Work items are used to plan, assign, track, and more generally speaking, organize your work during a software development project. They help to better understand what needs to be done and give insights on the status of your project.
Some common work item usages are:
- Create, prioritize, and track user stories for application features
- Create and track development tasks necessary to implement user stories
- Create, prioritize, and track application bugs
- Determine application quality and application release dates
- Display progress of user stories, tasks, and bugs in a single Kanban board
As you have seen before, you can choose the work item process during VSTS project creation. This choice defines the standard work item types (WITs) available.
There are more than 14 WITs by default and you can create your own custom WITs for advanced scenarios. Most of the time, you will not need to create your own custom WITs.
Possible work item process choices are:
- Scrum, if your team...