Azure DevOps Portal? Azure DevOps Organization & Project Creation? Their Setting? Team Creation? Part -1

 

Azure DevOps portal:

Azure DevOps can be accessed using following website:

https://dev.azure.com

Simply create the account by clicking Start free button using your email id and complete

the process like Enter Email ID, Password, Email Verification, Choose country etc. Once you

complete the above steps then below home page of Azure DevOps will appear.

Organization on Azure DevOps Portal:

1)      -  In Azure DevOps there is structure of you work.

2)      - This structure depends on Organization, Projects, and Teams.

3)      -  An Organization is a mechanism for organizing and connecting groups of related                   projects.

4)      - Each project must belong to an Organization.

5)      - To work with Azure DevOps, you must have at least one Organization.

6)      - When you create account on Azure DevOps default organization is automatically                  created as per your email name.

7)      - You can create more than one organization also.

 

When or Why to create Multiple Organizations:

1) If you have large number of projects in your company.

2) We can treat an organization as an account, business unit, sub-companies, groups etc.

3) Each organization will have its own URL. So, it’s must be unique because it is part of your URL.

 Syntax: https://dev.azure.com/ {Organization-name}

 Example https://dev.azure.com/UTHUBS/

How to Create Organization in Azure DevOps:

 

Simply click on New Organization – As per above image. 

Here, we need to mention the unique organization name and your data center where you

can store your data, this is as per your need or as per your client location and complete the

process.

Organization Setting: 

Overview: Showing Organization Name, Description, Region of Data Centre, Organization

Owner, Delete Organization option etc.

Projects: All the projects associated with this organization are showing under this option.

Users: Showing all related user list under this option.

Billing: Showing user billing – Its completely free for 5 users.

Global Notification:  

It’s covers the setting related builds, Code like all PR related, Extension Management,

 Pipelines, Release & Works. The purpose of this setting is just providing the notification as

 per your setting by default all are enable. You can also disable it as per your need.

Usage: Its showing user details like what user are doing in Azure DevOps.

Extensions: You can user third party extensions in your organization using this option.

Azure Active Directory: Used to manage users. 

What is Project?

1.      - A project is a place where actual complete product development is done by team.

2.      - A provides a repository for source code.

3.      - All the data related to software is stored under the project.

4.      - Each project must have an organization.

5.      - Project provides all main services of Azure DevOps like Boards, Repo, Pipeline, Test Plan,       Artifacts.

6.      - By default, one team is created with the same name as Project when we create a new          project.

Project Types:

1)      1) Public Project – If we create public project then

a)      Its visible to everyone

b)      No login is required to get access of public project.

c)      Each public project has a unique URL.

d)      Mostly used for Open-Source Project development.

e)      We can create unlimited public projects under one organization.

2)      2) Private Project – If we create private project then

a)      Its visible to limited users.

b)      User must login into Azure DevOps to get access of project.

c)      Each private project has a unique URL.

            d)      Its mostly used for non-public software development. 

Here, selects the organization where you want to create a new project and fill the all-

project related details and press “Create Project” button. Refer the above image.

There are 2 types of Version control available like Git and TFVS (Team Foundation Version

 Control) for managing the code.

There are 4 types of Work Item Process like Agile, Basic, CMMI, Scrum. The Board of

 project is depending on selection of “Work Item Process” option at the time of project

 creation.

Once all process is completed as per above image the project looks like:

Project Setting:

Overview: Showing project name, Description, Process, Visibility.

Teams: Showing all working team under this project.

Permission: Want to mange the users and group access under this option.

Notifications: You can manage notification at Build, Code, Pipeline, Release level.

How to setup team for project.

Team:

A team is group of people who are responsible for software development. Team includes

Developers, QA, Scrum Master etc. User must have admin rights to add new person in

team.

There are 2 ways to add team in project.

1.      1. Through Invite option at the top right side.

1.      2. Through Project Setting- Teams- New Team Button.

If users are adding, then user gets email notification.

You can change the user’s permission through the Organization setting- User’s option. 

Hope you understand the concept of Azure DevOps Portal , Organization , Project Creation and their setting  and Team Creation. 

Thanks. 👍🙏