{"id":27295,"date":"2017-01-23T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/?p=27295"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:55:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:55:55","slug":"new-feature-delivery-plans-for-visual-studio-team-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/new-feature-delivery-plans-for-visual-studio-team-services\/","title":{"rendered":"New Feature: Delivery Plans for Visual Studio Team Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re announcing a brand new Visual Studio Team Services feature\u2026 Delivery Plans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/plans.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/plans.png\" alt=\"plans\" width=\"826\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are Delivery Plans?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re planning and tracking work, it\u2019s often necessary to see that work across Teams and Projects. \u00a0Visual Studio Team Services already provides customizable Kanban boards and Backlogs to help teams get their work done, but it\u2019s often difficult to assemble the data from all those Boards and Backlogs into a comprehensive view. \u00a0Delivery Plans changes all that. A Delivery Plan is a view of the work from multiple teams (and multiple projects) laid out on a calendar with each team&#8217;s interations. Each row in the view represents the work from a team\u2019s backlog, with each card corresponding to a work item &#8212; user story, feature, or epic.\u00a0As you horizontally scroll through the calendar, work in future (or past) iterations comes into view.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Kanban board, a Delivery Plan is an interactive work board, although one designed for multiple teams. You can add teams from across all the projects in your account.\u00a0 If the plan needs updating, you can simply drag cards to update the iteration path. And, like the Kanban board, you can customize the card fields so that you can see relevant information for your work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delivery Plans in practice <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Internally, we\u2019ve been testing delivery plans for several months with a focus on sharing the schedule of new Features being added to Team Services. Every three weeks, we review our Delivery Plan to discuss whether we\u2019ve set the right priorities and determine if dependencies exist.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the questions that we ask of teams in our 3-sprint reviews are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>How confident are the teams in meeting the deliverables scheduled for each sprint?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Are dependencies across teams adequately addressed via the planned deliverables?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Are there gaps in the schedule? What&#8217;s the cause? Can this be mitigated?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Next steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Delivery Plans are available for public preview on all Team Services accounts. You begin by installing the Plans extension available from <a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\/items?itemName=ms.vss-plans\">the Visual Studio marketplace<\/a>. Delivery Plans will be made available in Team Foundation Server (TFS) in a future release.<\/p>\n<p>We have additional features to add to Delivery Plans in the next few months. A few highlights are \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Markers<\/strong> to highlight key dates (such as release dates and customer demonstrations) on the plan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Field <\/strong><strong>Criteria<\/strong> which will allow you to tailor your plans to only show a subset of cards (such as work items with a certain tag or other field value)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dependency tracking<\/strong>. Highlighting dependency links between work items and whether they are scheduled to be resolved successfully.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please install the extension and leave feedback on <a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudio.uservoice.com\/forums\/330519-team-services\">Uservoice<\/a>\u00a0about other views and additions that you would like to see on Delivery Plans.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about installing and using delivery plans, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/docs\/work\/scale\/review-team-plans\">Review team plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick Fu\nProgram Manager, VSTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re announcing a brand new Visual Studio Team Services feature\u2026 Delivery Plans. What are Delivery Plans? 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