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ADringer
ADringer

Reputation: 2834

Team Services team's backlog not showing tasks

I'm currently using Team Services with multiple teams but am having an issue with displaying tasks on the specific team's backlog.

I have created two teams (Portal & Core) with there own area.

I have created a story and have set it to the root area.

To complete this story requires effort by both teams. I have created a task for the Portal team and set it to their area and another task for the Core team and have set it to their area.

If I look at the teams backlog I cannot see the task for them (I have set Show Parents).

Should I be able to split tasks of a story across multiple teams?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 173

Answers (2)

Eddie Chen - MSFT
Eddie Chen - MSFT

Reputation: 29966

No, there isn't any way to achieve this directly. But there is an alternative method for this, refer to the steps below for details:

  1. Go to the "Work\Area" settings of the root project and add a new child area for example "TwoTeams". enter image description here

  2. Go to the "Work\Area" settings of the child projects(Portal & Core) and add "CrossTeam\TwoTeams" area to them. enter image description here

  3. Assign the user story to "CrossTeam\TwoTeams" area.

Now you will see the User Story and Tasks on the teams backlog like following: enter image description here

Upvotes: 1

Daniel Mann
Daniel Mann

Reputation: 59020

Whether you should be able to is one thing, which is a broader topic. Whether you can is a different question, one with an exact, factual answer: You can't.

A user story is intended to be a discrete unit of work that is completed by a single cross-functional team. If you have multiple teams working on one user story, chances are good that the user story is too large and should be decomposed further.

Upvotes: 0

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