulse you will be able to use the tools powerful real-time tracking capabilities during the full development cycle. By always having up-to-date reports on the project’s health and progress you will be able to easily spot problems and take corrective action as well as analyze historical data.

In addition TeamPulse also allows users to generate and export reports for key performance metrics like velocity, task burndowns, as well as planned versus actual reports.

Plan Work

TeamPulse can be used as a requirements gathering, backlog management, and project planning sandbox. This will allow development managers and product owners to plan incrementally without impacting data within Team Foundation Server. When plans and requirements are matured and prioritized, development managers can push this new information into Team Foundation Server to allow engineering efforts to commence.

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Visualize and Manage Your Work

TeamPulse offers a virtual task board for managing all your current tasks in a highly intuitive and visual way. Using My TaskBoard you can update, add, edit and delete tasks on the spot without having to go into TFS. With My TaskBoard you can get a clear and focused view of your progress and see what you have to work on next.

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Start Working Before Having a TFS Project

TeamPulse is designed to be used throughout the whole development cycle. With TeamPulse you can start by capturing ideas and feedback from internal as well as external users in your TeamPulse project without the need to have a TFS one ready. As you start the project, you may spend the first iterations working on the production of an initial product backlog without the need to go to Team Foundation Server. As development progresses, TeamPulse can selectively synchronize TeamPulse data with Team Foundation Work Items, Areas, and Iterations.

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Setting up the Integration with TFS

Click-Click-Click-Done.

This is how we refer to the new Import Project from TFS wizard.

It provides users with an unmatched syncing experience where they can import Areas and Iterations from TFS, map the TeamPulse entity types to TFS work item types, configure field mappings between TeamPulse and TFS, set the Default Values and Value Mappings.