Hands-On Azure Boards: Configuring and Customizing Process Workflows in Azure Devops Services

ISBN-13: 9781484250457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 353 str.

Chaminda Chandrasekara; Pushpa Herath

Spis treści

​Chapter 1:  Getting Started with Azure Boards

Chapter 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 dashboards would be covered in this chapter.

No of pages: 60

Sub - Topics: 

1.       Explore out of the box reporting of Azure Boards

2.       Creating personal queries

3.       Sharing queries with the team

4.       Writing complex queries

5.       Creating charts with queries

6.       Adding charts to Dashboards

7.       Creating Dashboards

8.       Adding widgets to dashboard

9.       Useful widgets to visualize work items

 

Chapter 7: Configure Large Team in a Team Project

Chapter Goal: This chapter will provide hands on lessons on how to setup the Azure Boards to handle large development team which may comprise of multiple modules handled by different teams working together to form the entire application development team.

No of pages: 40

Sub - Topics: 

1.       Understanding requirement of multiple teams

2.       Configuring Areas and Teams to Isolate backlogs

3.       Sharing same iteration with multiple teams

4.       Working with different release cadence for teams

5.       Sharing a team member for multiple teams

Chapter 8: Security Options

Chapter Goal: You would be able to get a broad understanding of how Azure DevOps security works and how you would be able to handle required permissions effectively to enable your team to work with Azure Boards.

No of pages: 25

Sub - Topics: 

1.       Adding users to Azure DevOps/Boards

2.       Enable access to external users in organization backed Azure DevOps accounts

3.       Granting license to extensions and paid features

4.       Organization level security options

5.       Project level security options

6.       Team level Security

 

Chapter 9: Working with REST API and CLI

Chapter Goal: This chapter would provide you with deeper understanding on how to use REST API for customized reporting and querying purposes. Additionally you would be provided with the knowledge on how you can use the REST API and Command Line Interface (CLI) to update information on work items with real life case study samples, which would enhance the way your teams work.

No of pages: 40

Sub - Topics:  sub topics would be defined later.

Chapter 10: Extensions for Azure Boards

Chapter Goal: You would be able to explore few useful extensions to Azure Boards and how to use them to the betterment of the effectiveness of your teams’ work would be explored in this chapter.

No of pages: 40

Sub - Topics:

1.      Using extensions in Azure DevOps

2.      Plan extension

3.      Estimate extension

4.      Features extension

5.      Export work items extension

O autorze

Chaminda is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Visual Studio ALM and Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster®, 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.

Blurb

Understand and explore the features and management of Azure Boards with this book, which also covers Azure Boards configuration and advanced administration. This book starts by setting up projects with Azure DevOps and gives an overview of Azure Boards and its features. You will then learn to set up team projects and how to effectively use Azure Boards to plan and execute work. 

Hands-on Azure Boards explains customizations, where you will understand the available options to track your work considering different scenarios. Next, you will learn visualizing with queries, charts, and dashboards along with reporting of Azure Boards. The author gives you hands-on lessons to set up Azure Boards and shows you how to handle multiple modules that are taken care of by different teams. 

You will also explore the security options in Azure Boards as well as a detailed demonstration of working with the REST API and CLI. Finally, you will work with useful extensions for Azure Boards and see how to use them more effectively and efficiently. After reading this book, you will be able to work with the Azure Boards capabilities available in Azure DevOps on-premise server and services to improve your software delivery process. 

You will:

• Plan and manage work with Azure Boards
• Use the REST API and command line interface with Azure Boards
• Extend Azure Boards with useful extensions to enhance its capabilities 
• Customize Azure Boards to adapt it to your process
• Report and visualize work progress with Azure Boards