Schedule Work

Prioritizing work includes:

• Scheduling user stories
• Viewing scheduled work items

Scheduling user stories

Plan work for each iteration by selecting user stories from the backlog and scheduling them into an iteration using the Plan tab. Parent stories do not display in the backlog.

To schedule a user story from the Plan page:

1. Select the Plan tab, then select the Plan page.
2. Locate the user story to be scheduled in the backlog pane.
3. Click the user story and drag it into the desired iteration.

   Your user story is now scheduled into the selected iteration and the related fields on the User Story Detail page are updated to reflect the scheduling information.

Use the Plan tab to schedule defects and defect suites also.

To schedule a user story from the User Story Detail view:

1. Select the Plan tab, then select the User Stories page.
2. Select to view the detail of the user story.
3. Click the Actions button and select Edit.
4. From the Edit User Story page, click the iteration or release drop-down listings and select the appropriate time frame.
5. Click Save.

   The user story is scheduled and can be viewed in the related Iteration Status and or Release Status views.

Viewing scheduled work items

You can track which user stories, defects, and defect suites have been scheduled for a specific release or iteration.

The actions available on the Detail page will vary depending upon the Work Item Detail page being accessed.

From the related Scheduled Summary view, you can:

• Use the Actions button options to assist in managing the scheduled items.
• View Summary estimate totals for all items scheduled for the displayed release or iteration. The label icon on each column header contains the first letter of your defined unit of measure configured for the workspace under the Units tab. Hover your mouse over this icon to read the full label of your unit measurement.
  • Plan Est: This total represents the plan estimate for the scheduled work items.
  • Task Est: This is the total estimated amount of effort to complete the Tasks for the scheduled work items.
• Filter your scheduled items using attributes such as release, iteration, status and owner.
• Sort your display using various work item attributes such as rank, ID, name, release, iteration status, plan estimate and owner.