MPAB | 1 Day
Plan, track, and manage your team’s work with Azure Boards. This one-day course is designed to help agile teams configure and use Azure Boards to run the full cycle, from building and refining a Product Backlog to planning and managing a Sprint. You’ll work in teams in a shared project on a common case study, putting each capability to use the way a real agile team would.
Who should take this course?
This course is for anyone on a software development team, especially those who create and refine a product backlog or plan and execute work within a sprint. It’s equally valuable for people outside the development team, including managers, Scrum Masters, coaches, and other stakeholders, who want hands-on exposure to what Azure Boards can do. Some project management and software development experience, as a team member or a manager, is recommended. Experience with agile development, Scrum, and Visual Studio is helpful but not required. Attendees should read and be familiar with the Scrum Guide prior to class.
Course Content
This course progressively builds your fluency with Azure Boards, from setting up a project and building a Product Backlog to planning and managing a Sprint. You’ll work hands-on in teams on a common case study in a shared project, the way a real agile team would.
1. Introduction to Azure Boards
- Azure DevOps overview
- Azure Boards overview
- Creating and configuring a project
- Securing a project
- Teams, profiles, and notifications
- Extending Azure Boards
- Creating and using a wiki
- Hands-on lab
2. The Product Backlog
- Process overview
- Working with the backlog
- Product Backlog Item vs. Bug work item types
- Features and Epics backlogs
- Decomposing large items
- The Kanban board
- Tagging, querying, and charting work items
- Hands-on lab
3. Planning and Managing a Sprint
- Planning a Sprint: Goal, forecast, and plan
- Setting up the Sprint and the Sprint Backlog
- The Task and Test Case work item types
- Working with the Task Board
- Collaborating as a team and daily activities
- Pairing, swarming, and mobbing
- Implementing a Definition of Done
- Assessing and tracking progress
- Completing a Sprint and splitting unfinished items
- Hands-on lab