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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 ...

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 ...

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

August 6, 2019 Aug 6, 2019 08/6/19
Romi Koifman
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 Boards Project Paper Cuts

April 2, 2019 Apr 2, 2019 04/2/19
Ali Tai
We recognize that throughout the years, Azure Boards's workflows have accumulated smaller issues and usability nitpicks which have failed to become part of bigger product initiatives. This is where Project Paper Cuts comes in.