Automate Remaining Work enables a calculated field for computing and storing Remaining Work on your work items.

Requirements

The extension has been tested and verified on Node v12.0.0 and above.

Building the extention

From the project root, run the following terminal commands:

npm install         # Install node dependencies
npm run build       # Compile the source code
npm run package     # Package the extension .vsix

This will produce the .vsix package file that you can upload to the Azure Marketplace or install on your on-prem extension gallery.

Setup

1. Navigate to the "Auto Remaining Work Settings" hub on the collection settings admin experience.
2. Change the default fields if required.

Features

Auto calculated Remaining Work field on the form

• Remaining Work is automatically updated when form is loaded.
• Remaining Work is automatically updated when the Original Estimate or Effort fields are updated.

Recalculate Remaining Work context menu item

• Update Remaining Work for all selected work items on the backlog or query grid.

Settings hub

• Specify which fields are used for Remaining Work, Original Estimate and Effort .
• Specify if remaining work can be negative or not.
• Specify if use float numbers or just integers.

Support

Because this extension requires the new work item form, it is only supported on Azure DevOps and the next version of TFS 2018 and above.