Agile Management using Azure DevOps

Set up your agile project on Azure DevOps by creating the project, configuring teams and permissions, and exploring boards, backlogs, sprints, queries, and delivery plans.

Access Azure DevOps via the internet using a supported browser, sign in with a Microsoft or Azure AD account, and create an organization to host projects, repositories, and pipelines.

Create a new project in your Azure DevOps organization, verify you are the project collection administrator, and configure privacy (private or public), version control (Git or TFVC), and Scrum.

Learn how to manage permissions and groups in Azure DevOps, add users to project, collection, or organizational security groups, and assign roles like contributors, project administrators, and collection administrators.

Structure your Azure DevOps project by creating a git repository, defining area and iteration paths, forming teams with security groups, organizing a query folder, and configuring notifications.

Configure teams in Azure boards and Azure projects, set backlog levels and working days, manage bugs, define iterations and area paths, and apply template defaults in a practical demo.

Learn to configure teams and sprints in Azure Boards by defining project level iteration paths with dates, setting prerequisites and permissions, and planning team areas and work item assignments.

Configure iterations and sprints in Azure DevOps for your project by adding sprints and setting two-week dates, then track the current iteration in boards and team backlog.

Discover how to add area paths in an Azure DevOps project to organize work items by products, features, or business areas, enabling a 14-level hierarchy, team assignments, and backlog queries.

Add and structure area paths in Azure DevOps by using project settings to define areas, create backend and frontend subareas, assign teams, and illustrate microservice architectures for delivering work.

Create a team in Azure DevOps and configure administrators, members, and a default; follow a hands-on demo showing backlog items, plan their sprints, dashboards, alerts or notifications, and team favorites.

Translate high-level business requirements into Azure DevOps epics, features, and backlog items for an e-commerce system, using the Fanny Hat Store example with product catalog, basket, checkout, and integrations.

Explore the end-to-end sprint process and all required meetings—planning, grooming, daily scrums, reviews, demos, and retrospectives—and how the product owner and development team refine the backlog and deliver increments.

Learn how to run effective sprint planning in Azure DevOps, including backlog prioritization, estimation methods like Fibonacci sequence and T-shirt sizing, and capacity and velocity forecasting.

Explore demos in Azure DevOps to customize fields for the Scrum process, manage product backlog items, create an inherited process, and tailor sprint workflows for agile sprint planning.

Demonstrate removing backlog items from sprint one in Azure DevOps by bulk editing their iteration path to the project, preventing automatic sprint allocation.

Change your project to the new inherited custom scrum process in Azure DevOps, then install a marketplace extension to automatically add design, development, and testing templates to product backlog items.

Customize sprint workflows in Azure DevOps by tailoring boards, columns, and statuses for backlog items, epics, and features; add fields like effort and priority, and use queries to track progress.

Assign and prioritize backlog items into sprint one in Azure DevOps by dragging epics, features, and backlog items, focusing on user login tasks.

Learn to determine and set sprint capacity in Azure DevOps by measuring capacity per day in hours, configuring team capacity and time off, using previous sprint data to guide estimates.

Demonstrates how to determine and set sprint capacity in Azure DevOps by assigning daily hours for design, development, and requirements and managing off days, holidays, and a two-week sprint.

Learn to adjust sprint work items to fit capacity in Azure DevOps, using backlog forecasting and velocity insights to balance workload and move items to sprint two as needed.

Learn to add template and custom tasks to a sprint in Azure DevOps, assign work, track remaining effort, and move items from to do to done under Scrum guidance.

Demonstrate backlog grooming and assignment in Azure DevOps, showing how to assign backlog items to team members, create tasks, and prepare a sprint with the product owner and business analysts.

Share your sprint plan with stakeholders by showing how to create a sprint plan query from the backlog, email or export it, and configure the task board with story points.

Learn to update and monitor sprint task boards in azure devops, customize board controls, and track progress before and during daily scrums, including filtering, assigning, and closing sprints.

Close out the sprint by maintaining backlog hygiene and addressing incomplete work for the next sprint. Hold demos, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to improve velocity and team self-organization.

Define sprint retrospectives, gather team feedback, and discuss observations to identify improvements. Prioritize actionable items, assign owners, set timelines, and monitor progress for continuous improvement in Azure DevOps.

Learn to run sprint retrospectives in Azure DevOps using the app gaming retrospective extension linked to Azure Boards, guiding what went well, what didn't, and actionable improvements.

Explore sprint reviews and demos in agile cadences, with stakeholders, demos of completed backlog items, and feedback to refine sprint goals and the product backlog.

Configure Azure Boards to support portfolio management, track dependencies, monitor time estimates versus actual work, and tailor work items, backlogs, cards, and columns for capacity planning.

Customize your Azure DevOps board for your project and team, configuring area paths, backlogs, work item types, fields, workflows, and capacity to match your scrum practices.

Discover how to create and customize work item types in Azure DevOps, configure portfolio backlogs, and set hierarchies with a technical enabler, fields, rules, and sprint integration.

Customize cards on the sprint taskboard by configuring fields, styling rules, and tag colors to highlight status and phases, including done in green and phase one and phase two colors.

Learn to use filters on Azure DevOps boards, backlogs, and sprints to find items by type, assignee, phase, state, or keywords, and to customize queries and columns.

Configure working days in Azure DevOps by adjusting team capacity and individual leave days to reflect time off and holidays, improving sprint planning and velocity.

Create and manage bugs on Azure Boards by capturing steps to reproduce, system info, and error messages, then define acceptance criteria, priority (showstopper, ship but fix later, cosmetic), and severity.

Create and manage Azure DevOps queries on Azure Boards, exploring predefined and shared queries, duplicating, organizing by folders, filtering, and exporting or sharing results with your team.

Learn to create, save, and share Azure DevOps queries, navigate favorites and all queries, and build charts from flat-list results with filters like assignee and status.

Plan agile at scale and understand its impact on your portfolio, then create delivery plans and dashboards in Azure DevOps using widgets, queries, and charts.

Explore plans and portfolios in a scaled agile framework, customizing processes, configuring scenarios, area paths, iterations, and backlog boards to manage multi-team roadmaps and multiple products.

Demonstrates configuring Azure DevOps for a scaled agile process by creating portfolio backlogs and scenarios and aligning iterations and area paths for web and mobile apps.

Learn to create and visualize delivery plans in azure devops, aligning scrum teams with your roadmap, goals, and portfolio items using drag-and-drop planning, backlogs, and dependencies.

Learn to create and manage delivery plans in Azure DevOps, including epics, team selection, filtering, dependencies, milestones, and security settings to track delivery across sprints.

Learn to add and customize charts on Azure DevOps dashboards, including work item queries, in-context work tracking, build history, release summary chart, and test quality trend charts, with a demo.

Explore Azure DevOps integrations and extensions with Teams and Slack, export data to Excel or CSV, and use Power BI dashboards and reactive reports to track bugs and backlog.

Celebrate completing the course by staying engaged with evolving agile methodologies and Azure DevOps trends, and pursue growth as a scrum master, development manager, or technical lead.