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Azure DevOps Services - Azure DevOps Boards - Part - 2 #AzureDevOpsBoards #AzureDevOpsServices


 


What is Azure DevOps Board?

Azure board is main service of Azure DevOps which is used in project to - 

-          - Track the work with Kanban board (It is details of all work items like Bug, User Story)

-          - Work with backlog – Maintain all work items current and backlogs.

-          - Team Dashboard – Provide Team wise dashboard.

-          - Reporting – You can provide report of your work items.


Use of Azure Boards:

-          - Managing and tracking work.

-          -  It provides clear picture of work done by team member.

-          - You can give access of board to your stakeholder to see the progress of your                             development.

-          - Mange your product backlogs.

-          - Get different types of reports.

                  

Who will work on Azure Board:

-          - The Team.

-          - Development team will work on managing their work like tasks, stories, Bugs etc.

-          - PO will manage the backlogs.

-          - Stakeholders will work to see the status of their items.


Azure Board Types:

It depends on Work Item Process which is selected at the time of project creation. Each

 type provides different types of work item and workflow.

 

Azure Board – Work Items

Work item is a unit of work and is a part of your product development.

Feature:

Title, Description, assigned to, Completed By etc.



Title: Enter the Description of your item.

Assigned to: Assign the work item to the team member.

State: Represent the current state (Column of Kanban Board.) of work item.

Area Path: Represent the project name.

Example: Epic, User Story, Bug, Feature etc.

 

When you create a Work Item then it looks like: 




Work Items in Azure Boards – It depends on which work item process option is selected at

 the time of  project creation like:




Basic Process:

There are 3 work items in Azure board with basic process.

1.        - Epic – Functionality or Large work.

2.       -  Issue – It may be Bug, User Story, Feature etc.

3.       - Task – Small work.


Workflow:

1.      Workflow is the process of updating work item progress.  

2.      Flow =To Do -> Doing -> Done.


Kanban Boards:



Here you can fill all related details about your issue like Description, assigned to, State,

 Reason, Discussion, Planning, Comments etc. Any changes on work item you can see the history of that item.


Agile Process:

There are 7 work items in Azure board with Agile process.

Bug: Something missed or Implemented in wrong way.

User Story: Implementation of new work.

Feature: New functionality.

Test Cases: Its test cases of feature.



Workflow: 


 
                   
User Story Fig -1                                                                   Bug Fig- 2  
   
                       Task Fig- 3 


Kanban Boards:




CMMI Process: Capability Maturity Model Integration

When lot of change request in project then use CMMI option. It contains agile 7 work item

 + additional 3 work item like Requirement, Change Request and Risk. 



Change Request: If work done is valid but needs to implement something else.

Requirement: Work item to track on board. Or New Requirement Gathering.

Risk: This work item has some risk to implement.


Workflow:



 

Kanban Board:



 

Scrum Process:

Impediment: Any work which is dependency to other developers or team.

Workflow:


Kanban Board:


Backlog:

It is collection of work items which is used for future development. There are 2 types of backlogs:

1.      Product Backlog – This is the list which is needed into project.

2.      Sprint Backlog – This is the work items which are in TODO state.

 

Benefits or use of Backlogs:

-          - Quickly define the task. – User Story, Bug 

-          - Manage Priority

-          - Quickly assign work items to team members.

-          - Add Details and estimate the backlog items in advance.                                                                        

        How to create Backlog: 


Sprints:



 

Queries:

What is Query?

A query is combination of few logic which is applied on work items.

Need of Query?

A query is a used to filter work items based on several logic.



 

Hope you understand the concept of Azure DevOps Boards which is first service of Azure DevOps. 

Thanks. 👍🙏






 







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