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Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.10.18
It is the fall conference season, which means that this blog may be brought to you from a different geographical location every week. This week I had the privilege of speaking at All Things Open, and a chance to visit our Raleigh, NC office for the first time ever. Are you participating in any fun events this fall?
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.10.11
Delivering software, especially in a large organization, is as much about writing code as about successful project and process management. In this week's community update, we take a look at various ways to visualize and extend the process management tasks in Azure DevOps. Happy Friday!
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.10.04
Time flies, and it is October already. Pumpkins are everywhere, even in Azure DevOps. If you are looking for a fun automation project for Halloween, check out our last story for this week!
What’s new in Azure DevOps Sprint 158
Sprint 158 just finished rolling out to all organizations and you can check out all the cool features in the release notes. This post covers just some of the features that you can start using today.
Track the progress of work using Rollup columns
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 on a parent item (like Epic, Feature or even User story) calculated based on parent child relationships. For example, at the Feature backlog you can track progress of each of the Features based on the sum of Story Points for the completed linked User Stories. Learn more about ...
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.09.27
Whether or not you are an optimist, many jobs in technology teach you to anticipate and protect against the worst-case scenario. In this week's community stories, we learn more about the importance of automated testing and the perils of edge cases in Site Reliability Engineering. Let's get started!
Azure DevOps Demo Generator is now open source
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!
What’s new in Azure DevOps Sprint 157
Sprint 157 has just finished rolling out to all organizations and you can check out all the cool features in the release notes. This post covers just some of the features that you can start using today.
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.09.20
Do tools facilitate the adoption of DevOps culture, or is it the other way around? How important are the technical tools in helping us deliver value to our end-users with higher quality and less friction?