Visual WIP

New Post: What needs to be installed on a machine for VisualWIP to work?

sindiris — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:28:30 GMT

Looks like it, it works after you install Visual Studio 2010.

New Post: Zoom (Out)

TheCPUWizard — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:13:55 GMT

Alas, I have a very high Work Item Limit (the process is just starting to be adopted)....

Unfortunately when one zomes out (making the text rather small) the columns do not expand to fill the screen (and henc the same number of items - abour 4 on a large icon) are shown...

Is there any way to deal with this?

New Post: What needs to be installed on a machine for VisualWIP to work?

amitelad7 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:32:55 GMT

I've got .net 4.0 installed but the app still crashes

Does this require visual studio as well?

New Comment on "Column types"

Gnemesis — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:49:05 GMT

I've had the same issue. I'd love to use the videos as a starting point in setting up Visual WIP, it is difficult to do so when the videos have no audio track.

Commented Issue: Memory leaks? [1240]

davehenderson — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:41:24 GMT

<p>We're finding that Visual WIP exe memory usage increases every time we do a Refresh from the ribbon. It seems to be proportional to the number of "cards" on the kanban. If we have approx 50 cards on the kanban, and an automatic refresh interval of 30 seconds, it results in an application crash about once per day. I suspect a memory leak....is that possible?</p>

Comments: ** Comment from web user: davehenderson **

Hi, Just wanted to let you know that the previous fix (approx one year ago) improved our situation, but we still crash approximately once every 2 days due to memory leaks. We have about 25 items on the kanban, and refresh every 30 seconds.
If I manually hit refresh, I see memory usage jump by about 1MB.
I'm going to increase our refresh interval, but it would be nice to be able to leave it up perpetually.
Thanks again.

Source code checked in, #25482

Project Collection Service Accounts — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:39:23 GMT

Upgrade: New Version of LabDefaultTemplate.xaml. To upgrade your build definitions, please visit the following link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=254563

Source code checked in, #25481

Project Collection Service Accounts — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:37:52 GMT

Checked in by server upgrade

New Post: Add additional fields to the cards

HakanForss — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:36:27 GMT

Hi,

Yes you can customize the cards how much you like. It is done by updating the run-time loded xaml files. Take a look at this for an example.

http://visualwip.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Visualization%20customization%20Examples&referringTitle=Documentation

/ Håkan

New Post: Integration with TFS 2012

HakanForss — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:34:32 GMT

Hi,

Yes, absolutly. I will add an additional provider or update the current provider as time permitts.

/ Håkan

New Post: Add additional fields to the cards

Veronica46 — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:23:56 GMT

Hello everyone,

Is it possible to add custom fields to the cards besides the default ones, i.e. Title, Date, Assigned To ?

New Post: Integration with TFS 2012

Atrony — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:38:33 GMT

Any plans to support TFS2012 in VisualWIP?

New Post: How to use command line

markong — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:42:00 GMT

Do you have any description of commandline options?

New Post: How to automatically connect to TFS server and project

markong — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:41:07 GMT

When i open Visual WIP i have to each and every time choose TFS server and project.

We would like to have bat file which will automatically run Visual WIP after reboot but with TFS server/project popup it is not possible,

Is there any option in config files?

New Post: Visual WIP for SharePoint 2010

Dan2012 — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:19:10 GMT

When will Visual WIP for SharePoint 2010 be released?

New Post: Any way to scroll within a column?

mongermd — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:48:50 GMT

Since there was no follow-up example, I have an example that works well enough for single columns. Within the WorkItemResources.xaml file (as Hakan suggested), the WorkItem:WorkColumnViewModel DataTemplate can be modified as follows to use a ScrollViewer for vertical scrollbars on a single column:

<DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type WorkItem:WorkColumnViewModel}">
    <ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
    // Border content
    </ScrollViewer>
</DataTemplate>

Design Mode definitely helps resizing columns, but may not be sufficient for some larger Scrum teams that tackle more than a few stories. Additionally, a team may decide to use Visual WIP to display Stories and associated Tasks to get a full board view of sprint progress, which would require some scrolling. This may not be a common use of the tool, but the flexibility of the tool definitely helps these edge cases. Great job on Visual WIP!

Morgan

New Comment on "Column types"

chuck6478 — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:44:22 GMT

I've tried the documentation videos but there appears to be no audio. I've tried from different machines, browsers, and networks all with the same result.

Reviewed: Beta 2 (apr 19, 2012)

pserranne — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:36:44 GMT

Rated 4 Stars (out of 5) - Nice tool, can use some further polishing though in the UI. Great use of unity to inject providers which provides losse coupling to the underlying work item repository.

New Post: Looking for feedback

HakanForss — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:53:53 GMT

Hi Kirk,

Why would you need a Kanban Template to get chipping away on resolving your defects? Why is lead time and cycle time important to you in this context? What would a Kanban Template solve for you?

I added a suggested answer to the question at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsreporting/thread/3a3c57bf-2f27-4f79-8bfc-2a413eadd741

In short you simply need to add date fields for all the states and set the date when you make the transitions. This can be done in the work item definitions.

Visual WIP is designed to use TeamQueries so if you can by any means divide your work in different "states" using TeamQueries you can have Visual WIP visualize it.

If you don't have access to change the work item definitions but can make changes to iteration path and/or area you can use them to simulate states. Then create TeamQueries that will only show work items that is in that particular iteration path or area.

/ Håkan Forss

New Post: Looking for feedback

HakanForss — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:38:16 GMT

Just to make it clear David J. Anderson has not developed the "Kanban 2010 Process Template" on codeplex. When I last talked to him he endorses the project but are not actively involved.

The feature list is indeed a good starting point for developing an electronic Kanban tool. Visual WIP is not intended to be an electronic Kanban tool. Visual WIP is intended to be a visualization tool for process data stored in different electronic systems. At this moment TFS is the only data source but it can be extended to support systems like JIRA, SharePoint, QC and others.

/ Håkan Forss

New Post: Looking for feedback

Kirk_Bryde — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:31:17 GMT

Further to my previous comments, I'm trying to see how I can use Visual WIP on our existing corporate VSTS / TFS system. The problem I'm faced with is that we have hundreds of existing defects (up to a year old) that I'd like to use a Kanban process to chip away at. However, it appears that you must set up a Kanban Template first, so that the TFS database has all the right columns to determine lead time and cycle time. At the moment, we only use CreateDate, ResolvedDate, and ClosedDate. Clearly, this isn't enough to set up the columns needed for tracking lead time and cycle time.

We need additional date columns to populate "Analyzing", "Analyzed / Ready to Develop", "Developing", and "Testing" Kanban board columns - which are missing. Once we have these, we'll be able to compute lead time and cycle time based on these Kanban columns:

Backlog (query based onthe existing TFS "Created" date)
Analyzing
Analyzed / Ready to Develop
Developing
Developed / Ready to Test (query based on the existing TFS "Resolved" date)
Testing
Tested / Ready to Deploy (query based on the existing TFS "Closed" date)

Has this issue ever been solved with VisualWIP before, or if not, how do you suggest I solve it? I'm now thinking that I can't use VisualWIP as I intended to, until I add the additional columns. Since our TFS database columns are controlled by head office (it's a mult-national corporation), it's may take quite awhile to get these additional columns authorized - unless there's another way. Is there?

My problem is also nicely stated here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsreporting/thread/3a3c57bf-2f27-4f79-8bfc-2a413eadd741, but no one has provided an answer yet. I"m hoping that the VisualWIP guru has some ideas. ;)