I can't work out how to report how many hours per week were recorded by each team member.
For example if a task is 20 hrs, and 10 hours was done last week, and 10 this week, how can I tell how meany hours were recorded against the task each week?
I saw some time tracker plugins, they are not what I'm talking about. They require that the user start and stop time tracking kind of like upwork.
The developers already enter completed hours as they progress the tasks. So if devops remember the dates of each entry then I should be able to query how many hours were added this week, or month, or whatever per user per task.
Here is an excerpt from a discussion we had about it:
Meh, as far as Im concerned:
I make the tasks in notepad usually, so someone can add them to devops.
Someone adds them to develops.
The developers receive them in devops and record their status and times as they develop.
Devops doesnt seem to report on weekly times to us, so we ask the developers to write everything down in notepad or doc and pass us a
list or what they did with times.
We get the developers lists and use them to report to mgmt.
SO
What is the point of steps 2 and 3? May as well just pass the guys
their task in plain test list as I make it in notepad, it will be
easier for them to add their times and pass it back. For us devops is
just extra unwanted work while ever we cant work out how to report on
developer hours.
I think, you can use several ways:
Way 1. Use PowerBi reporting.
Each developer updates work hours every day.
You can use Analytics view to get task history:
Add Completed work to this view.
Connect to Analytics with Power BI Data Connector. Then you can find revisions for each tasks and calculate hour difference
Way 2. Customize your process template.
Add to your process template new work item type (like Time or Activity). Add to these work items new field (like Activity date) or use existing field Target Date. Add to these work items the Completed Work field. Add a custom work item type, Add a custom field to a work item type.
You developers add a new Time work item as child work item to their task and update the Completed Work field. You can use work item queries to see time updates.
TimeTracking in Azure Devops is pain. We have developed our custom solution to track time in DevOps. You can install extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Sense4code.Sense4code-Manday. For more info you can visit also https://www.manday.io/doc/azure-devops-getting-started for more info.
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I am trying to recreate my own tfs with similar features. The additional fields for an item are Effort(hours).
Is this an addon or does this require change in flow via visual studio? I think I have an idea but I forgot how is technology to edit TFS called and where in visual studio?
The Effort(hours) in Task work item type is existing in AGILE and CMMI process Template. If you use Scrum template, you can change to the Agile template for your project.
You can use Burndown in tasks if you want to track how much work remains in a sprint backlog, understand how quickly your team has completed tasks, and predict when your team will achieve the goal or goals of the sprint.
We simply use number of tasks for our burndown measure. Usually you do something like actual hours or ideal hours, but this was good enough for us and apparently interesting enough to need some clarification.
There is a user voice about using the effort estimates work in the Scrum TFS template for your reference (The response from TFS Product Group):
The “Effort” field on the Product Backlog Item is meant to be any unit
the team decides they want to use. Some teams use “Story Points”. Some
use “Ideal Days”.
The Remaining Work field on the Task, is the same think. It is
whatever the team decides it to be. The only thing our tools expect is
that it is reduced as you work on it, so we can provide a burn-down.
If what you are looking for is a way to capture the original estimate
(complexity) of the task, then you’ll need to update the Task work
item type definition and add that custom field yourself.
If you need to custom field, please refer to Add or modify a field for details.
And this thread for your reference: Scrum - When do you Estimate the Effort for Product Backlog Items?
Besides, you can also try the Addons : eg TFS Time Tracker
I am required to put in a certain number of hours into TFS for my work items daily.
Currently, I have the following query which shows all the items I worked on during the day:
Is it possible to aggregate all the hours worked TODAY on all tasks. For example, if you go to the ALL CHANGES section of a specific item, you will see details on hours:
Is it possible to aggregate all the hours worked TODAY on all tasks?.
You can make a chart, and select SUM from values section.
ALL CHANGES section is the history of a single work item. There is not a default way to sum the completed work column in TFS. As an alternative, you can export the query to Excel, and sum the completed work column in Excel.
You have two options. One is simpler than the other. As Cece pointed out you can export your query to excel and do the math with excel. In visual studio you can right click on the query and say export to excel. I'm not sure off the top of my head if you can do it in the web interface been awhile since i worked with it. There is another programmatic way to do it but you need access to edit work items as well as installing 3rd party software on the server your TFS instance is installed. Although if you are using the Microsoft hosted version you might be able to install an extension to do this.
I am working on scrum with VSTS(Visual Studio Team Services)
I am able to add estimated effort to backlog items as well as estimated hours to different tasks.
I was wondering if there is a way that allows me to add the actual time taken to finish a specific task. So that I can later have a report or so to see the difference between estimation and actual in order to enhance the team estimation.
Not in the SCRUM Template. That template is all about remaining time. I believe the AGILE Template will let you enter original estimate, remaining time and time spent. So perhaps look into that.
Failing that, you could use an add-on. Have a browse of the Visual Studio Marketplace
This one looks like it might work for you: TFS Time Tracker
Completed Work field is only available for the Agile Template. I believe you can still create a custom template to be able to configure fields in the default template (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/work/process/customize-process-field#add-field).
However, VSTS is probably not intended for time tracking. You can try and use time sheet extensions to VSTS.
For example, TFS timesheet (https://www.teamexpand.com/product/tfs-timesheet) allows inputting hours directly from a Work Item tab and generate detailed reports that show how many hours were spent to complete a task with a day-by-day breakdown. It also allows to keep track of actual time vs. estimated time.
Is there a way to create a custom reporting system under the Phrequent section in Phabricator?
In the Maniphest app there is a report feature. However, it only counts total number of task by person or project. My organization still requires total time spent on a project and task.
Inside Phrequent you can already sort by user, however, I need one step further total time spent on a task by user or project. Currently it requires a manual process of totaling each time entry per task by hand.
This is not "yet" a feature and there is no implemented way of doing it right now.
Phrequent is still in its early stage of development and a lot of work remains on it.
The tracking per project is definitely a must feature and is being logged here:
https://secure.phabricator.com/T4853
Finally, the current focus for Phabricator right now seems to be the CI part (Harbormaster and Drydock) so the roadmap does not mention incoming work in the short term:
https://secure.phabricator.com/w/roadmap/
but only in the long term:
https://secure.phabricator.com/w/starmap/
On a side note, I considered using phrequent but I believe it's too far from being production ready right now so using other time tracking system seems to be the only viable solution.
If a user checks out a file and fails to check it back in after a certain number of days, I'd like TFS 2010 to generate an e-mail. (For example, the user would be notified after the item has been checked out for 1 day, and the entire team notified after 2 days.)
I found the article about writing TFS server plugins
but I was wondering if there is a simpler way.
The problem is, that notifications/alerts are event triggered in TFS. So if nothing changes there will be no trigger.
A little bit easier than writing your own plugin, which also requires a trigger, but can check for more than the changed item, a small application would be easier. A small command line tool is enough and you could run it by using scheduled tasks once a day. The tool would check for all pending changes and how long they are pending and if they are to old, it will send a mail to the user.