Kyle and I are running into a small problem with Team Foundation Server when it comes to assigning tasks.
In a typical software development company, a Project Manager receives a bug or feature request. He then assigns associated tasks to his developers. Once the developer is finished, the task is re-assigned to the PM for review.
At EnGraph, things are a bit more collaborative. Partly because of our size, but also because we like to manage support and development from a team perspective.
Back to our problem. We really want to be able to assign a task to a group that contains myself and Kyle. Both of us would get email alerts, both of us would be able to manage the task, it would show up in our respective "My Work Items" and either of us could close it. This way we can create tasks that need to be done, but either of us could handle. I originally created a ParaPlan Developers active directory group, but was unable to assign a task to it. I know that we can set permissions so that he can view my tasks and vice versa, but we want to maintain individual tasks as well.
I'm going to create a new user called ParaPlan_Stud and we will assign common tasks to it. We will change our "My Work Items" query to view items assigned to @Me or assigned to ParaPlan_Stud. We can use the bisubscribe tool to create email alerts for this user to go to both of us.
I don't know if it would be useful for bigger companies to have the ability to assign a task to a group rather than an individual, but it would certainly help us.
I'll try this for a couple of weeks and see how it goes.
Update: Here is what we did. It's been working well so far.