Tag: Azure DevOps

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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Managing One Product Backlog Across Many Teams

Jan 26, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When organizations scale Scrum to several teams, the first thing that tends to fracture is the backlog. Every team wants its own list, and before long you have three or four backlogs, three or four …

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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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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 …

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