In part
1 of our series we went over the premise of using Team Foundation Server
(TFS) and Crystal Reports to create reports for Agile Projects. This included
the basics of how the agile process can work. Part 1 included some basics
of how the agile project might work. That article went over how to utilize
standard Team Foundation Server process templates with your agile process, to
help produce reports to help manage your projects.
In the 2nd part of the series, we covered 2 reports: A
Story details report to allow you to print out your stories to post up in your
war room and a current iteration report to report the status of your current
iteration, and a breakdown report.
In the 3rd part of this series, we will explain how to
create a burndown chart utilizing TFS and Crystal Reports. We will explain the
Burndown chart report, then delve into how we create that report, first looking
at the SQL to run against the TFS database, then how to create the Crystal
Report.