VSTS Workflow / UX
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Coming from years of using TeamCity, Jenkins, Hudson, JIRA, BugZilla, YouTrak etc, etc, I've had to start using VSTS. I can't figure out if I'm being a luddite or it isn't that great a tool. I'm finding it a really unpleasant experience. It feels like it's in my way rather than helping me. The total lack of time booking to tasks is just plain odd. You can only leave time on a task or add remaining time, there's no facility to say I did 3 hours on this ... I'm just not groking it. It feels like there are so many screens and pages to delve into to do even the simplest of things. Am I alone? :(
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Coming from years of using TeamCity, Jenkins, Hudson, JIRA, BugZilla, YouTrak etc, etc, I've had to start using VSTS. I can't figure out if I'm being a luddite or it isn't that great a tool. I'm finding it a really unpleasant experience. It feels like it's in my way rather than helping me. The total lack of time booking to tasks is just plain odd. You can only leave time on a task or add remaining time, there's no facility to say I did 3 hours on this ... I'm just not groking it. It feels like there are so many screens and pages to delve into to do even the simplest of things. Am I alone? :(
You may have it set for the wrong paradigm. We have ours set for Scrum so it allows only an estimate of future time cost (and even that's unnecessary). If you want actual time cost you may have to tweak the configuration to allow that.