{"id":6513,"date":"2011-02-16T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2011\/02\/16\/want-to-better-understand-relationships-between-team-foundation-server-work-items\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:51:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:51:57","slug":"want-to-better-understand-relationships-between-team-foundation-server-work-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/want-to-better-understand-relationships-between-team-foundation-server-work-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to better understand relationships between Team Foundation Server work items?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can create a dependency (DGML) graph to see links between work items by using the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/gjTiSD\">Work Item Visualizer available on MSDN Code Gallery<\/a>&nbsp;for Visual Studio 2010&nbsp;Ultimate.&nbsp;This tool can help you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Analyze the hierarchy of your&nbsp;work items more easily.<\/li>\n<li>Perform basic risk\/impact analysis when creating or editing work items.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss the entire scope of linked work items.<\/li>\n<li>Plan projects more easily.<\/li>\n<li>Eliminate the need to create queries or reports to view tree of work items.<\/li>\n<li>See the entire tree of work items linked to the one you&#8217;re working on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/5611.TFSLinks.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can create a dependency (DGML) graph to see links between work items by using the Work Item Visualizer available on MSDN Code Gallery&nbsp;for Visual Studio 2010&nbsp;Ultimate.&nbsp;This tool can help you: Analyze the hierarchy of your&nbsp;work items more easily. Perform basic risk\/impact analysis when creating or editing work items. Discuss the entire scope of linked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,253,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agile","category-azure-devops-server","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>You can create a dependency (DGML) graph to see links between work items by using the Work Item Visualizer available on MSDN Code Gallery&nbsp;for Visual Studio 2010&nbsp;Ultimate.&nbsp;This tool can help you: Analyze the hierarchy of your&nbsp;work items more easily. Perform basic risk\/impact analysis when creating or editing work items. Discuss the entire scope of linked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513","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\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/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=6513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}