TeamCompanion is a first class Team Foundation Server (TFS) client within Outlook. In addition to the standard TFS client features, TeamCompanion leverages Outlook features providing unique capabilities that lead to better collaboration and communication among project stakeholders.
TeamCompanion has rich support for Scrum. Here is the list of some of related features: Product/Sprint Backlog UI, Support for Teams, real time statistics and Burndown chart, Velocity chart, Drag-and-drop support for reordering and assignment, quick add PBI UI and many more.
2. Agenda
~ TeamCompanion – TFS and Outlook
~ Scrum with TeamCompanion
Product Backlog & Planning the Project
Sprint Backlog & Planning a Sprint
Running a Sprint
Burndown & Progress tracking
Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation
3. TeamCompanion
The Best TFS client for MS Outlook
Outlook TFS
• Emails • Work Items
• Appointments • Work Item Queries
• Reminders • Reports
• Tasks • Builds
• Documents
Provides for better collaboration,
increased productivity in daily tasks
and efficient Agile Project Management.
4. Fully Featured TFS Client
~ Full support with powerful enhancements
~ Work Item Management
One click “Add”
One click “Done”
Work Item Queries (flat/hierarchical)
~ Reports and Sharepoint Documents
~ Agile Project Management
Offline work and „What if” analysis
Clever graphical UI with Drag’n’Drop support
15. Planning the Project with TeamCompanion
Tools and Features
~ Fully featured Product Backlog UI
Product Backlog list
Velocity Diagram
How many PBI-s were implemented in previous
sprints (measured in Story Points)?
Embedded real-time statistics
~ Actions
Quickly reorder PBIs using Drag’n’Drop
Easily add new PBIs with one click
16. Product Backlog Product Backlog view
PM
node in
Outlook
tree
17. Product Backlog
Velocity
chart
Quickly
add new
PBIs
Product
PBIs estimated in Capacity per
Backlog
Story Points Sprint
18. Product Backlog
New PBIs
created by
Product
Owner
Save New PBIs added
changes
23. Agenda
~ TeamCompanion
~ Scrum with TeamCompanion
Scrum Overview
Product Backlog & Planning the Project
Sprint Backlog & Planning a Sprint
Running a Sprint
Burndown & Progress tracking
Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation
24. Sprint
Daily
Standup
Potentially
Shippable
Increment
Product Sprint
Backlog Backlog
•Sprint Backlog UI
•Team Support
•Capacity Planning
•D’n’D assignment of PBIs
and Tasks
• Product Backlog UI
• Velocity Diagram
Scrum with
• D’n’D ordering of PBIs TeamCompanion
25. Planning a Sprint with TeamCompanion
Tools and Features
~ Fully featured Sprint Backlog UI
Sprint Backlog list
Support for managing Teams
Capacity planning
Embedded real-time statistics
~ Actions
Quickly assign PBIs and Tasks using Drag’n’Drop
Easily decompose PBIs into Tasks with one click
26. Sprint Backlog Select a Sprint
Capacity per
Team Member
Sprint
Backlog
Capacity per Sprint
31. Agenda
~ TeamCompanion
~ Scrum with TeamCompanion
Scrum Overview
Product Backlog & Planning the Project
Sprint Backlog & Planning a Sprint
Running a Sprint
Burndown & Progress tracking
Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation
32. Sprint
Daily
Standup
Potentially
Shippable
Increment
Product Sprint
Backlog Backlog •Burndown Chart
•Remaining Capacity Charts
•Full-text search for Work Items
• Sprint Backlog UI
• Product Backlog UI
• Velocity Diagram
• Team Support Scrum with
• Capacity Planning
• D’n’D ordering of PBIs
• D’n’D assignment of PBIs and Tasks
TeamCompanion
33. Running a Sprint with TeamCompanion
Tools and Features
~ Integrated UI for burndown and progress
tracking
Sprint Backlog UI
Real-time Burndown chart
Real-time Remaining Capacity charts
Full-text search for Work Items
Various filtering options
~ Actions
Quickly reassign PBIs and Tasks using Drag’n’Drop
Update remaining/completed work
34. Running a Sprint Burndown chart
refreshes in real time
Remaining capacity
per team member