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While i am working on managing my sprints in Visual Studio Team Services, all my sprint options on the left pane has disappeared, therefore i can't see my previous and future sprint work items when i select work items under backlogs tab.
Any idea ?
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Open the Project in Visual Studio Click on Open in Visual Studio. Click on Servers to add the VSTS URL which will then show up for the projects created. You will need to sign in with the VSTS account which you created earlier.
If you open Visual Studio and the Team Explorer pane doesn't appear, choose the View>Team Explorer menu option from the tool bar.
If there is a gap between the sprint dates then the previous sprint stays 'current' up until the day on which the next sprint starts. Note that there is no manual way to close a sprint. You have to do it with the dates. I came from JIRA to TFS as well and was really surprised how difficult this was to do!
One final thing to do before finalizing the sprint plan is to check the capacity screen one more time. On the right-hand side, there are bullet graphs representing each team member's capacity and the amount of work scheduled for them. If the bars are green, you are good to go.
While VSTS supports varying sprint durations, teams generally operate better with a consistent schedule. Set the sprint capacity to later compare to scheduled work. Although VSTS capacity is set per day in hours, this number can be calculated from week-based or sprint-based capacity estimations.
If an inline image isn't displayed in a work item form that you view in Visual Studio Team Explorer, but the image is displayed in the web portal, your credentials might have expired. You can resolve this by completing the following steps:
This happens when you set or select a specific sprint as your "set as team's backlog iteration" and the solution for this is to the following:
1) From the project homepage in VS Team Services.
2) Click on "Configure Schedule and iterations" link under other links section.
3) Select "Iterations" tab.
4) Set "set as team's backlog iteration" option to the top level.
5) You will notice check boxes have shown, where you can select which iterations to show or hide.
6) That's all! you will be able to view all selected sprints either previous/current or future ones!
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