Why don't all plan items show up on my backlog plan?
I have a product backlog plan that shows 86 work items, but it should show way more and when I click on the link at the top of the plan that says "86 Open", the Work Items view will show 296 work items. That's correct, I should have 296 items in the backlog plan, but why don't they all show up in the plan?
The plan is for the team that is associated with the root category of the timeline where the backlog is an iteration of.
Thanks,
Troy
The plan is for the team that is associated with the root category of the timeline where the backlog is an iteration of.
Thanks,
Troy
Accepted answer
The problem was that the Enhancement type wasn't considered a "plan item". Once I edited the Process Configuration - Project Configuration > Configuration Data > Planning > Work Item Type Categorization and checked the checkbox for Enhancement, then they showed up in my plan.
Still unknown to me was that some Enhancements were showing up - maybe they were stories to begin with??
Also, Enhancement wasn't considered an Execution Item either, because I didn't have that filter checked in my plan. My type (that I created based off another team's project area) had some issues, I guess.
Still unknown to me was that some Enhancements were showing up - maybe they were stories to begin with??
Also, Enhancement wasn't considered an Execution Item either, because I didn't have that filter checked in my plan. My type (that I created based off another team's project area) had some issues, I guess.
3 other answers
Troy,
there are 2 reasons why WI show up on a plan or not :
there are 2 reasons why WI show up on a plan or not :
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Each plan uses 2 attributes to decide if a WI is part of the plan or not - "Filed against" and "planned for". You can check within your plan "Plan details" what is set for your plan
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Filters are applied (as described in my comment 1 and by Michael)
As you said there is no filter apllied so only reason #1 remains. So pls. check if all your WI belong to the team that owns the plan and if all your WI's are assoziated with the timeline that is reflected within your plan
Could it be that you applied a filter on the plan? Above the heading (Summary, ...) there is a text field. Left to the text field you can choose filters. Right to the text field you see how many work items are filtered out.