Task Progress Excel Report

You can use the Task Progress report to track how much work the team has completed and how much remains. This report shows the distribution of active and closed Tasks over time. For information about how to access this report, see Excel Reports (GovDev).

NoteNote

You can view the Task Progress report from the Progress dashboard. You can access this dashboard only if your team project portal has been enabled and is provisioned to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. For more information, see Access a Team Project Portal and Process Guidance.

Required Permissions

To view the report, you must be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned the Read permissions in SharePoint Products for the team project.

To modify or customize the report, you must be a member of the TfsWarehouseDataReaders security role in SQL Server Analysis Services. You must also be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned the Members permissions in SharePoint Products for the team project. For more information, see Grant Access to the Databases of the Data Warehouse for Visual Studio ALM and Managing Permissions.

Data in the Report

You can use the Task Progress report to track how much work remains to be completed. This report is based on a PivotChart report that shows the last four weeks of data that is captured for Tasks and that is stored in the data warehouse.

Task Progress Excel Report

Required Activities for Tracking Tasks

For the Task Progress report to be useful and accurate, the team must perform the following activities:

  • Define Tasks.

  • Change the State of each Task to Closed as the team completes it.

  • (optional) Specify the Iteration and Area paths of each Task if you want to filter by those fields.

Interpreting the Report

Updating and Customizing the Report

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