Creating Iterations in VSTS

Click on the gear icon in the top right corner of VSO

VSTS dashboard with gear icon highlighted — Accessing VSTS settings by clicking the gear icon.

Then click on Iterations

VSTS settings menu with Iterations option highlighted — Selecting Iterations from the VSTS settings menu.

You should now see your Iterations for this Team Project

VSTS Iterations page showing existing iterations — VSTS Iterations page displaying the current iteration structure.

From here you can add New child iterations to an existing iteration

VSTS Iterations page - New child iteration option — Adding a new child iteration in VSTS.

VSTS Iterations page - New child iteration dialog — Entering details for a new child iteration.

VSTS Iterations page showing newly added child iteration — Newly added child iteration in the VSTS iteration structure.

Set Iteration dates

VSTS Iterations page - Set dates option for an iteration — Setting start and end dates for an iteration.

VSTS Iterations page - Date picker for iteration start and end dates — Choosing start and end dates for the iteration.

VSTS Iterations page with updated iteration dates — Iteration dates updated and displayed in VSTS.

Move sprints around with drag and drop

VSTS Iterations page - Drag and drop functionality for reordering iterations — Reordering iterations using drag and drop in VSTS.

and select which Iterations are currently visible for this team (not Team Project)

VSTS Iterations page - Selecting visible iterations for the team — Choosing which iterations are visible for the current team.

You can see this updating if you look at the work tab. You can also add new Iterations in line with the currently selected one by clicking on New, fill in sprint details as before and click Save and close

VSTS Iterations page - Adding a new iteration in line — Adding a new iteration at the same level as the selected one.

All the operations mentioned above are also available from a context menu by right clicking on any iteration or clicking the little arrow to the left of the Iteration

VSTS Iterations page - Context menu for an iteration — Context menu options for managing iterations in VSTS.

And as you can see in the context menu you can set the team's backlog iteration, just right click on a iteration and choose Set as team's backlog iteration

VSTS Iterations page - Set as team's backlog iteration option — Setting an iteration as the team's backlog iteration.

Notice how when you do this all iterations outside the tree of the backlog iteration are "unchecked" and not available for inclusion into the teams backlog iterations

VSTS Iterations page showing effect of setting backlog iteration — Iterations outside the backlog iteration's tree are deselected.

This will reflect in the work tab as well because only checked iterations are shown

Creating Iterations in VSTS

Connecting Test Manager to VSTS

Connecting Visual Studio to VSTS

Creating your first VSTS Team Project