Tag: Azure Boards

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 …

Azure DevOps Azure Boards Tools MVP

What Makes a Good Bug Report

May 27, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

A bug report is exactly what it sounds like: the reporting of a bug or other unwanted behavior in the product. The point of writing a good one is to give the Scrum Team enough information to …

Azure Boards Testing Scrum

In-Sprint vs. Out-of-Sprint Bugs

Apr 2, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Not all bugs are the same kind of problem, and treating them as if they were leads teams astray. A bug can be found in a product already delivered to production, in a done Increment from a previous …

Azure Boards Scrum Testing

Tags, Fields, and Area Paths: Slicing the Backlog

Feb 10, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Sooner or later your Product Backlog gets big enough that you want to slice it: show me just the mobile work, just the bugs, just the items for the payments area. Azure Boards gives you three tools …

Azure Boards Scrum

Workflow State Categories: Why Your States Map the Way They Do

Dec 22, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here's a question that stumps a lot of teams the first time they customize a process: how does Azure Boards know that "Committed" in Scrum and "Active" in Agile mean roughly the same thing? The agile …

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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

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

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