Select backlog navigation levels for your team
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Each team can determine the backlog levels that they use. For example, feature teams may wish to only focus on their product backlog, while a management team may choose to only show feature and epics (the two default portfolio backlogs). You configure which backlog levels appear from your team settings dialog.
If you need additional portfolio backlogs, see the following articles based on the process model you use:
- Inheritance: Customize your backlogs or boards for a process
- On-premises XML: Add portfolio backlogs.
For an overview of process models, see Customize your work tracking experience.
If you need additional portfolio backlogs, see Add portfolio backlogs.
Note
The team setting for choosing which backlog levels is available for TFS 2015 and later versions. For TFS 2013, the Feature portfolio backlog level is enabled for all teams.
Prerequisites
- To configure team settings, you must be added as a team administrator or be a member of the Project Administrators or Project Collection Administrators group. See Set permissions at the project- or collection-level.
Set your team's preferences for backlog levels
Because this setting affects all team members' view of the team backlogs and boards, you must be a team administrator to change the setting. Changing the setting is disabled if you're not a team administrator. To get added as a team administrator, see Add team administrator.
You can change the setting from a backlog or board view. Here we show how to change it from the board view.
Open your Kanban board. If you're not a team admin, get added as one. Only team and project admins can customize the Kanban board.
Select Configure team settings
to configure the board and set general team settings.
Choose Backlogs and check the boxes of those backlog levels you want your team to manage.
When done with your changes, choose Save and close.
To see the changes, open or refresh your team's backlog.
Open your Kanban board. If you're not a team admin, get added as one. Only team and project admins can customize the Kanban board.
Select Configure team settings
to open the settings dialog.
Choose Backlogs and check the boxes of those backlog levels you want your team to manage.
When done with your changes, choose Save.
To see the changes, open or refresh your team's backlog.
Requires TFS 2015.1 or later version.
From your web portal, choose Settings
to open the administration page.
From Overview, choose the team whose settings you want to configure, and then choose Settings.
Check the boxes of those backlog levels you want your team to manage.
To see the changes, open or refresh your team's backlog.