team companion overview
DESCRIPTION
TeamCompanion is a first class Team Foundation Server (TFS) client within Outlook. In addition to the standard TFS client features, TeamCompanion leverages Outlook features providing unique capabilities that lead to better collaboration and communication among project stakeholders.TeamCompanion has rich support for Scrum. Here is the list of some of related features: Product/Sprint Backlog UI, Support for Teams, real time statistics and Burndown chart, Velocity chart, Drag-and-drop support for reordering and assignment, quick add PBI UI and many more.TRANSCRIPT
TeamCompanionOverview
Ognjen BajicAna Roje IvancicEkobit, VSIP Partner
Agenda
~ TeamCompanion – TFS and Outlook~ Scrum with TeamCompanion
Product Backlog & Planning the Project Sprint Backlog & Planning a Sprint Running a Sprint
Burndown & Progress tracking Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation
TFS• Work Items• Work Item Queries• Reports• Builds• Documents
Outlook• Emails• Appointments• Reminders• Tasks
TeamCompanionThe Best TFS client for MS Outlook
Provides for better collaboration, increased productivity in daily tasks
and efficient Agile Project Management.
Fully Featured TFS Client
~ Full support with powerful enhancements ~ Work Item Management
One click “Add” One click “Done” Work Item Queries (flat/hierarchical)
~ Reports and Sharepoint Documents~ Agile Project Management
Offline work and „What if” analysis Clever graphical UI with Drag’n’Drop support
TeamCompanion’s Look and Feel
Deep integration of Outlook and TFS~WI Queries~ Add To
Favorites~ Integrated
work item form
~ One click “Add”~ One click
“Done”
Offline WI management
~ Offline WI management Edit WIs and WI
hierarchies Save, Undo
Filtering and Grouping
~ Search Full text Custom
expressions eg. [Remaining work]>4
~ Powerful hierarchies - Grouping
Scheduled Work Item Queries
~ No more notification emails for WI change
~ More focused Outlook style notifications
Increase Productivity
~ “One Click” Reports
~ Rich action set on WIs and WI Queries
~ SharePoint Documents
Agenda
~ TeamCompanion~ Scrum with TeamCompanion
Scrum Overview Product Backlog & Planning the Project Sprint Backlog & Planning a Sprint Running a Sprint
Burndown & Progress tracking Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation
Product Backlog
Sprint Backlog
Daily Standup
Sprint
Potentially Shippable Increment
TRANSPARENCY
INSPECTION
ADAPTATION
Scrum
Agenda
~ TeamCompanion~ Scrum with TeamCompanion
Scrum Overview Product Backlog & Planning the Project Sprint Backlog & Planning a Sprint Running a Sprint
Burndown & Progress tracking Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation
Product Backlog
Sprint Backlog
Daily Standup
Sprint
Potentially Shippable Increment
•Product Backlog UI•Velocity Diagram•D’n’D ordering of PBIs
Scrum with TeamCompanion
Planning the Project with TeamCompanionTools and Features
~ Fully featured Product Backlog UI Product Backlog list Velocity Diagram
How many PBI-s were implemented in previous sprints (measured in Story Points)?
Embedded real-time statistics
~ Actions Quickly reorder PBIs using Drag’n’Drop Easily add new PBIs with one click
Product Backlog
PM node
in Outlook tree
Product Backlog view
Product Backlog
Product Backlog
Velocity chart
Capacity per Sprint
PBIs estimated in Story Points
Quickly add new
PBIs
Product BacklogNew PBIs
created by Product Owner
New PBIs added
Save change
s
Product Backlog
New PBIs created
from Mails
Product Backlog
Drag’n’Drop support for reordering of PBIs
PBIs are ordered and assigned a story point estimate
Product Backlog
Edited PBI-s shown in
italics
Save or discard changes
Demo
Demo
Planning the Project with TeamCompanion
Agenda
~ TeamCompanion~ Scrum with TeamCompanion
Scrum Overview Product Backlog & Planning the Project Sprint Backlog & Planning a Sprint Running a Sprint
Burndown & Progress tracking Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation
Product Backlog
Sprint Backlog
Daily Standup
Sprint
Potentially Shippable Increment
Scrum with TeamCompanion
•Sprint Backlog UI•Team Support•Capacity Planning•D’n’D assignment of PBIs and Tasks
•Product Backlog UI•Velocity Diagram•D’n’D ordering of PBIs
Planning a Sprint with TeamCompanionTools and Features
~ Fully featured Sprint Backlog UI Sprint Backlog list Support for managing Teams Capacity planning Embedded real-time statistics
~ Actions Quickly assign PBIs and Tasks using
Drag’n’Drop Easily decompose PBIs into Tasks with one
click
Sprint BacklogSelect a Sprint
Sprint Backlo
g
Capacity per Team Member
Capacity per Sprint
Sprint Backlog
Sprint settings related to Capacity
Sprint Backlog
Capacity per Discipline
Product BacklogTeam
Settings
Demo
Demo
Planning a Sprint with TeamCompanion
Agenda
~ TeamCompanion~ Scrum with TeamCompanion
Scrum Overview Product Backlog & Planning the Project Sprint Backlog & Planning a Sprint Running a Sprint
Burndown & Progress tracking Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation
Product Backlog
Sprint Backlog
Daily Standup
Sprint
Potentially Shippable Increment
•Product Backlog UI•Velocity Diagram•D’n’D ordering of PBIs
• Sprint Backlog UI•Team Support•Capacity Planning•D’n’D assignment of PBIs and Tasks
Scrum with TeamCompanion
•Burndown Chart•Remaining Capacity Charts•Full-text search for Work Items
Running a Sprint with TeamCompanionTools and Features
~ Integrated UI for burndown and progress tracking Sprint Backlog UI Real-time Burndown chart Real-time Remaining Capacity charts Full-text search for Work Items Various filtering options
~ Actions Quickly reassign PBIs and Tasks using
Drag’n’Drop Update remaining/completed work
Running a Sprint Burndown chart refreshes in real
time
Remaining capacity per team
member
Demo
Demo
Running a Sprint with TeamCompanion
Agenda
~ TeamCompanion~ Scrum with TeamCompanion
Scrum Overview Product Backlog & Planning the Project Sprint Backlog & Planning a Sprint Running a Sprint
Burndown & Progress tracking Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation
Product Backlog
Sprint Backlog
Daily Standup
Sprint
Potentially Shippable Increment
TRANSPARENCY• Scheduled work item queries•Highlighted changes•Easy “Done” email• “One Click” Reports•Work Item Hierarchies•Work item Reminders
INSPECTION•Burndown Chart•Remaining Capacity Charts• Full-text search for Work
Items
ADAPTATION•Rich Work Item Management features•Email-Work Item Bridge•Offline Support and “What-If” Analysis
• Send Work Item Query as Email
Scrum with TeamCompanion
•Product Backlog UI•Velocity Diagram•D’n’D ordering of PBIs
• Sprint Backlog UI•Team Support•Capacity Planning•D’n’D assignment of PBIs and Tasks
Summary
Outlook +TFS=
Collaboration + Productivity + Agile PM
~ Non technical Users (PM, BA, Product managers etc.)
~ Power Users Supports everything in VS (+ more)
~ Everyone