Specifying days instead of hours in Team Foundation Server 2010 tasks

Is there a way to change the tasks in Team Foundation Server 2010 to use days instead of hours?

I feel like I have to do a lot of micro-management by using hours instead of da开发者_JAVA技巧ys.

You can change that field by doing the following. (I'm fairly sure this requires Power Tools to be installed.)

Open Visual Studio. Click Tools -> Process Editor -> Work Item Types -> Open WIT from Server Navigate to your collection/project and open the task template.

This will open a new window containing all the information about the task template. To change the hours into days, click on the Layout tab located in upper left corner. From there, click on the option titled "Group - Effort (Hours)". Change the "Label" attribute to be "Effort (Days)".

Now those fields will be shown as being listed in Days instead of hours. By default, those fields are saved as doubles. I would recommend changing them to integers unless you plan on being that precise. Below I'll tell you how to change them.

Go back to the Fields tab. Locate the "Remaining Work" item. Double click it to edit it. Change the Type field to be integer instead of double. Repeat the last few steps with the "Original Estimate" and "Completed Work" items.

That should be everything, I hope it helps.

You do need to change the reports. Although it is just the labels and parameter names, the figures used are the same