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Manually sort "Assigned to Me" view in Work items
As Features, User Stories, and Tasks are assigned to me I use the "Assigned to me" view within the Work items pane to see all items I have ownership of. The issue is that I am limited to sorting by data columns listed on those items. This makes it difficult to get my top priority at the top of the view and causes me to re-read cards that are lower priority because I don't have a way to sort them for my personal needs.
I would like the ability to drag and drop my items based on my personal priority and not that ranking information saved on the card.
Hello, holmes04 what kind of "view" are you using? Boards, Backlog, Sprints or Queries? When using Backlogs or Boards, ADO keeps the priority listing when showing the work items:
backlog
boards
The query "assigned to me" does not keep priority ordering by default. I would go for the backlog/boards option, you can easily drag and drop to different sprints or change the priority order.
Unaihuete the issue with that is that it moves the priority of that feature for the whole company, not just me. There are times when a low priority project for the company might be a high priority project for me.
The issue might be that I am assigned items at all 3 levels (features, user stories, and tasks). Within our company features are actively prioritized by our scrum master, but User Stories and tasks can be freely prioritized by the assigned individuals.
I am really looking for a way to see all 3 levels and prioritize them as needed with respect to eachother, but not impacting the corporate ranking.
I am sorry, but do not think the product is designed for individual/person-based planning, tools are given for team/project planning (which normally is aligned with individual) 😞 Scrum masters normally prioritize features, decompose them into user stories with the help of engineering teams, and define priority/effort for user stories too, so that they can be distributed in Sprint (based on priority/effort). All the default views on ADO are based on team planning/prioritizing (backlog/boards/sprints). The only option to nicely see them all based on feature priority (company):
The other option is using Power Automate (office 365) or Logic Apps (azure) to automate the "copy" of those items and status to your own Azure DevOps Project. Honestly, I would never do it, it is over-engineering.
