Agile Project Management with Azure DevOps

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction to Application Life Cycle Management

   • Joachim Rossberg

   Pages 1-36

3. An Overview of Azure DevOps

   • Joachim Rossberg

   Pages 37-66

4. Introduction to Scrum and Agile Concepts

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   Pages 67-123

5. Work Items and Process Templates

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   Pages 125-157

6. Customizing the Process Template in Azure DevOps

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   Pages 159-195

7. Agile Practices in Azure DevOps and TFS

   • Joachim Rossberg

   Pages 197-228

8. Metrics in Agile Projects

   • Joachim Rossberg

   Pages 229-249

9. Agile Project Management in Azure DevOps and TFS

   • Joachim Rossberg

   Pages 251-306

10. Back Matter

    Pages 307-315

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Roll up your sleeves and jump into Agile project management to use and customize Microsoft Azure DevOps. Organizations adopt Agile practices because they are a key enabler to run better projects, get more successful end results, and achieve an overall higher quality output. To benefit the most from Agile, you need an Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) or DevOps toolset that supports your style and work environment. 

Agile Project Management with Azure DevOps teaches you how to use Azure DevOps to implement many Agile practices such as SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban, and it shows you how they fit into a well-planned Agile implementation. Agile product owners will learn how to work with Azure DevOps to set up a project from scratch, and to continue using Azure DevOps throughout. 

Keeping track of progress is important in any project. Author Joachim Rossberg teaches you about the tools in Azure DevOps that can help you track progress and key metrics, including those that are available right out of the box. You will learn how to create and refine the backlog, work with Kanban and Scrum task boards, and get exposed to valuable key concepts along the way. Finally, you will dive into Azure DevOps extensibility to learn about the many ways you can customize reporting to best meet your needs

What You'll Learn

• Understand Agile product management concepts and processes for working with Azure DevOps 
  
• Discover how Azure DevOps supports agile processes end-to-end
  
• Implement Agile processes in Azure DevOps
  
• Customize Azure DevOps to better support your processes
  
• Complete step-by-step setup of an Agile project from scratch and manage it through its life cycle
  

Who This Book Is For

Software product owners, Agile leaders, Scrum masters, and software engineers who use Microsoft Azure DevOps. A basic understanding of Agile is helpful. 

• Azure DevOps
• Team Foundation Server
• Visual Studio Team System
• Agile Azure
• Microsoft DevOps
• SAFe in TFS
• Kanban in TFS
• Scrum in TFS
• Reporting in Azure DevOps
• XP practices in TFS
• Agile Project management in Team Foundation Server
• Metrics for Agile project management in TFS

“The book is focused on novice project managers or people with experience in other non-agile methodologies, such as the rational unified process (RUP). … this book could be a first approach to Azure DevOps for readers with some experience in software project management. While it is a very basic book, people with some experience in Scrum could find the chapters related to Azure interesting, especially if they are looking to start using that platform.” (Santiago Vidal, Computing Reviews, July 8, 2021)

• Kungsbacka, Sweden

  Joachim Rossberg

Joachim Rossberg is an expert in Agile project management, SAFe, DevOps processes, and Azure DevOps/TFS, working for Solidify in Sweden. An IT consultant for more than two decades, primarily in the role of product owner, Agile coach and trainer, and project manager, he has extensive experience as a system developer and designer and holds certifications in PSM I & II, SAFe SPC, PSPO I, PSD I, and CSPO, and PAL. He is the author of seven books.  

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