Author: Richard Hundhausen

Your Entire Azure DevOps Organization at a Glance

Sep 22, 2026 • 6 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Almost every Azure DevOps engagement starts with the same question: what is actually in here? Before a migration, a process redesign, a licensing review, or a coaching engagement, somebody has to find …

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Bulk-Loading User Avatars in Azure DevOps Server

Sep 9, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When we teach an Azure DevOps Server course, it runs against a VM with a dozen or so fake users: Alice, Andy, Anna, and friends. When those users have real faces on their boards, pull requests, and …

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Scrum: More Agile Than Agile

Sep 9, 2026 • 4 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When you create a new project in Azure DevOps, you pick a process: Basic, Agile, Scrum, or CMMI. Most organizations pick Agile. Not because they evaluated it, but because of the name. It sounds like …

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Let the Fraudsters Begin: Malus and the License-Washing Machine

Aug 18, 2026 • 6 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In March 2026 a site called malus.sh started making the rounds. The pitch is "Clean Room as a Service": proprietary AI robots read only the public documentation of any open source project, a second …

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We Open Sourced Our Digital.ai Agility to Azure DevOps Migrator

Aug 7, 2026 • 5 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If your organization is still tracking work in Digital.ai Agility, formerly VersionOne, and you have decided to move to Azure DevOps, the decision was the easy part. The migration is where it gets …

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Who Owns the Monkey Selfie? Same Answer as Your AI Code

Aug 5, 2026 • 6 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In 2011, a British nature photographer named David Slater hauled his gear into a reserve on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi to shoot a troop of crested macaques. The animals were curious about the …

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Named a Microsoft MVP in DevOps, Again

Jul 31, 2026 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The email arrived this week: I have been accepted into the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional program for the coming year, in DevOps. The award date is August 1, 2026. I am genuinely happy about it, …

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Which AI-Code Risk Persona Is Your Organization?

Jul 1, 2026 • 6 min read • Richard Hundhausen

By now the headline is familiar: pure AI output has no human author, so under U.S. law nobody owns it. I've made that case in the overview, watched a federal appeals court confirm it, and watched the …

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Can You Automate Copyright Registration From an Azure Pipeline?

Jun 26, 2026 • 4 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Short answer: not the whole thing, and you shouldn't want to. You can automate the tedious, deterministic part of registering your source code with the U.S. Copyright Office, but the filing itself …

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