If you are using Azure Boards to manage your projects, you might have encountered a situation where you want to see the progress of a parent work item based on the status of its child work items. For example, you might want to see how many tasks are completed for a user story, or how many bugs are resolved for a feature. This is where the rollup column comes in handy.
The rollup column is a custo...
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One of the most challenging aspects of software development is estimating how much time and resources a project will require. Many factors can affect the accuracy of the estimates, such as the complexity of the requirements, the availability of the team members, the quality of the code, and the unpredictability of the environment. In this blog post, we will explore how Azure DevOps can help you cr...
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Reporting is a part of communication that you should do to the client. One way to report the progress of the project is by giving the client real world progress that done in Azure Boards. To do that we need to create queries that can be used to create the report that can be sent to the customer. On this article, I will share you the five queries that you can use for your sprint review as well as w...
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Hello, today we will apply Agile Project Management in Azure Boards. This tutorial allows you to plan, create, manage, and track the software project by using Azure Boards. Azure boards are part of Azure DevOps. It can be obtained from dev.azure.com. The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to implement Agile Project Management in Azure Boards. For example, you need to create project propos...
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Understand your semantic career
Information technology (IT) is a broad and diverse field that encompasses many aspects of computing, networking, security, data, and software development. IT professionals are in high demand in various sectors and industries, such as finance, health care, education, entertainment, and government. But how can you understand your IT career and make the most of it...
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Visual Studio is a powerful and versatile integrated development environment (IDE) that supports multiple programming languages, platforms, and frameworks. However, even with such a rich set of tools and features, programming can still be challenging and time-consuming. That's why Visual Studio leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to help programmers write better code faster and easier.
AI can ...
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Microsoft Project is a powerful tool for project management, but it can also be challenging to use effectively. In this blog post, we will share some tips and best practices for monitoring your project progress, status, and performance with Microsoft Project.
Define your project scope, schedule, and budget clearly and realistically. Before you start tracking your project, you need to have a clear...
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One of my collages asks me how to obtain azure board data to excel. On this article, we will obtain the azure board data in azure devops into the excel
Certainly! Here are two approaches to extract data from Azure DevOps and get it into an Excel spreadsheet:
1.Using Azure DevOps Query and Export
- Step 1: Open your Azure DevOps project.
- Step 2: Create a query th...
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Azure virtual machines (VMs) are one of the most popular cloud computing services that allow you to run applications and workloads on-demand. However, running VMs can also incur significant costs if you are not careful about how you use them. In this blog post, we will share some tips on how to save cost in Azure VMs without compromising performance or reliability.
Tip 1: Choose the right VM size...
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.NET 8 is launching, and Visual Studio 2022 is also updating into 17.8 version. One of the most promising features in Visual Studio 2022 is the better support for GitHub Copilot Chat that in General Availability (aka stable). You can read the release notes here Visual Studio 2022 Release Notes | Microsoft Learn. There are two ways to use GitHub Copilot. The first one is using GitHub Copilot and th...
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