Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

To publish a project plan to TFS
1. If you are creating a new project plan, set up your tasks, durations, resource
assignments, dependencies, and other details as you would normally do with
Microsoft Office Project.
2. In Microsoft Office Project, on the Team menu, click Choose Team Project.
3. Select the Team Foundation Server for your team project.
4. Select your team project.
5. Click OK.
6. In the Work Item Type column, set the work item type for each work item that you
want published to TFS.
7. In the Sync column, for summary tasks that you do not want to publish to TFS, select
Do Not Publish.
8. If you have any tasks that are assigned to more than one resource, divide them into
separate tasks that can be assigned to one resource. (Team Foundation Server does
not currently support assigning a work item to multiple resources.) Optionally, you
can group the separate tasks into a summary task to receive the automatic calculation
benefits.
To group sets of tasks, create a set of areas in TFS, and then group tasks by setting the
Area column. TFS, see “How to: Modify the Team Project Areas” at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181479(VS.80).aspx
9. On the Work Item toolbar, select Publish to publish the project plan to TFS.
Additional Resources
• For more information, see “Working with Work Items in Microsoft Project” at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms244368(VS.80).aspx
• For more information, see “How to: Import Work Items in Microsoft Excel or
Microsoft Project” at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/enus/library/ms181676(VS.80).aspx
• For more information, see “Tracking Team Projects in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft
Project” at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms244373(VS.80).aspx
How to Use Microsoft Excel to Manage Your Project
Use Microsoft Office Excel® to store, sort, filter, and manage requirements, scenarios,
issues, bugs, risks, and work items.
There are two ways to create a work item list. With the first approach, from Team
Explorer you can select a work item query and create a new data-bound spreadsheet. The
new spreadsheet contains a work item list that is populated with the data from the query.
You can also create a work item list from within Excel by using the add-in to select a
project and import work items.
To create a work item list with Excel
1. In Microsoft Office Excel, on the Team menu, click New List.