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Azure Boards Summer Update

Dan HellemJuly 10, 2020Jul 10, 202007/10/20

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.

An alternative to the Azure DevOps App in the Microsoft Teams app store

Divya VaishnaviJune 14, 2020Jun 14, 202006/14/20

Guidance to move to new suite of specific apps for Azure DevOps in Microsoft Teams

How to hide or edit the reason field in Azure DevOps

Dan HellemJune 10, 2020Jun 10, 202006/10/20

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

New in Azure Boards sprint 170

Dan HellemMay 29, 2020May 29, 202005/29/20

Checkout out the new features in Azure Boards sprint 170

An Alternative to VSTS App in Slack app store

Divya VaishnaviMay 12, 2020May 12, 202005/12/20

Apps for Azure Pipelines, Azure Boards and Azure Repos in Slack app store as an alternative to VSTS App in Slack app store

A Sprint Burndown widget with everything you’ve been asking for

Gregg BoerNovember 19, 2019Nov 19, 201911/19/19

Sprint burndown the way you want. Burndown by Story Points, count of Tasks, custom fields. Create burndowns on Epics, Features, Stories. Resize to 10x10.

Track the progress of work using Rollup columns

Romi KoifmanSeptember 30, 2019Sep 30, 201909/30/19

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 ...

Team Safety with the Anonymous Fist to Five method

Dan HellemSeptember 19, 2019Sep 19, 201909/19/19

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 ...

Get insights into your team’s health with Azure Boards Reports

Romi KoifmanAugust 6, 2019Aug 6, 201908/6/19

You can’t fix what you can’t see. That’s why high executing teams want to keep a close eye on the state and health of their work processes. Now its easier for teams to track important metrics with minimal effort right inside Azure Boards. Introducing three new reports to Azure Boards: Sprint Burndown, Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD), Velocity.

Azure Pipelines integration with Jira Software

Shashank BansalJuly 12, 2019Jul 12, 201907/12/19

Azure Pipelines enable you to continuously build, test and deploy to any platform or cloud. This plugin connects Jira Software with Azure Pipelines, enabling full tracking of how and when an issue is delivered.

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