Azure DevOps Blog

New Boards Hub, Sprint 208 Update

August 2, 2022 Aug 2, 2022 08/2/22

Dan Hellem

Since the March announcement of the New Boards Hub, our team has collected a lot of your feedback. Thank you! We have been hard at work addressing the issues. Every week the experience gets better and better. The issues backlog is getting smaller, and we are getting closer to where we can enable the New Boards Hub as the primary experience. We...

Azure Boards Summer Update

July 14, 2022 Jul 14, 2022 07/14/22

Dan Hellem

Over these last few months, our team has been working hard at delivering new value in Azure Boards. We would like to take a moment to highlight some of the most recently released features. Be sure to check out the Features Timeline for updates and our product roadmap. New Boards Hub Modernizing the user experience for the Azure Boards Hubs ...

Content archived for Azure DevOps previous versions

July 12, 2022 Jul 12, 2022 07/12/22

Kathryn Elliott

​In April of this year, we completed a major project to archive older versions of our content.  For several years now, we've supported content for all Azure DevOps versions. These versions included TFS 2013 through Azure DevOps Services. Users viewed the content for their versions through the content version ...

July patches for Azure DevOps Server

July 12, 2022 Jul 12, 2022 07/12/22

Gloridel Morales

This month, we are releasing fixes that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. The following will be fixed with this patch: Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.2 Patch 1 If you have Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.1, you should first update to Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.2. Once on Update 1.2, install Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.2 Patch ...

DevOps Dojo – UX/Accessibility

June 20, 2022 Jun 20, 2022 06/20/22

DevOps Dojo

“I took the road less traveled, and that has made all the difference. It always seems impossible until it's done, and that is what motivates me to work on something that hasn't been done before. It wasn’t easy bringing the two worlds of DevOps and accessibility to the same page, but we knew it had to be done. I don't take accessibility ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 17.06.2022

June 17, 2022 Jun 17, 2022 06/17/22

April Edwards

Last weekend was the Scottish Summit, while this event is local to the UK, people flew in globally to speak and attend one of the best Azure events around! There were so many great sessions from technical folks in the community and an amazing keynote from Dona Sarkar about accessibility. I am April Edwards and every week I try to bring you ...

Copy a work item type using Azure DevOps API’s

June 9, 2022 Jun 9, 2022 06/9/22

Art Garcia

So, we all love how we can manage engagements in Azure DevOps (ADO). We can create Epics, Features, User Stories and track our progress on Kanban boards. You can customize work item types to suit the needs of your business and project with ease. What if you wanted to copy a work item type you created and use it for another business case? There...

DevOps Dojo – OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)

June 8, 2022 Jun 8, 2022 06/8/22

DevOps Dojo

In the Dojo White Belt Master Class, the first session is OKR fundamentals. In this session, we answer these top 20 questions related to OKRs, then we ask participants to set their team OKRs for the rest of the class. Every day, each team checks their progress towards their committed OKRs and aspirational OKRs. On the ...

DevOps Dojo: Lean Product – Part 3

June 7, 2022 Jun 7, 2022 06/7/22

DevOps Dojo

In Part 1 and Part 2 of the DevOps Dojo – Lean Product series, we covered the why, what, and how of the product-centric model and lean product model as outlined in the White & Orange Belts of the DevOps Dojo. In this third and last part of the Lean Product series, we will take on a view from 10,000 feet above and explore how adopting a ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 04.06.2022

June 3, 2022 Jun 3, 2022 06/3/22

April Edwards

(image) 'Don't Accept the Defaults' -Abel Wang I am April Edwards and every week I try to bring you the latest updates from around the DevOps on Azure community. If you have a post you’d like to have me include, I am always listening. You can reach out on Twitter or LinkedIn and I will be sure to share your latest post with the community...