Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Additional Resources
• For more information about source tree structure, see “Chapter 5 – Defining Your
Branching and Merging Strategy” in this guide.
Work Items
• Capture your scenarios at the start of your project.
• Define your Quality of Service requirements appropriately.
• Break scenarios into manageable, modular development tasks.
• Set acceptance criteria for each task.
• Link requirements and tasks to scenarios.
• Use Microsoft Excel for bulk editing of work items.
Capture Your Scenarios at the Start of Your Project
Create and capture a set of project scenarios at the start of your project. This helps you to
gain a complete picture of your project and can later be used track progress. During the
course of development, you can modify existing scenarios or add new scenarios to
represent what you learn over time.
To capture scenarios at the start of the project
1. Use the project back log (PBL) document, which is a requirement document based on
input from various stakeholders (including customers, business analysts, end users,
and product managers), and scope out the scenarios for your project.
2. In Team Explorer, expand the project node, right-click the Work Items folder, point
to Add Work Item, and then click Scenario.
3. On the New Scenario page, enter the details for the scenario. Make sure to set the
Iteration to Iteration 999.
4. Save your new scenario.
5. Repeat the above steps for all scenarios that you have identified for the project.
Additional Resources
• For more information about capturing scenarios, see “How To – Manage Projects in
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server” in this guide.
Define Your Quality of Service Requirements Appropriately
Define your Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for each of the scenarios to be
worked on during the iteration cycle. This helps to define the acceptance criteria for the
scenario. The inputs for the QoS requirements come from project goals and requirements
and specification documentation, if available.
To define your QoS requirements
1. Right-click your project’s Work Items folder, point to Add Work Item, and then
click Quality of Service Requirements.
2. On the New Quality of Service Requirements page, add the following details: