You use planning, ranking, and priority fields to specify which work the team should complete first. If you rank use cases, tasks, bugs, and issues, all team members gain an understanding of the relative importance of the work that they must accomplish. Ranking and priority fields are used to build several reports.
You rank and prioritize work items when you review the backlog for a product or an iteration. For more information, see Rank the Product Backlog and Iteration Backlog.
The following table indicates which data fields you can specify for each type of work item that is provided with the process template for GovDev for TFS 2010 v1.0.
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Use Case |
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Support Ticket |
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The following table describes the fields that you can use to plan and prioritize work and that are based on GovDev for TFS 2010 v1.0. For information about data types and default field attributes, see Working with Work Item Fields.
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Field name |
Description |
Reference name |
Data type |
Default value of the reportable type attribute |
Default value of the index attribute |
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Priority |
A subjective rating of the bug, issue, task, or test case as it relates to the business. You can specify the following values:
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Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Priority |
Integer |
Dimension |
False |
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Rank |
A subjective rating of the use case, task, issue, or bug compared to other work items of the same type. An item that is assigned a lower number should be fixed before an item that is assigned a higher number. |
Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Rank |
Double |
Dimension |
False |
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Story Points |
A subjective unit of measure that captures the size of a use case. If you assign more points to a use case, you indicate that more work is required to implement it. |
Microsoft.VSTS. Scheduling.StoryPoints |
Double |
Dimension |
True |
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Risk |
A subjective rating of the relative uncertainty around the successful completion of the use case. You can specify the following values:
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Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Risk |
String |
Dimension |
False |
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Severity |
A subjective rating of the impact of a bug on the project. You can specify the following values:
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Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Severity |
String |
Dimension |
False |
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Due Date |
The forecasted date for an issue to be completed. This field is applicable only to issue work items. |
Microsoft.VSTS.Scheduling.DueDate |
DateTime |
Dimension |
False |