Chapter 1: Getting Started with Azure BoardsChapter Goal: Hands-on lessons on setting up projects with Azure DevOps, while identifying the differences in each project template. This chapter further provides overview of Azure Boards to enable you get started.
No of pages: 25
Sub -Topics
1. Creating an Azure DevOps Organization
2. Creating Agile Project - Public/Private
3. Creating Scrum Project
4. Creating CMMI Project
5. Comparing Project Templates
6. Navigating Azure Boards (Summary, Dashboards, Wiki, Work Items, Boards, Backlogs, Sprints and Queries)
Chapter 2: Setting up a Team Project in a Simple Way
Chapter Goal: A comprehensive walkthrough setting up a team project in a simple way to enable it to be used for planning and deliver work would be covered in this chapter. No of pages: 25
Sub - Topics
1. Setting up Areas
2. Setting up releases and iterations
3. Setting up team member and permissions
4. Define common project settings
5. Defining Team Capacity and off days
Chapter 3: Working with Backlog and Boards Chapter Goal: Hands-on lessons would be provided covering how to effectively use Azure Boards to plan and execute work in this chapter.
No of pages: 40 Sub - Topics:
1. Introduction to backlog hierarchy 2. Defining a backlog and grouping
3. Important work item fields 4. Using Kanban board
5. Adding work to iterations 6. Manage tasks in the iteration
7. Working with Bugs Chapter 4: Customizing Azure Boards
Chapter Goal: Simple customizations are explored in this chapter to give you a broad understanding on available options to track your work considering various practical scenarios you may encounter in software delivery team day to day life.
No of pages: 25
Sub - Topics:
1. Board columns, and splitting to Doing and Done 2. Swim-lanes
3. Customize Cards
4. Style rules
5. Tags
Etc.
Chapter 5: Customizing the Process Chapter Goal: A scenario based comprehensive walkthroughs on how would you be able to customize Azure Boards using process template customizations would be explored in this chapter.
No of pages: 40
Sub - Topics:
1. Creating an inherited process and set projects to use it
2. Adding new fields to a work item
3. Changing state flow of a work item
4. Applying state flow changes in boards
5. Adding new work item types 6. Adding additional top backlog levels
7. Defining custom work item rules Chapter 6: Visualizing and Reporting in Azure Boards Chapter Goal: In depth explanation on using out of the box reporting and visualizing of work and creating more enhanced visualizations with queries, charts and dashboard
About the Author: Chaminda is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Visual Studio ALM and Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster(R), and focuses on and believes in continuous improvement of the software development lifecycle. He works as a Senior Engineer - DevOps at Xameriners, Singapore. Chaminda is an active Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC) who is well recognized for his contributions in Microsoft forums, TechNet galleries, wikis, and Stack Overflow and he contributes extensions to Azure DevOps Server and Services (former VSTS/TFS) in the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace. He also contributes to other open source projects in GitHub. Chaminda has published three books with Apress and he blogs at https: //chamindac.blogspot.com/.
Pushpa is a DevOps Engineer at Datavail Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. She is an author, blogger and speaker in public technical events who has many years of experience in administering, configuring and coaching Azure DevOps and Test Automation engineering. Pushpa blogs on technology at https: //devopsadventure.blogspot.com/. Pushpa has experience with Microsoft tools (C#, Azure DevOps, SQL Server, and Azure Platform Services) and other DevOps tools (Octopus, Jira, Jenkins). She has published a book with Apress.
