Is it possible to assign a work item in TFS to different people?

Question

TFS (2008) has the great feature of work item tracking where I can easily see what people are doing all day long. Now I was wondering if I could assign a work item to different people or if they could write time on an item in a trackable way.

For example: We have two developers Mr. A and Ms. B. A did 4 hours of work and 50% of the work item "Create customer screen" until he gets ill. Than B has to finish the other 50% but I do not want to lose the progress of A because it could seem that A worked 4 hours less and B 4 hours too much.

Unfortunatly it seems that I can enter only one name in "assigned to" when I am using TFS 2008 and can not store the item if I try to seperate the names by comma or semicolon. Do you know if such a feature is included in TFS 2010?

Thank you for help.

Answer 1

No. This is one of the few aspects that haven't changed from 2008 to 2010.

Thomas

Answer 2

I'm not sure about assigning one item to multiple people but you could setup groups to which multiple people belonged. I'm not sure of your other requirements but this should solve this issue here. In essence Mr A and Mr B would both belong to a group called, say, 'Developers' to which the work item is assigned. Thus the full 8 hours is logged against a single entity.

Here is an (old) article on how to do this elegantly. You may want to split up your groups to as specific a category name as possible (e.g. 'Core Developers', 'Javascript Developers')

Found this link that implies that they are aware of the need but have not implemented a resolution yet