Does Team Foundation support cross-app workitem groups?
- by drachenstern
We're currently using Visual Source Safe and BugNet and looking to migrate up and away from VSS. I've been pushing for either SVN ( a) we're an ASP.NET shop, b) DCVS is not an option - no matter how much I like Hg ;-) or TFS. Well we finally got a new dev server, so I talked the boss into installing TFS on it (30 day trial). In the meantime, we had started experimenting with FogBugz. We really like FogBugz for about 80% of what we want to do, and the other 20% is probably stuff that we don't know what we want.
I'm pushing for TFS because it allows for IDE integrated (mostly) everything.
He's pushing for FogBugz because he can group tasks by customer and then project and manage everything from one dashboard. (which means I lose most of my IDE integration - no huge loss I agree)
Does TFS support a single dashboard that would span all our solutions (in this case each solution is a full app that we sell to a vertical market client) and let us assign workitems to each solution-spanning-group?
So for instance I think we envision something like this:
PROJECT1 - Bugtracker and workitems
PROJECT2 - Bugtracker and workitems
PROJECT3 - Bugtracker and workitems
CUSTOMER1 - Deployment schedules, required features, specific notes (Uses PROJECT1, PROJECT2)
CUSTOMER2 - Deployment schedules, required features, specific notes (Uses PROJECT2, PROJECT3)
CUSTOMER3 - Deployment schedules, required features, specific notes (Uses PROJECT1, PROJECT3)
Hopefully that makes sense. naturally it's more complicated than this but I think I've given the details enough to paint a picture.
I offered the option of creating dummy projects per customer but he doesn't like that and it doesn't really give us the single dashboard view that we're hoping to end up with (and that FogBugz as we've sorta implmented things does do now).
Has anyone got a good suggestion on a management app that would accomplish what both of us want?
