{"id":6811,"date":"2009-04-01T07:49:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T07:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2009\/04\/01\/another-use-for-tfs-work-item-tracking\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:22:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:22:13","slug":"another-use-for-tfs-work-item-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/another-use-for-tfs-work-item-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Another use for TFS Work Item Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our user education (documentation) team recently changed the tooling and process for tracking documentation reviews.  They have a fairly daunting requirement to track reviews of hundreds of topics by dozens of people against a rigorous schedule.  We used to have a purpose build documentation review tool but no one ever liked it.  They recently moved to a TFS\/Sharepoint based solution for it.  The results from the first round have been pretty promising and I thought I’d just pass it on as a creative way to think about using TFS to track a complex process.<\/p>\n

Here’s look at what the custom work item form looks like:<\/p>\n

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And here are some of the reports they can produce off of it:<\/p>\n

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Just thought I’d share it because it struck me as a good example of a way to customize TFS to the needs of a specific process.<\/p>\n

Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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