Thursday, July 10, 2008

Better Together Microsoft Project Plan + TFS.

Today, I learnt how to synchronize my MPP with TFS work items. I must confess that it is a delightful feature for any project manager!

You can access this productive feature from the Team menu of a MPP. Select Get Work Items and have your mpp populated with work items created in TFS. If you are not too happy with the field mappings, Microsoft provides a nice command line utility named TFSFieldMapping which resides in "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE". Follow the steps given here and here to customize the mappings for your project.

Simple :)

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