New Rangers Project – TFS Iteration Automation

We are excited to announce a small, yet razor-sharp-focused Rangers project. It is a out-of-band solution project, which is planning to see release 1.0 released as a Rangers project and Release 2 and beyond as community projects. The initial team will be small and focused as outlined below, however, a call for reviewers will be made once the testing strategy is agreed by the team.

Codename

• African Fish Eagle
  … African Fish Eagle at https://birdsofprey.co.za

Abstract

• This Ranger project has the primary goal of delivering a out-of-band solution which assists the Dave (TFS Admin) and Garry (Dev Lead) personas, ensuring iteration maintenance can be more productive and consistent.

Value

• Productivity improvement for personas Dave and Gary
• Productivity improvement for Rangers projects
• Create foundation for community tool

Epic Proposals

• Release 1 Scope
  • Epic 1: As Dave or Gary I want WIQL queries to be automatically updated when I move from iteration to iteration+1 or sprint to sprint+1.
  • Epic 2: As Garry and Doris (Developer) I want a reusable and documented tooling framework that allows me to implement Epics 3-6 and additional extensions.
• Out-of-scope (planned as future community enhancements)
  • Epic 3: As Dave or Gary I want queries to be created or changed automatically in line with my process template when I create new Areas and Iterations so that I don’t have to do it manually
  • Epic 4: As Dave or Gary I want to be able to easily create sub projects (areas) in my team project so that I can run multiple projects under the one umbrella, maybe using the same team.
  • Epic 5: As Dave or Gary I want SharePoint folders to be setup automatically when I create areas and iterations so that I don’t have to do it manually
  • Epic 6: As Dave and Gary I want to have reports created that are already setup within a specific Area

Proposed TimeLine

• Announce February 2011
• Start March 2011
• Epic 1 – Rangers Release FY11
• Epic 2+ - Community (MVP Rangers) initiative

Project core team