Release dashboard (Scrum)

The Release dashboard shows how much work remains in the release and how quickly your team is working through the product backlog. It displays the Release Burndown report, along with additional charts and quick access links.

To view the dashboard, choose Go to project portal from the home page in Team Web Access (TWA) or the Documents page in Team Explorer.

Requirements

• To access the dashboard, your team project must have a project portal enabled and be associated with a SharePoint site.

• To view the Release Burndown chart, the team project collection that contains your team project must be provisioned with SQL Server Reporting Services. This report is not available if  Reports does not appear when you open Team Explorer and expand your team project node. 

• To view the project portal, you must also be a member of the Visitors or Members group for the portal. To modify, copy, or customize a dashboard, you must be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned the Members permissions in SharePoint Products for the team project. For more information, see Add users to team projects.

• To open a work item or work item query, you must be a member of the Readers group or your View work items in this node permission must be set to Allow. To create or modify a work item, you must be a member of the Contributors group or your Edit work items in this node permission must be set to Allow.

Data displayed in the dashboard

You can use the Release dashboard to understand how much progress the team is making to complete PBIs. To learn about the Team System Web Parts that are displayed on the dashboard, refer to the following illustration and table.

Web Part	Data displayed
	Shows how much work remains at the start of each sprint in a release. This chart doesn’t appear when the server that hosts Analysis Services for the team project is unavailable. The source of the raw data is your product backlog. Each sprint that has been assigned to the team project or team appears along the horizontal axis. The vertical axis indicates the sum of all effort of all active backlog items at the start of each sprint. As the team updates the state of backlog items to Done, the effort remaining decreases. The amount of estimated effort on the vertical axis is in whatever unit that your scrum team has decided to use (for example, story points, size, or hours). See also Release Burndown.
	Excel list of active PBIs.
	List of upcoming events derived from a SharePoint Web Part.
	Count of new, approved, committed, or done work items. You can open the list of work items by choosing each number.
	List of recent builds and their status. You can view more details about a specific build by choosing it. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web Part. Legend: : Build not started : Build in progress : Build succeeded : Build failed : Build stopped : Build partially succeeded For more information, see Run, monitor, and manage builds.
	List of the most recent check-ins. You can view more details about a specific check-in by choosing it. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web Part. For more information, see Develop code and manage pending changes. Note If you use Git for version control, check-in data is not available.

Using the dashboard toolbar

From the dashboard toolbar, you can create a work item, copy the current dashboard, or open a work item based on its ID.

Using the work item toolbar

The following toolbar is associated with the Excel web part that displays a list of PBIs.

Use this toolbar to perform one of these tasks:

• Create a task, bug, test case, or other work item.

• Refresh the items in the list from the query that it references.

• Add or remove columns, and change the sort order of the items in the list.

• Run the query behind the work item list.

• Copy work items to the Clipboard.

• Send work items to Office Outlook. 

• Create a linked work item.