Easy decomposition of work items

Decompose allows you to quickly break down work items into sub-hierarchies.

• Create hierarchies of work items without waiting
• Should it be a Task or is it big enough for a Story? Promote/Demote work items easily between different hierarchy levels
• Full support for keyboard shortcuts. Just like your favorite editor (VS Code), you never have to leave the keyboard
• Iterate on titles before commiting

Example: Starting a Sprint

When you start to work on a feature and you want to quickly break it down into User Stories and Tasks you can use Excel, manually create work items, or the New Item panel on the Backlog. This all works, but isn't as convenient as it could be.

With Decompose you can easily define hierarchies, change work items between levels, and finally create actual work items with a single click.

Version History

• 1.1.1 - Decompose now correctly works with customized backlogs and work item types
• 1.0.1 - Added support for TFS "15" RC2 and higher (note, it will not work on any version prior to that, even if it might let you install)
• 0.0.5 - Fixes a bug that prevented Internet Explorer users from saving

On Premise/Team Foundation Server

Many people have asked why this extension is only available for Team Services: it relies on APIs that will only be available in the next major version of Team Foundation Server. After release, I will provide a package of this extension that can be installed on an on premise Team Foundation Server, until then I can only support Team Services.

Code

The code is available at https://github.com/cschleiden/vsts-quick-decompose.