Author: Richard Hundhausen

Configuring Additional Teams in One Project

Dec 8, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When you create an Azure DevOps project, a single default team is created with the same name as the project. For single-team Scrum, you just add the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Developers to that …

Azure DevOps Scrum

A Naming Convention for Test Cases

Nov 17, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

A single PBI with five acceptance criteria can produce five or more Test Case work items. Multiply that across a forecast of eight PBIs and you're staring at 40-some test cases in a Sprint. Without a …

Azure Test Plans Scrum Preferred Practice

Scrum Work Item Types, Decoded

Oct 30, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Azure DevOps offers more than a dozen work item types, but most don't relate to planning and managing work. In the Scrum process, the ones that actually matter for a Scrum Team are Product Backlog …

Azure Boards Scrum

Area Paths vs. Iteration Paths

Oct 17, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Two of the most useful organizing concepts in Azure Boards get confused all the time, and the confusion creates real mess in a backlog. Area paths and iteration paths sound similar and live near each …

Azure Boards Azure DevOps Scrum

ATDD vs. TDD

Oct 1, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

ATDD can sometimes be confused with TDD. It's akin to confusing ADHD with ADD, but I digress. The two practices share a family resemblance, and people who've only heard of one tend to assume it covers …

Scrum Development Testing

Don't Create Tasks Before Sprint Planning

Sep 10, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

It's a smell when I see tasks created and associated with a PBI before Sprint Planning. I run into it constantly, usually from well-meaning teams who think they're getting a head start. They're not. …

Scrum Azure Boards

Project Dashboards vs. Team Dashboards

Aug 26, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When you create a dashboard in Azure DevOps, you make a choice that's easy to breeze past: is this a project dashboard or a team dashboard? They look similar and they're built from the same widgets, …

Azure DevOps Scrum

ATDD on a Scrum Team, Concretely

Aug 6, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Starting work by creating failing tests can feel counterintuitive and weird. It also works. Test-driven development proves that every day. Acceptance test-driven development, or ATDD, takes the same …

Scrum Azure Test Plans Testing

Shared Queries Every Scrum Team Should Create

Jul 21, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Work item queries are one of the most underused features in Azure Boards. They let you view, filter, and sort your work so you can decide what to act on, and they can power charts on dashboards and …

Azure Boards Scrum Preferred Practice