Add Default Tasks

Stop typing the same tasks into every user story. Add your team's standard set of tasks to a user story in two clicks, right from the sprint taskboard.

How it works

1. On the sprint taskboard, open the ⋯ menu of a user story card.
2. Choose Add Defaulttasks....
3. Tick the tasks you need and click Add.

The tasks are created as children of the story and appear on the board right away.

Features

• Inherits Area and Iteration: every new task gets the Area Path and Iteration Path of its user story, so it lands in the right sprint.
• No duplicates: tasks that already exist under the story are marked already exists and skipped, so running it twice is safe.
• Optional assignment: assign all new tasks to the story's assignee with a single checkbox.
• Works beyond the taskboard: also available on Kanban boards, backlogs and query results. Select several items to add the tasks to all of them at once.
• Any process: works with User Stories (Agile), Product Backlog Items (Scrum) and Requirements (CMMI).
• Light and dark theme support.

Your team's list, per project

Click Edit list in the dialog to set up the default tasks for your project: add, rename, remove and reorder tasks, and choose which ones are pre-selected. The list is shared with everyone in the project and takes effect immediately, with no redeployment needed.

Requirements

• Azure DevOps Services, or Azure DevOps Server 2020 or newer
• Permission to create work items in the project

Feedback and source

Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue on GitHub.