Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Step 9 – Plan Your Iteration
In this step you plan for the iteration by breaking down the scenarios, QoS requirements,
and other work items into tasks, estimating effort for each task and assigning the tasks to
the relevant team members. You repeat this step for each iteration cycle.
Developer Tasks
1. Break down the chosen scenarios into developer stories
2. Subdivide the developer stories into developer tasks.
3. Capture developer tasks in TFS as task work items.
a. In Team Explorer, under your project node, right-click the Work Items
folder, point to Add Work Item and then click Task.
b. In the New Task page, add the following details
i. Set Discipline to Development.
ii. Set Iteration to the current iteration cycle.
iii. On the Links tab link the task to the specific scenario for easier
traceability.
iv. On the New Task Page, along with the description you can capture the
acceptance criteria for the task, which can determine if the task is
completed successfully.
v. Set the Assigned to field to the developer who will be working on the
task.
c. Save the new task.
d. Repeat the above steps for all the identified tasks.
4. Repeat the above steps for all the identified scenarios for the iteration.
Test Tasks
1. Break down the QoS requirements for the identified scenario into test cases.
2. Divide the test cases into test tasks, these test tasks are captured in TFS as task work
items.
a. In Team Explorer, under your project node, right-click the Work Items
folder, point to Add Work Item and then click Task.
b. In the New Task page, add the following details
i. Set Discipline to Test.
ii. Set Iteration to the current iteration cycle.
iii. On the Links tab link the task to the specific QoS requirements for
easier traceability.
iv. On the New Task page, along with the description you can capture the
acceptance criteria for the task, which can determine if the task is
completed successfully.
v. Set the Assigned to field to the tester who will be working on the task.
c. Save the new task.
d. Repeat the above steps for all the identified tasks.
3. Repeat the above steps for all the QoS requirements for the iteration