In the last post we ended up with a list of tags a user added last to a work item. The next step is now to keep an MRU list with tags from earlier sessions and update it when new tags are added.

I often find myself adding the same tags over and over to work items. Example: While we use features to group our user stories, it is often convenient to also add a tag per feature, since these can show up on the cards on the different boards, making it easy to see what belongs to which feature:

Last year Visual Studio Team Services (formerly known as Visual Studio Online) released support for extensions. There are some great samples on GitHub and a growing number of finished extensions in the marketplace. One of my published extensions is Estimate, a planning poker implementation for VSTS.

Quick update: a few weeks ago I left Germany and Microsoft Consulting Services and moved to the US. I’m now a developer on the Visual Studio Online team in Redmond, WA.

If you stumble across the following error message with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC: