How to Find Actual Time Spent on a TASK in TFS 2013 by using the scrum template

Question

Hi! Currently we are using the TFS 2013 version with Scrum template this template contains only Remaining work measure for Task item and there is no
other option for getting the Actual time spent on particular Task and Bug having the option called Effort. How to find the Actual Time spent or Actual effort hours on particular TASK is it possible? In the similar way the Agile Template having the These options
like
1 Original Estimate
2 Completed Work
3 Remaining Work 
Can i use these 3 for Scrum Templete also?
We require the feature similarly like Atlasian JIRA product (JIRA consist the Actual time, Estimation Time and Log).

Answer 1

The Scrum template doesn't have these fields, tracking "spent time" is not really in line the philosophy of Scrum. it's tracking data that is not really useful anyway, unless you have to do some form of reporting. In which case you probably already
have a system to track time in at a higher level. 
The way TFS tracks time is very hard to use when you have a highly collaborative team, it would require you to create tasks for each person contributing to a task or constant re-asssigning of tasks to track the correct time spent. How else would you track
two peopleworking together? Pair programming, for example is a practice we at scrum.org highly promote. As well as pairing a tester and a developer up on applying ATDD when working on a story together. When a story is taking "too long" to move off
the board a technique called swarming is often applied, in which all team members help out to move the story along at a higher pace or to get it unstuck. These ways of workign are very, very, very hard to capture in TFS. But we think the threshold to use these
techniques should be very low. People should default to these ways of working and not be punished by bad functioning tooling.
As mentioned by Alexandr, you can extend the Scrum template with the same fields the MSF templates use, but I would not recommend it. Instead, if you need to track time, first consider doing it in different tool and at a different level than task. Maybe
feature, activity or product backlog item.
If you still want to track time, then a tool like
Imaginet Time Sheet can extend TFS in ways that make it a lot easier to track time against any work item.
As a last resort, consider
adding the fields from the MSF template, but I beg you to reconsider.
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