TFS Work Item Manager & TFS Project Dashboard in a Nutshell
Inspired by agile development methodologies, these two free applications have been designed to make working with Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server faster and easier. By promoting robust yet flexible project management practices, TFS Work Item Manager Beta and TFS Project Dashboard Beta allow for rapid delivery of high-quality software. Both tools have been used extensively internally at Telerik and Imaginet for over six months with great results. The applications have been built by Imaginet Resources using RadControls for WPF and are available for free download.
How Does TFS Work Item Manager Add Greater Value?
If you are using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to manage your work items, you’ll simply love this tool! TFS Work Item Manager provides a unified platform to support those of you who want to take advantage of the Team Foundation Server without the need to switch from MS Team Explorer to MS Excel, to MS Project to find a certain work item. Its seamless integration with TFS allows you to add and edit work items, or save queries in real-time, along with the advantage of better work item visualization and improved team collaboration. The TFS Work Item Manager helps free up more developer time to actually write code, not manage what development teams have to do.
TFS Project Dashboard – Dynamic Visualization of Your Project
TFS Project Dashboard is a unique stand alone console that connects to your Team Foundation Server and pulls workload data directly from there to be displayed as various widgets. The application shows all important indicators in real time at a glance – build history, recent check-ins, assigned tasks, bug history, and more. The instant and accurate reports allow for improved accountability of personal tasks, workloads and release schedules. The TFS Project Dashboard can be configured to support any TFS process template and includes out of the box support for the following templates: CMMI® Process Improvement, MSF for Agile Software Development or Agile Software Development with Scrum.