Tag: Azure DevOps

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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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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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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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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Associating Commits to Work Items for Traceability

Jun 13, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

It's a smell when I don't see commits associated with a work item. It usually means the Developers decided that traceability isn't worth the extra step. It is. Linking a Git commit to the work item it …

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Nexus Sprint Planning in Practice

May 12, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

People hear "Sprint Planning at scale" and imagine a giant meeting with sixty people in a room trying to plan one enormous Sprint. That's not how Nexus Sprint Planning works, and if that's what you're …

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Nexus Support in Azure DevOps, Honestly

Mar 18, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Let me be candid, because I'd rather you hear it from me than discover it mid-scale. There is no first-class support for Nexus in Azure DevOps. There's no "enable Nexus" switch, no built-in Nexus …

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