Contribution Dashboard (GovDev)

You can use the Contribution dashboard to understand the contribution by each team member toward completing an iteration or project.

NoteNote

You access dashboards through your team project portal. You can access the dashboard only if that portal has been enabled and is provisioned. For more information, see Dashboards (GovDev) or Access a Team Project Portal and Process Guidance.

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You can use this dashboard to answer the following questions :

  • How many hours are being completed by the team?

  • How many check-ins has each team member made?

  • What is the code churn for each team member?

Required Permissions

To view the dashboard, 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, copy, or customize a dashboard, you must 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 Add Users to Team Projects.

To modify a report in Office Excel, 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 .

To view a work item, you must be a member of the Readers group or your View work items in this node permission must be set to Allow. To create or modify a work item, you must be a member of the Contributors group or your Edit work items in this node permission must be set to Allow . For more information, see Managing Permissions.

Data Displayed in the Dashboard

You can use the Contribution dashboard to understand how much progress the team is making toward completing tasks. Specifically, this dashboard displays the Web parts that the following illustration shows and that the following table describes.

Contribution Dashboard
NoteNote

The Contribution report Step 1 does not appear when the server that hosts Analysis Services for the team project is not available.

For more information about how to interpret, update, or customize the charts that appear in the Contribution dashboard, see the topics that are listed in the following table.

Web part

Data displayed

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Step 1

A visual representation of the cumulative count of all hours, check-ins and lines of code churn that the team spent on implementation for the project.

Contribution chart

Team Contribution Report

Step 2

List of upcoming events. The list is derived from a SharePoint Web part.

Import Events Web part

Not applicable

Step 3

Count of active, resolved, and closed work items. You can open the list of work items by clicking each number. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web part.

Project Work Items Web part

Work Items and Workflow (GovDev)

Step 4

List of recent builds and their status. You can view more details about a specific build by clicking it. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web part.

Recent Builds Web part

Managing and Viewing Completed Builds

Step 5

List of the most recent check-ins. You can view more details about a specific check-in by clicking it. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web part.

Recent Checkins Web part

Using the Check In and Pending Changes Windows

Required Activities for Tracking Progress

For the Contribution by Team Member report that appears in the Contribution dashboard to be useful and accurate, the team must perform the following activities:

  • Specify and update the Completed and Remaining fields for each task as the team works on it.

  • Associate the code check-in with the task the code supports.

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

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