Tag Archives: Excel

Printing work items with Team Foundation Server

June 30, 2014 by Rene van Osnabrugge 7 Comments

With the introduction of TFS 2012 Web Access we lost the possibility to print work items from the web. The experience wasn’t great in the first place but now it disappeared. Also in Visual Studio we do not have great printing possibilities. For some teams this is a big issue. They like TFS but also […]

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Tips & Tricks, Work Item Management
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Managing your sprint backlog easier with Excel

May 13, 2011 by Rene van Osnabrugge 11 Comments

In my previous post I talked about the Excel workbooks in combination with the MS Scrum template. Excel is a great help in quickly organizing and editing your work items. It is however kind of hard to see a good status overview of your work in the current sprint. Main problem is, that Parent Items […]

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ALM, Process Templates, Scrum, TFS
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Use the MSF Agile workbooks in the MS Scrum template

May 4, 2011 by Rene van Osnabrugge 9 Comments

The MSF Agile 5.0 Process Template in Team Foundation Server 2010 comes with a great set of Excel workbooks. These workbooks allow you maintain your Product and Iteration Backlog with Excel. The workbooks contain a set of macros that are very useful, because they transform information from the workbook in a visual appealing way. You […]

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Articles, Process Templates, Scrum
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The Team Tab has disappeared from the Ribbon in Excel (or error TF80012)

March 10, 2011 by Rene van Osnabrugge 3 Comments

Sometimes it happens that because of a crash or unknown issue the Team Tab in Excel disappears. Usually you will notice this, because you get an error when you try to open a excel sheet with TFS data. The reason is that this Add-In is disabled. To make it appear again do the following Start […]

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Clients, Troubleshooting
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