{"id":4353,"date":"2012-09-24T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T09:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/09\/24\/tfsagile-pm-configuring-so-your-tasks-are-estimated-in-story-points\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:58:13","slug":"tfsagile-pm-configuring-so-your-tasks-are-estimated-in-story-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/tfsagile-pm-configuring-so-your-tasks-are-estimated-in-story-points\/","title":{"rendered":"TFS\/Agile PM: Configuring so your tasks are estimated in story points"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve had a few people ask: \u201cWhat if I estimate my tasks in something other than hours, like ideal days or story points?\u201d<\/p>\n

The truth of the matter is, the \u201cRemaining Work\u201d field on the Task work item is just a dumb integer. You can enter anything you like in it. The only thing that even references what unit it might be in is the little \u201ch\u201d that appears on the task board and on the capacity pane.<\/p>\n

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If you are installing TFS 2012 on-premise, this little \u201ch\u201d is configurable to be whatever you want. (Unfortunately, it is not configurable for tfspreview.com \u2026 yet)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how:<\/p>\n

Step 1: Export the configuration settings to an XML file.<\/h2>\n
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cd C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0Common7IDE<\/p>\n

witadmin.exe exportcommonprocessconfig \/collection:http:\/\/SERVERNAME<\/strong><\/u><\/font>:8080\/tfs\/DefaultCollection
                 \/p:PROJECTNAM<\/strong><\/u><\/font>E  \/f:.CommonConfig.xml<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Step 2: Edit the XML file to change your \u201cRemaining Work\u201d suffix.<\/h2>\n
\n

Locate this line in the XML file: <\/p>\n

    <TypeField refname="Microsoft.VSTS.Scheduling.RemainingWork" type="RemainingWork" format="{0} h<\/font>" \/><\/p>\n

Edit the highlighted part to be whatever you want. For example, if you estimate in story points, you can change it to \u201c{0} sp\u201d.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Step 3: Import the configurable settings from the XML file<\/h2>\n
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witadmin.exe importcommonprocessconfig \/collection:http:\/\/SERVERNAME<\/strong><\/u><\/font>:8080\/tfs\/DefaultCollection
                    \/p:PROJECTNAM<\/strong><\/u><\/font>E  \/f:.CommonConfig.xml<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

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I\u2019ve had a few people ask: \u201cWhat if I estimate my tasks in something other than hours, like ideal days or story points?\u201d The truth of the matter is, the \u201cRemaining Work\u201d field on the Task work item is just a dumb integer. You can enter anything you like in it. The only thing that […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}