A single Enterprise Project connected with multiple Team Projects

Question

In my company, we have multiple Team Projects, one for each application maintained by the teams. These team projects contains only tasks related to the actual application. But sometime we have projects (at company level) that envolve changes to multiple applications.

So my question is if there's any way to create a relation between these distributed tasks to make they manageable from a single place, like a Enterprise Project? If this is not possible, can anyone suggest another approach to deal with this problem?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi Andre, in the current implementation of the feature you can map one team project to several enterprise projects but one enterprise project can only be mapped to only one team project. So if you want to have an enterprise project that allows you to see progress in more than one team project this is what you can do:

- You should create one enterprise project per team project you want to track and map them.

- You then create a master enterprise project and add the enterprise projects above as sub-projects.

Now from your master project you can monitor the progress on your sub-projects. There is one limitation when using master projects and that is that you won't be able, in the master project, to edit any of the tasks that are linked to TFS. If you want to edit them or add new tasks to be linked to TFS, you have to open the specific enterprise project and do your edits there.

Hopes this helps.

Federico

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Federico Kolliker Frers - MSFT

Answer 2

I found this solution for "A single Enterprise Project connected with multiple Team Projects". It seems good.

But I like to know whether do we have any updated feature in TFS 2012 for "A single Enterprise Project connected with multiple Team Projects"

Answer 3

Hi GBalu,

Unfortunately, there has been no updates to the mappings feature in TFS 2012. The above solution will continue to work.

Puvi