TFS On Line UI
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Who designed this UI? Total unintuitive.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Who designed this UI? Total unintuitive.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I spent forever trying to figure out how to navigate to a specific area of the backlog. Finally I asked someone and the showed me the clear-as-mud link thingy at the top that drops down the list thingy. Why would they not use a hierarchical format, like maybe a collapsible tree on the left?? Then, in the Kanban board - the BLI's don't show their number, so when I'm given task "BLI #1234", I have to type the number into search just to find it.:mad::mad:
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Who designed this UI? Total unintuitive.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Who designed this UI? Total unintuitive.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Whenever I see things like "[summat] on-line", "as a service", or "cloud-based", I tend to turn and walk the other way.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Who designed this UI? Total unintuitive.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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JMK-NI wrote:
total shambles
Just the UI? :doh:
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Weird. I've never had a problem with it.
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Who designed this UI? Total unintuitive.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Probably the same people who designed the on-prem version. It is totally counter-intuitive and takes forever to find simple stuff. Having come from a job where I used the Atlassian suite (Jira, Bamboo etc) I've found the TFS suite to be torture. Sadly the group I joined have been using it so long something akin to Stockholm syndrome has taken root. You can show them how much better the experience could be using different tools but they get a panicked look and say "but it's not Microsoft". Don't get me wrong, I like C# and Visual Studio but their ALM suite is stuck in the early 2000s when RTC was the biggest player in that space and waterfall was "the" project management standard.
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Probably the same people who designed the on-prem version. It is totally counter-intuitive and takes forever to find simple stuff. Having come from a job where I used the Atlassian suite (Jira, Bamboo etc) I've found the TFS suite to be torture. Sadly the group I joined have been using it so long something akin to Stockholm syndrome has taken root. You can show them how much better the experience could be using different tools but they get a panicked look and say "but it's not Microsoft". Don't get me wrong, I like C# and Visual Studio but their ALM suite is stuck in the early 2000s when RTC was the biggest player in that space and waterfall was "the" project management standard.
That's funny, I'm having a similar experience, but made the opposite assessment. My company has been using TFS for many years, and one of our newer people has brought Jira in for his team and I find it incomprehensible. Besides the UI looking visually outdated in Jira, I find the workflow is incomprehensible. I do see the same workflow issues with the TFS web site that are being highlighted in this thread, but they are minor compared to trying to figure out how to navigate Jira. I think it has a lot to do with what you are used to, I'm sure the reason you get the panicked look is because they are used to the tool they are using today.
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I spent forever trying to figure out how to navigate to a specific area of the backlog. Finally I asked someone and the showed me the clear-as-mud link thingy at the top that drops down the list thingy. Why would they not use a hierarchical format, like maybe a collapsible tree on the left?? Then, in the Kanban board - the BLI's don't show their number, so when I'm given task "BLI #1234", I have to type the number into search just to find it.:mad::mad:
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Hi Coder for Hire, I'm sure you've found this but last week MS seems to have sorted one of your problems: https://www.visualstudio.com/news/2015-apr-10-vso[^]
Nice, thanks!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is