Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP

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MSDN Blog Postings » Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:07:30 GMT

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Too soon! Too soon!

Rediscovering the Obvious — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:43:53 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/08/06/work-item-tracking-enhancements-in-the-aug-rosario-ctp.aspx

re: Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP

bharry — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:55:24 GMT

Sorry about that. We've been debating internally when is the right time to talk about this stuff. The truth is that we already delayed it once because we didn't want to release a Rosario CTP until after Orcas Beta 2 shipped. Nobody will make you download it and install it :) There's plenty of good stuff in the Orcas release to keep you busy for a while.

If it turns out that many people don't like the early look at things, we may hold them off in future versions. I have to admit, we're trying something new this time and if it doesn't work out, we'll try something else.

Brian

Get the "Rosario" CTP

marcus's Team System motivation and experience — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:57:34 GMT

After a week of time letting Orcas Beta 2 settle down we released the Visual Studio Team System Code

re: Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP

Mike — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:58:00 GMT

2 things.

- NOT too soon, as long is you also give instructions how to give feedback that will be looked at.

- Feedback: Would be nice to be able to create Team Queries in the work items and have them show up as a report that's available for SharePoint or other dash board.

re: Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP

Mike — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:00:19 GMT

1. Click here(http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Feedback) to submit feedback.

2. On the page, click “Submit Feedback.”

3. Sign in using your Windows Live ID or Microsoft Passport Account.

4. Search "Feedback" to see if the issue has already been submitted. If you find an issue similar to your own, you can validate and/or vote on the issue to increase its visibility. Otherwise, continue to the next step.

5. Click the “Submit Feedback” button found beneath the search results table.

6. You may submit either Bugs or Suggestions by selecting the proper feedback form.

7. Make sure that you select “Visual Studio Team System Code Name “Rosario” August 2007 CTP ” as your answer for the “Version” field.

8. Fill in the rest of the form to the best of your ability, and click the “Submit” button.

9. We will contact you via your Windows Live ID / Passport email address once we have reviewed your issue.

re: Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP

bharry — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:06:52 GMT

The best way to provide feedback is via http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio. Just make sure to choose the Rosario CTP as the product version. If you have more general feedback, my blog is a good way to provide it - or you can send email to me.

It's funny you suggest turning queries into reports. Making reports a lot easier to author is high on our list of features for Rosario. Look for the next CTP and let me know what you think.

Brian

Not too soon at all!

Klaus Enevoldsen — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:28:56 GMT

I have been testing LINQ and some of the Orcas features since Q4 2005 and I am somewhat familiar with it, the new features and changes that are in Orcas since the March CTP is not that many and I am ready to look at Rosario.

For Orcas I provided some feed back very early on and most of what I reported has been fixed, which is great. If you want to have just a little say in some features you have to involve yourself early on, by the time Beta 2 of a product arrives, then it is too late!

What I miss in Rosario is a list of changes and a description of the things that you want to achieve.

This "Hierarchical work items for work breakdown and status rollups" I see it only in CMMI, we could really use it in Agile too!

re: Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP

bharry — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:33:05 GMT

Thanks,

I'm working on a list of features/roadmap post. Keep your eyes open for it.

Brian

re: Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP

Eric Willeke — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:49:11 GMT

I think Brian missed the reason for my frustration based on my original trackback up top. I've added the following edit to my original post, and am cross-posting it here to explain better:

[edit]

I'm actually quite happy that MS is pushing information out about their products well in advance. This allows companies to plan changes they must and can make to their processes well in advance, vet them out a bit vs. CTP/Beta releases, and be ready to take advantage of releases when they're available. I'm a HUGE fan of early transparency. However, agreeing a bit with some of the comments at the original post, there are a few thing that would help, especially ways to help filter talk about pre-release versions from live versions in searches (aka WPF vs. Avalon when looking for solutions to problems) and clear channels for discussion regarding specific products/versions (i.e. a link to a forum the devs will monitor in any significant 'official' posting about a technology/toolset).

This rant was just my frustration because I've deeply wished for the improved work item linking he's described for quite some time... something about having to do process definition for military and health care work ;)

re: Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP

bharry — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:50:35 GMT

Thanks for the follow up. I'll post something about communication channels for Rosario feedback.

Brian

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