Tag: Scrum

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 …

Azure DevOps Development Scrum

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

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 …

Scrum Azure DevOps

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

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 …

Azure DevOps Scrum

Reusing Tests and Building a Regression Suite

Mar 4, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Every Sprint you build a test plan full of acceptance tests. When the Sprint ends, what should you keep, and how? Not everything deserves to outlive its Sprint, but the tests that protect your …

Azure Test Plans Testing Scrum

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

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

Inspecting Test Progress Mid-Sprint

Jan 12, 2026 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If your forecasted PBIs are expressed as failing acceptance tests, then progress becomes wonderfully simple to read. The more passing tests, the more progress. Right after Sprint Planning there should …

Azure Test Plans Scrum