Tag: Azure DevOps

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 …

Azure DevOps 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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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

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 …

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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

Information Radiators That Actually Inform

Jul 7, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

An information radiator is any display, physical or electronic, placed somewhere visible that shows process or product information. The phrase has been around for years, but plenty of teams set one up …

Azure DevOps Scrum

Marketplace Extensions Worth Installing on Day One

May 13, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The Azure DevOps Marketplace boasts more than 1,200 extensions across all the services. That's a lot to wade through, and most teams either ignore it entirely or install a dozen shiny things they …

Azure DevOps Tools Scrum

Stakeholder Access Is Free Transparency

Mar 20, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here's a feature teams routinely leave on the table: Stakeholder access. It's free, it's unlimited, and it gives the people around your Scrum Team a window into the work. If you care about …

Azure DevOps Scrum

Customizing a Professional Scrum Process

Feb 17, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The Scrum process in Azure DevOps is the closest fit to the Scrum Guide of any system process, but it isn't a perfect fit. Over the past decade the Scrum Guide evolved while the process largely stood …

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