Essentials on Azure DevOps Services

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Introduction and Logistics
• Your trainer
• You
o Your role
o Your company
o Your experience in this technology area
o Your goals for this workshop

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Module 2: Projects

Module Overview

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Overview
• Hierarchy of Azure DevOps Services
• Projects
• Understanding Teams
• Process
• Team Explorer

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Module 2: Projects

Lesson 1: Hierarchy of Azure

DevOps Services

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Overview
• Hierarchy
• Organizations

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Hierarchy

• Azure DevOps Services

• Organization(s)
• Project(s)
• Teams
• Boards
• Repos
• Pipelines
• Test Plans
• Artifacts

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Hierarchy (continued)

Organizations Projects Teams

Team A
Project1
Team B

Org1
Project2 Team C

…
Azure DevOps
Services
Team D
Org2 Project1
…
…

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Organizations

Container for related projects

Can be organized as

• Business divisions
• Regional divisions
• Other organizational structure

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Demo 1: Hierarchy of Azure
DevOps Services and
Organizations

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Lesson Knowledge Check
1. Describe the hierarchy of Azure DevOps Services.
2. True/False: An Organization can contain multiple projects.

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Lesson Summary
• In this lesson, you learned about:
o Hierarchy of Azure DevOps Services
o Organizations

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Module 2: Projects

Lesson 2: Projects

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Overview
• What is a Project?
• Creating Projects
• Project Concepts
• Scoping Projects
• Project Settings
• Renaming Projects

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What is a Project?

Central point for your team to develop a product

Logical container for a development effort

• Work Items
• Repos
• Pipelines
• Test Plans
• Artifacts
• Security boundary

Created from a process

• Examples: Basic, Scrum, Agile, CMMI

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Creating Projects

Tools:
• Team Explorer for Visual Studio (Will open Web Portal)
• Web Portal
Permissions:
• Member of the Project Collection Administrators Group
• (or) Create new projects permission set to Allow

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Creating Projects

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Projects

Generally scoped per team, application, or version

Created with a default team

Git and Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) in the same project

Can be renamed

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Scoping Projects

Generally (but do not Create a new project There is no one-size-

have to be) scoped: when: fits-all approach
• Per application • You radically change • Projects are bigger
• Per release the process than you think
• Per team

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Project Settings

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Renaming Projects

• Projects can be renamed

• All the version control paths,
work items, queries, and other
project artifacts will be updated
to reflect the new name

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Demo 2: Project Settings

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Lesson Knowledge Check
• What is a Project?
• What tool would you need to create a new Project?

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Lesson Summary
• In this lesson, you learned about:
o Projects
o Creating Projects
o Scoping Projects
o Project Settings
o Renaming Projects

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Module 2: Projects

Lesson 3: Understanding Teams

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Overview
• Azure DevOps Services and Teams
• Team Areas
• Team Iterations

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Azure DevOps Services and Teams
• Default team created with each new project
• Teams allow you to:
• Manage product backlog
• Use a virtual task board
• View burndown and velocity
• Divide up work
• Create new teams and add team members using the web portal

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Team Areas

Specify what your team will

be working on

Default area is the root

node and cannot be deleted

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Team Iterations
• Specify when your team will perform specific work items
• Start and end dates
• Default iterations available as part of project creation
• Capacity for team members can be defined

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Demo 3: Team Areas and
Iterations

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Lesson Knowledge Check
• How can you create new Teams?
• What are Team Areas?
• True/False: Default area can be deleted
• What are Team Iterations?

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Lesson Summary
• In this lesson, you learned about:
o Azure DevOps Services and Teams
o Team Areas
o Team Iterations

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Module 2: Projects

Lesson 4: Process

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Overview
• What is a Process?
• Default Processes
• Process Customization

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What is a Process?

Contains all the initial

Can be refined over
artifacts and
time as your
Blueprint for projects workflows that define
development process
your development
matures
process

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Default Processes

Basic

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Default Processes

Agile

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Default Processes

Scrum

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Default Processes

CMMI

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Process Customization
• System processes —Basic, Scrum, Agile, and CMMI—which are locked from being changed

• Inherited processes, which you can customize and that inherit definitions from the system process from
which they were created
o System processes are owned and updated periodically by Microsoft
o Any updates made to a system process will automatically update your inherited process

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Process Customization
• Inherited processes are customizable

o Add a new field to an existing work item type (WIT)

o Modify the picklist of values for a field
o Change the workflow
States, Reasons, Transitions, Actions of an existing WIT
o Edit the layout of a work item form
o Add or remove a work item type
o Change the process configuration or
defaults associated with Agile tools

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Track Process Related Changes
• New event added to the audit logs to help better track process related changes.
• An event will be logged whenever the values on a picklist are changed. Changes to picklist fields are
usually the most common changes made to a process. With this new event, organization admins can better
track when and who made changes to those fields.

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Demo 4: Process
Customization

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Lesson Knowledge Check
• What is a Process?
• Name the default processes available in Azure DevOps Services
• What tool would you use to create an inherited process?

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Lesson Summary
• In this lesson, you learned about:
o Process
o Default Processes
o Process Customization

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Module 2: Projects

Lesson 5: Introducing Team

Explorer

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Overview
• Team Explorer
• Team Explorer Everywhere

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Team Explorer
• Window in Visual Studio
• Allows you to:
o Manage work that is assigned to you, your team, or your projects
o Manage source code, work items, and builds

• The operations available depend on the source control option (TFVC or Git)

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Team Explorer Plug-in for Visual Studio
Git TFVC

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Team Explorer Everywhere
• Plug-in for Eclipse IDE
o Written in Java
o Standard repository provider plug-in
o More than just version control
o Equivalent to Team Explorer

• Supported across major platforms

o Windows, Mac OS X, and forms of UNIX (such as Linux, HP-UX, Solaris and AIX)

• Works with other tools based on Eclipse IDE

o Rational Application Developer, Adobe Flex Builder, and others

• Also, a cross-platform command-line client

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Team Explorer Plug-in for Eclipse

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Demo 5: Team Explorer

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Lesson Knowledge Check
• What page in Team Explorer helps you manage, suspend, and resume work in progress?
• True/False: Can Java developers use Azure DevOps Services for Version Control on computers running Mac
or Linux?

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Lesson Summary
• In this lesson, you learned about:
o Team Explorer
o Team Explorer Everywhere

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Module Summary
In this module, you learned about:
o Hierarchy of Azure DevOps Services
o Projects
o Understanding Teams
o Process
o Team Explorer

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Lab: Projects

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