Agile project management with Azure DevOps

Intro; Table of Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Introduction; Chapter 1: Introduction to Application Life Cycle Management; Aspects of the ALM Process; Four Ways of Looking at ALM; The SDLC View; The Service Management or Operations View; The APM View; The Unified View; Three Pillars of Traditional ALM; Traceability; Automation of High-Level Processes; Visibility into the Progress of Development Efforts; A Brief History of ALM Tools and Concepts; ALM 1.0; ALM 2.0; ALM 2.0+; DevOps; Azure DevOps Introduction; Summary; Chapter 2: An Overview of Azure DevOps ALM OverviewAzure DevOps Overview; Team Foundation Server; Process Template; Visual Studio 2017 Editions; Azure DevOps; Microsoft Office; IDE Integration; Traceability; The Azure DevOps Work Item Tracking System; Work Items; Configuration Management Using Azure DevOps; Version Control and Release Management in Azure DevOps; Build Management Using Azure Pipelines; Automation of High-Level Processes; Visibility; Collaboration; Work Items for Collaboration; The Gap between IT and Business; Office/Microsoft Project Integration; Use of One Tool/Role Based; Extensibility-- Difference between TFS and Azure DevOpsSummary; Chapter 3: Introduction to Scrum and Agile Concepts; The Scrum Framework; Empirical Process Control; Complexity in Projects; What Scrum Is; Roles and Responsibilities in Scrum; Deliverables in Scrum; The Product backlog; Sprint Backlog; Product Increment; Sprint Goal; Events in Scrum; Sprint planning; Daily Scrum; Sprint Review; Sprint retrospective; Backlog Refinement; Definition of Done; Agile Requirements and Estimation; Requirements; Estimation; Backlog; During the Sprint; Daily Standup; Kanban; Start with What You Do Now-- Agree to Pursue Incremental, Evolutionary ChangeRespect the Current Process, Roles, Responsibilities, and Titles; The Five Core Properties; Visualize the Workflow; Limit WIP; Manage Flow; Make Process Policies Explicit; Improve Collaboratively; Common Models Used to Understand Work in Kanban; eXtreme Programming; Scaling Agile; Scrum of Scrums; SAFe; Essential SAFe; Large-Solution SAFe; Portfolio SAFe; Full SAFe; SAFe Implementation Road Map; NEXUS-SPS; Large-Scale Scrum; How Agile Maps to ALM; Agile Captures Task-Based Work; There Is Increased Frequency of Inspection-- Many Tools Collect Much InformationTest Artifacts Are Important; Agile Teams Plan Frequently; Summary; Chapter 4: Work Items and Process Templates; ALM Revisited; Traceability; The Azure DevOps Work Item Tracking System; Work Items; The Work Item Form; Work Item Traceability; Work Item Queries; Conclusions on the Work Item Tracking System; The Process in Azure DevOps; Scrum, Agile, and CMMI; Scrum; Agile; CMMI; Workflow States; Work Item Types for All Processes; Work Items That Support MTM; Summary; Chapter 5: Customizing the Process Template in Azure DevOps; Process Customization--

; 'Roll up your sleeves and jump into Agile project management to use and customize Microsoft Azure DevOps. Organizations adopt Agile practices because they are a key enabler to run better projects, get more successful end results, and achieve an overall higher quality output. To benefit the most from Agile, you need an Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) or DevOps toolset that supports your style and work environment. 'Agile project management with Azure DevOps' teaches you how to use Azure DevOps to implement many Agile practices such as SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban, and it shows you how they fit into a well-planned Agile implementation. Agile product owners will learn how to work with Azure DevOps to set up a project from scratch, and to continue using Azure DevOps throughout. Keeping track of progress is important in any project. Author Joachim Rossberg teaches you about the tools in Azure DevOps that can help you track progress and key metrics, including those that are available right out of the box. You will learn how to create and refine the backlog, work with Kanban and Scrum task boards, and get exposed to valuable key concepts along the way. Finally, you will dive into Azure DevOps extensibility to learn about the many ways you can customize reporting to best meet your needs.'--