About Enumerations

Enumerations are basically lists of values that can be selected and applied by end users as a value to some field of a Work Item. Typically, enumeration values appear as choices in a list control. The Severity field is a simple example. Values for this field are specified in an Enumeration, specifically in the configuration file named severity-enum.xml, accessible in the Work Items Enumerations topic of Administration. The values can be configured globally as defaults for new projects, and per project, where the values override the global configuration. Values can be applicable for all Work Item types in a given scope, or to one or more specific types.

Severity values for some type of Work Items in a software development project might be something like the following:

• Must have

• Should have

• Nice to have

• Later

• Never on this planet