Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team Services cloud-based application lifecycle management service is being fitted with improvements in team alignment and deployment, mobile access, Git repos, and Node.js capabilities.
The enterprise agile Delivery Plans feature previewed this week helps align teams by overlaying several backlogs onto a delivery schedule, or iterations. Users can tailor plans to include the backlogs, teams, and work items they want to view, and interactive plans allow for adjustments as projects proceed. Featured as part of sprint 112 of Team Services , the Delivery Plans extension is available at the Visual Studio Marketplace.
“This feature is designed to enable you to look across teams and see how work is aligned,” Microsoft’s Brian Harry, vice president for cloud developer services, said. “This is still a very early preview, and we have lots of plans to continue to evolve it, but there’s enough functionality there for you to try it and start giving feedback.
