Hands-on Azure Boards : Configuring and Customizing Process Workflows in Azure DevOps Services

✍ Scribed by Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understand and explore the features and management of Azure Boards with this book, which also covers Azure Boards configuration and advanced administration. This book starts by setting up projects with Azure DevOps and gives an overview of Azure Boards and its features. You will then learn to set up team projects and how to effectively use Azure Boards to plan and execute work.
Hands-on Azure Boards explains customizations, where you will understand the available options to track your work considering different scenarios. Next, you will learn visualizing with queries, charts, and dashboards along with reporting of Azure Boards. The author gives you hands-on lessons to set up Azure Boards and shows you how to handle multiple modules that are taken care of by different teams.
You will also explore the security options in Azure Boards as well as a detailed demonstration of working with the REST API and CLI. Finally, you will work with useful extensions for Azure Boards and see how to use them more effectively and efficiently. After reading this book, you will be able to work with the Azure Boards capabilities available in Azure DevOps on-premise server and services to improve your software delivery process.
What You Will Learn

• Plan and manage work with Azure Boards
• Use the REST API and command line interface with Azure Boards
• Extend Azure Boards with useful extensions to enhance its capabilities
• Customize Azure Boards to adapt it to your process
• Report and visualize work progress with Azure Boards

Who This Book Is For
Anyone working in Azure DevOps developing applications targeting any platform using any language.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Getting Started with Azure Boards (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 1-41
Setting Up a Team Project (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 43-85
Working with Backlogs and Boards (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 87-122
Work Item Notifications, Tags, and Customization (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 123-155
Customizing the Process (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 157-188
Visualizing and Reporting in Azure Boards (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 189-222
Handling a Large Team in a Team Project (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 223-247
Azure DevOps Security Options (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 249-283
Working with REST APIs and the CLI (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 285-303
Using Extensions with Azure Boards and Linking with GitHub (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 305-345
Back Matter ....Pages 347-353

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Microsoft and .NET; Computer Applications