It usually took me hours to add all tasks for my team for the next sprint in TFS. Existing UIs for this purpose were too sl-o-o-o-w, both built-in Team Explorer and Web Access (I mean Web Access for TFS 2010; 2012 is better in this context). The most annoying thing is that I usually need to specify just title and estimate for tasks but have to wait until the whole complex task entry form is loaded and then closed. I also found bulk work items generation by means of Excel is not that convenient for addition of hierarchical (parent-child) data. So I made a small utility for this purpose. Details and source code are here: https://github.com/marss19/bulk-task-generation-in-tfs How to use The main form is divided in 3 parts: main menu: you can select a TFS project here, specify an area and/or an iteration to filter displayed work items and select a template for tasks creation. The default template containing all required fields is created automatically for each proje