Setting up Teams and Environments

Introduction

"Scrum for Team System: Teams & Environments" helps you manage the global lists in your Scrum Projects. In release 2.0, the Project Portal - "Team Project Administration" allows you to maintain list data for two fields available in Scrum Work Item Types:

• "Team" (“Owned By” Field in the Product Backlog Work Item Type).
• "Environment" (“Environment” Field in the Bug Work Item Type).

The "Team" field should contain a list of the names of the teams you have working on your project in a particular Sprint. The "Environment" field should contain a list of a list of environments you have for your project, for example "Development", "Test", "UAT", "Staging" and "Production".

How to use "Scrum for Team System: Teams & Environments"

1. Open the project portal and select the Team Project Administration tab

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2. Enter the required Environments and Team names by using the text fields and adjacent "Add" and "Remove" buttons.

3. Once you are happy with the lists, click the "Save Lists" button to commit the changes.

4. You have now created new global lists within Team Foundation Server - to access them you will need to refresh Team Explorer on your client machines.