Dan Hellem

New in Azure Boards Sprint 174

August 17th, 2020

The Azure Boards team has been hard at work fixing bugs and shipping new features. We have a few features that are now generally available as well as few public preview features. Check out all of the Azure Boards Sprint 174 goodies

Azure Boards Summer Update

July 10th, 2020

The summer of 2020 has been busy for the Azure Boards team. We are actively pushing out new features and fixing bugs. Over the next couple of sprints, we plan on delivering some exciting new features. Here are some of the things we recently completed and some features coming soon.

How to hide or edit the reason field in Azure DevOps

June 10th, 2020

In this blog post we will share a couple work arounds for those customers who would like to hide or customize the reason field.

TF221122: An error occurred running job Work Item Tracking Warehouse Sync for team project collection

June 8th, 2020

When running Azure DevOps Server, or previous versions for TFS, you may come across this error... TF53010: The following error has occurred in a Team Foundation component or extension: Detailed Message: TF221122: An error occurred running job Work Item Tracking Warehouse Sync for team project collection or Team Foundation server TPC01...

New in Azure Boards sprint 170

May 29th, 2020

Checkout out the new features in Azure Boards sprint 170

Team Safety with the Anonymous Fist to Five method

September 19th, 2019

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 ...

New Basic Process Available in Azure DevOps

February 14th, 2019

Our new Basic Process is now available in Azure DevOps. This process is light and simple so you can get started working immediately without having to understand any complex concepts. Give it a try today.

Announcing new REST API’s for Process Customization

September 14th, 2018

In the new 5.0 (preview) version we combined the two inherited REST API's under a single domain. Making it much easier to determine what REST API endpoints to use. What domain you need depends on the process model used by your projects.

Moving from Hosted XML Process to Inherited Process – Generally Available

August 22nd, 2018

Last month we announced a private preview that allows you to move projects that use a Hosted XML process to an Inherited process. We received a fare share of feedback, watched the telemetry, and made some fixes. This week we announced that the feature is now generally available! If you are using Hosted XML, and you are ready to move to the ...

Moving from Hosted XML process to Inheritance process – Private Preview

July 6th, 2018

VSTS provides two process customization models, Hosted XML and Inheritance. Hosted XML was designed to allow your customizations to come with you when migrating from TFS. The Inheritance process model is the future of process customization in VSTS. It's simple yet powerful. As more customers import their work into VSTS we have received a lot ...