Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Figure 12.2 Transition States for MSF Agile
Customizing Work Items
There are a few scenarios in which you may want to modify the work item types defined
in MSF Agile or MSF CMMI:
• A work item is missing a field that is important for your development process.
• A work item workflow does not match how your team works.
• You need a new work item type.
To support these scenarios, you can do the following in TFS:
• Add/remove work item types.
• Modify fields in existing work items.
• Modify states and transitions in existing work items.
For more information about customizing work items, see “How To: Customize a Process
Template in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.”
Summary
Work items are used by project managers and team leaders to track the work to be done
on a project. They are used to create development tasks to represent the work that must
be completed, create bugs to represent defects in the implementation and create user
requirements or Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Additionally they can be used to
track development and testing against requirements, and to determine the quality of the
application and its readiness to be shipped.
The MSF Agile and MSF CMMI process templates provide a set of default work item
types. You can customize these or create new work item types to meet your process
requirements.