Voting Extension

Democratize your backlog with Voting Extension. Ask your stakeholders to vote for their favorite backlog items. Align your work on your stakeholders' needs.

Quick Steps

1. Create a new voting
2. Specify the title and the description (optional) why the actual voting is necessary
3. Decide whether multiple voting per item is allowed
4. Decide between backlog-based vs. query-based voting
5. Click on save
   • Voting starts
   • Each team member can now vote on the included work items
6. [For backlog-based voting] Apply the (interim) results to the backlog

Changelog

For more detailed release notes please refer to our release blog posts.

• Version "1.2.19349.1"
  • Introduction of voting types: backlog-based and query-based votings
  • Limit votes per work item (in addition to limit per user)
  • Support for fixed voting period: start and end date for a voting can be configured
  • Summary of finished voting on admin page with possibility to copy to HTML
  • Icon in vertical navigation
  • Moved apply to backlog option to report page for terminated votings
  • Bugfixes
    • Solves problem that terms of use can not be confirmed
    • "Assigned to" is displayed correctly

Known Limitations

• The extension is only supported in Chrome.

Additional Links

• AIT-Homepage
• AIT TFS-Tools

Privacy Information

Please note that when using the Voting Extension personal and confidential information is only saved in your Azure DevOps account using the built-in Azure DevOps data storage service "Team Services ExtensionDataService". You find more information about that service at Microsoft Docs: Azure DevOps Data storage.

We also collect some telemetry data using Application Insights ("AI"). As part of AI telemetry collection the standard AI telemetry data (Microsoft Docs: Data collection, retention and storage in Application Insights) as well as the (Azure DevOps/TFS) account name and Team Project id is tracked.

For general information on data protection, please refer to our data protection declaration.