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Azure Boards

• Allows teams to follow an agile project management approach.
• Has native support for Scrum & Kanban type projects
• Has customizable dashboards
• Has integrating reporting

Terminology

• Work item
  • Track your project features & requirements
  • Track your code defects or bugs
• User stories
  • Helps define the application requirements
  • Product owners who will define & rank user stories.
• Boards
  • Collaborate with others
  • Kanban board: Add, update & review the work items as cards.
• Sprints
  • Used working with scrum
  • Schedule work items & update them as required.
• Queries
  • Helps you list or search for work items based on specific criteria.

📝 Choose a process

Name	When to choose	Hierarchy	Separate items
Basic Process	Need for the simplest model	Epic (in Portfolio backlog) 🠚 issue (in Product backlog) 🠚 task	␀
Agile Process	Need for an agile process e.g. Scrum, can track user stories, bugs, development, test activities	Epic (in Portfolio backlog) 🠚 feature 〖🠚 user story (in Backlog) 🠚 task (in Backlog)〗 OR 〖bug (in Backlog) 🠚 task (in Backlog)〗	issue
Scrum process	Need to align with Scrum	Same as agile but product backlog item instead of user story	impediment for issue & bug tracking
CMMI Process	Need to follow more formal project process	Same as agile but feature instead of user story	change request, issue, review, risk

• 🤗 Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is framework to move towards an more agile approach.
  • defines the following maturity levels for processes: Initial, Managed, Defined, Quantitatively Managed, and Optimizing.

Flow

• Log in to https://dev.azure.com with your Microsoft account
• You create an organization or use default organization for your user name.
• Create a project
• You have
  • Boards
    • Boards: Create work items
    • Backlogs: See all items from backlog
    • Sprints: you see also tasks inside work items
      • Can create new sprints with start & end date
      • You assign work-items as part of sprints
    • Queries
  • Repos, Pipelines, Test plans, Artifacts
• You can create work items
  • Can be issue, issue or task
• In boards you have columns such as to-do, doing, done
  • They are customizable
  • You can move work items between them
• You can create tasks inside a work item.

Connecting to GitHub

• Enables linking between
  • GitHub commits, pull requests, and issues to work items
• Steps
  1. Add connection
     • Project settings => Boards => GitHub connections
     • Add a new connection
       • To authenticate you can use
         • Username + Password
         • or PAT (Personal Access token)
         • or OAuth (only for GitHub Enterprise Server)
       • Add GitHub repositories to use with Azure Boards once the connection is established
  2. Install Azure Boards app for GitHub

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