Using Areas and Iterations in Team Foundation Server 2008
If you are using TFS 2005 or 2008, how do you user iterations and areas?
Do you create an area for specific parts of the application you are building?
Here is an interesting article on areas and how the TeamSystem team uses them:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlee/archive/2006/08/09/when-to-use-team-projects.aspx
But, i'm even more curious about iterations and I would be grateful if you could show me few concrete examples.
Do you create iterations based on milestones or based around certain functionality?
What happens when you finish v1, how do you manage v2 or updates to v1?
We are using MSF Agile template.
Answer
We use areas to represent product lines.
Since we use SCRUM, the iterations in TFS are used to define our release cycles, and the sprints within those release cycles.
Backlog items are assigned to release cycles and work items are assigned to eash sprint to ensure those backlog items are completed.
After a release, it is perfectly fine to add bug fixes/updates to the backlog while working the next version at the same time.
