As a software developer, establishing a productive daily routine is crucial for success, especially when working within the Scrum framework and utilizing tools like Azure DevOps Boards and Visual Studio. Here are some best practices to help you optimize your workflow and enhance your development process.
Start your days with the plan
Developer can use planner and Microsoft to Do to plan their daily activities for today. Here are the tips.
Check your DevOps Board task, see what you need to do today
Update your planner with your Board task, you can read the DevOps boards task to Planner by using Power Automate.
Sync your Planner with Microsoft To Do
Collaborate with Your Teams
Do stand up meeting (daily scrum) and do strategic planning session for the next 24 hours. Engage actively, share your progress, and discuss any impediments you're facing. This is the time to synchronize with your team and adjust your sprint backlog if necessary.
Prioritize Your Days
Begin each day with a clear understanding of your goals. Review your sprint goals and the tasks assigned to you in Azure DevOps Boards. This will help you prioritize your work and focus on what needs to be accomplished for the day.
Coding and Commenting
Visual Studio is a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) that offers a plethora of features to streamline your coding tasks. Familiarize yourself with its debugging tools, code navigation features, and extensions that can enhance your productivity.
use Copilot Chat to learn the latest features and optimize your codes
use comment to document your thoughts and codes.
refactoring or optimize when the codes is working.
Code Review with your pairs
Code reviews are an integral part of the development process. Allocate time in your daily routine to review your peers' code and collaborate on solutions. This practice not only improves code quality but also fosters knowledge sharing within the team.
End Your Day with Reflection
At the end of your workday, take a moment to reflect on what you've accomplished and what could be improved. Update your tasks in Azure DevOps Boards and Planner for the next Daily Scrum. This reflection will help you stay organized and ready for the following day.
Don't forget to learn
Join applied skills, Microsoft Learn challenge, read a book or join MOOC to keep you continuous learning happen.
Suppose you want to become productive in 2021. You want to make yourself focus on your job, have more time with family, or enjoy the precious time with your loved one. This non-technical article will give you steps to get started and well planned in your work. We will discuss Microsoft To Do. You can use To Do at Welcome to Microsoft To Do. It was available on Web, Windows, iOS, and Android.
Microsoft To Do Positioning
Microsoft has several software related to tasks and plans. There are:
Outlook Tasks. It is stored beneath on your Email / Outlook / Exchange Online System. It builds for your personal use.
Office Planner. It is a new way to manage tasks for your works. It builds for your work use.
Microsoft To Do. It is a hub that connects between works and personal. It builds from Wunderlist, the well-known task management in the past.
As mentioned, Microsoft To Do connects with Outlook Tasks for your personal task, connects with Planner for your work task, or connect to the other software such as Bixby Reminder, Outlook Calendar, even Microsoft Launcher.
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How to use Microsoft To Do
These are the steps to use Microsoft To Do
Visit Welcome to To Do (microsoft.com) and click Get Started
Log in with your Microsoft 365 accounts so you can connect between your Outlook Tasks with Planner Task.
Download Microsoft To Do on Your Windows and Your Smartphone.
Activate your integration with Planner and Email Flags. Planner lets us you connect to company Planner that have tasks which is assigned to you. Email Flags let's To Do create a task based on your Follow Up email. My recommendation is to check the Planner but the turn of the Flagged Email. You can do that on Your Settings.
Activate and deactivate Smart Lists. Smart Lists will guide you to manage your task better.
Important – a task that has important flag
Planned – a task that has a deadline
Completed – a task that already completed
All – Show all task
Assigned to you – Tasks that assigned through Planner or To Do.
You can create List to categorize your Task. List is just like bucket that can store and organize the tasks that have similar purposes. For example, your hobby, your community, or your learning plan. My recommendation is to design It carefully by thinking it loud.
After creating the list, we can create a task. Microsoft To Do has a great approach by using My Day feature. My Day Feature basically organize what you need to do on a day. It is based on Task deadline and your ad-hoc task. It provides you a suggestion what task that you need to do. You just need to click the '+' sign to add and lamp icon to show the suggestion. You can sort the task based on your importance, due date, alphabet, and creation date. You can sort by clicking the '…' icon.
You can create task by clicking the Add Task bar. On a task you will have plenty things that you can put such as
Task Name
Sub Tasks
Reminder
Due Date
Repeat
Assign To (if you want to assign to your friend)
Add File (up to 25 MB / task)
Add Note ( a good idea to put link / brief)
After creating the task, you can put it on a list that we already created before.
That is it, hopefully you can use the Microsoft To Do for improving your productivity in 2021. Good Luck!
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