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September 2019 - Azure DevOps Blog

Track the progress of work using Rollup columns

September 30, 2019 Sep 30, 2019 09/30/19
Romi Koifman
How is our Feature progressing? As simple and common as this question is, it’s a hard one to answer. Especially if your Feature is complex and is composed of multiple User Stories and Tasks. With Sprint 157 Update you will be able to answer this using Rollup in Azure Boards backlog view. What is rollup? Rollup is an aggregation displayed ...

Azure DevOps Demo Generator is now open source

September 26, 2019 Sep 26, 2019 09/26/19
Dave McKinstry
The Azure DevOps Demo Generator is a community operated service that provisions template-based projects inside your Azure DevOps organization. Today we've published the source code for Demo Generator under the MIT License and welcome community participation. We've also enabled the ability to generate and use your own custom templates!

Team Safety with the Anonymous Fist to Five method

September 19, 2019 Sep 19, 2019 09/19/19
Dan Hellem
The success of any agile team is built on the shoulders of its individuals and their ability to work as a team. Those individuals need to feel safe to express their ideas and thoughts without other members passing judgement on each other. For every great idea your team has, there are dozens of other ideas that don't stick. If team members are ...