Microsoft Azure DevOps – Boards

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Background: We have started discussing Azure DevOps. In last 10 articles of Azure DevOps we discussed

• Introductory part of Azure DevOps – Introduction of Azure DevOps
• Organizations in Azure DevOps – What are Azure DevOps Organizations, how to create Organizations, permissions etc.
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – Deleting and Recovering Organization
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – Projects – What are Azure DevOps Projects, how to create Projects, permissions etc.
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – Types of Projects – Public project, Private project
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – Project settings
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – Deleting and Recovering Projects
• Azure DevOps – REST APIs – Part 1 – for Projects
• Azure DevOps – REST APIs – Part 2 – Creating Personal Access Tokens (PATs)
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – REST APIs – Part 3 – Personal Access Tokens (PATs) – “Revoke”, “Edit” and “Regenerate” operations

In this article we will move ahead and will discuss Boards and its features bit. In upcoming articles we will discuss every features in depth.

Take away from this article: At the end of this article we will got to know about Azure Boards and its features.

Details :

What is Azure Boards? Azure Boards is the interface which allows us to manage our

• Work items (Epic, Tasks, Issues / bugs)
• Boards
• Backlogs
• Sprints
• Queries

These are core features of Azure Boards. Lets discuss these features shortly here and in depth in upcoming separate articles.

• Work items (Epic, Tasks, Issues / bugs)
  • All work in Azure Boards is managed through Work items
  • In work items we add the tasks / issues / epics
  • Each work item has states (New, Active, Closed and so on) to track the progress

• Boards
  • Each project have per-configured Kanban board
  • We could very easily customize board
  • Boards support card customization, conditional formatting, filtering and so on

• Backlogs
  • Planning tool
  • Allows us to create User stories, product backlogs, requirements
  • We could add details, descriptions, priorities and estimates
  • Easy assignments of respective product backlogs to the team members
  • Group backlog items

• Sprints
  • Sprint comes with Taskboard, Backlogs, Capacity and Analysis tools
  • Allow to create new work items
  • These tool helps to implement scrum practices
  • We can monitor our burndown

• Queries
  • One of the most powerful feature
  • Its very simple to create queries and pin them to dashboard.
  • For example, I’ll just create query to see my tasks

Next Article : In next article we will discuss first feature – Azure Boards – Work items in depth

We have very good series going on Azure DevOps. Please have a look once – https://knowledge-junction.in/?s=Azure+DevOps

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