Managing Your Projects & Teams

using Azure DevOps Boards

Benjamin Day
TRAINER | COACH | DEVELOPER

@benday www.benday.com
Overview Project management with Azure DevOps
- Azure Boards

What is a Work Item?

Demos
 Deeper Dive into Project Management

“DevOps Mindset
and DevOps
Metrics”
“Planning and
Tracking Your
Team's Work”

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/devops-skills-developers-visual-studio-tfs-2017
 Deep Dive on Scrum

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/scrum-master-skills
Project Management with
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps helps you to
manage and track your
work.
Azure Boards
Work Item Tracking
Work Item
Choose Your Process Template
The process template determines the
initial structure of the project.
à Which work item types?
 Basic
Scrum
Process Agile
Templates
CMMI
Customized
 Issue
- Requirement to be implemented
Work Item - Bug to be fixed
Types in the Task
Basic Process - Task related to an issue
Template Epic
- Container for multiple issues
 Product Backlog Item
Task
Work Item Bug
Types in the Impediment
Scrum Process
Test Case
Template
Feature
Epic
 User Story
Task
Work Item Bug
Types in the Issue
Agile Process
Test Case
Template
Feature
Epic
 Minimal differences
- Status values
- Fields

Scrum Template Requirements

vs. - Scrum à Product Backlog Item
- Agile à User Story
Agile Template
Impediments
- Scrum à Impediment
- Agile à Issue
Work Item Type Definition
(WITD)
 List of all data fields for the type
Description for how it’s displayed on the
screen
Work Item Type Rules related to the data
Definition All WITs have common fields:
(WITD) - ex. Title, Assigned To, ID

Plus, the fields specific to that WITD

WITDs can be customized
Azure DevOps helps you to
manage and track your
work.
 Create / manage requirements
Manage and track tasks for each
Typical Work requirement
Item / Project Assign tasks to team members
Management Track the bugs / defects
Tasks Track status
Visualize the overall state of the project
Enough talk.
Demo
Scrum with Azure DevOps
Manage a Product Backlog
“Kanban Board” / ”Backlog Board”
Demo Scrum with Azure DevOps
Multi-level Product Backlogs
- Portfolio Management

Tags
Demo
Scrum with Azure DevOps
Velocity
- Predicting the future
- Forecasting
Demo Scrum with Azure DevOps
Plan a Scrum Sprint
Team capacity
Plus…
- A hidden feature for QA test cases
Demo Scrum with Azure DevOps
Visualizing progress
Scrum Board
Burndown chart
Project Dashboard
Burndown Chart
Demo
Work Item Queries
Work Item Charts
Project Dashboard
Summary
Project management with Azure DevOps
What is a Work Item?
Demos
 Next up:
QA Testing and
Test Case Management
with Azure DevOps