Shared Resources and Searching Across Projects with TFS

Projects in Visual Studio are a great way to group items and, similar to builds, you can pull information from different projects with your queries. Don't let anyone tell you this isn't so. Our organization almost implemented a single project for everything we do at the advice of an expensive consultant.  We reconsidered and out at the last minute on that plan. Whew! Saved. After a year and a half, we're all still glad we made the decision. We have 3 to 4 projects going on at once with teams of 4 to 20 people. The projects are usually wildly disparate, so it's nice to be able to only see one project at a time - most of the time. Here's how you do it:


Remove this: Team Project = @Project from your query.

Now you can see across the organization. You can see where your shared resources are spending time - and if that other project manager is using up all the resources [shaking my fist ineffectively]. You can query bug rates vs. development hours across the organization. With Team System 2010, there is another level of grouping for projects so this should only get more powerful.