Customizing cards displayed on the boards

The Kanban board helps visualize, track, and share progress of the Backlog Items. The sprint board, on the other hand, helps visualize, track, and share the Team's progress in the sprint. Both the boards in the Web Portal are useful information radiators that are beneficial for the planning and tracking of work. Work Items are displayed as cards on the boards. Several new features have been added to the boards in TFS 2015 and Update 1 to make the cards even more actionable. In this recipe, you'll learn how to customize the cards to show additional Work Item fields and style the cards based on rules.

Getting ready

You need to be a Team Administrator or a member of the Team Project Administrator group to customize ...

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