Joachim Rossberg
Agile Project Management with Azure DevOpsConcepts, Templates, and Metrics
Joachim Rossberg
Kungsbacka, Sweden
ISBN 978-1-4842-4482-1e-ISBN 978-1-4842-4483-8
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To my kids, Amelie and Eddie.

Love you forever.

Introduction

Throughout the years, many things have happened with Team Foundation Server (TFS) and the Visual Studio Team System. The product has gone through several names and is now called Azure DevOps and Azure DevOps Server. It’s kind of hard to keep track of them all.

This book is written with Agile leaders in mind, such as product owners, Scrum masters, Agile project/product managers, and the like. Members of Agile teams can benefit a lot as well.

In this book, I write about how we can use the features and functionality of Azure DevOps, and customize our work process. I cover Kanban board customizations in both Azure DevOps and Azure DevOps Server/TFS.

In Chapter 1 , we start with a brief introduction to a concept called application life cycle management , which, to this day, I still think describes the areas of DevOps well. After that, we look at DevOps (Chapter 2 ) and then at Agile concepts (Chapter 3 ) such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and more. In Chapters 4 and 5 , I talk about the underlying logic of Azure DevOps. You will see what work items are and how we can customize them to fit our way of working. Chapter 6 covers Agile practices in Azure DevOps. We examine things like test-driven development, the Scaled Agile Framework, (SAFe) framework, and how we can use Azure DevOps to implement SAFe and more. Before we look at a fictional project implementation in Chapter 8 , Chapter 7 takes you through some Agile metrics that are good to monitor.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:​ Introduction to Application Life Cycle Management 1
Aspects of the ALM Process 2
Four Ways of Looking at ALM 7
The SDLC View 9
The Service Management or Operations View 11
The APM View 11
The Unified View 12
Three Pillars of Traditional ALM 13
Traceability 14
Automation of High-Level Processes 15
Visibility into the Progress of Development Efforts 15
A Brief History of ALM Tools and Concepts 16
ALM 1.​0 18
ALM 2.​0 22
ALM 2.​0+ 26
DevOps 29
Azure DevOps Introduction 31
Summary 35
Chapter 2:​ An Overview of Azure DevOps 37
ALM Overview 37
Azure DevOps Overview 39
Team Foundation Server 41
Process Template 42
Visual Studio 2017 Editions 44
Azure DevOps 46
Microsoft Office 46
IDE Integration 47
Traceability 47
The Azure DevOps Work Item Tracking System 48
Visibility 57
Collaboration 58
Work Items for Collaboration 60
The Gap between IT and Business 61
Use of One Tool/​Role Based 63
Extensibility 63
Difference between TFS and Azure DevOps 64
Summary 66
Chapter 3:​ Introduction to Scrum and Agile Concepts 67
The Scrum Framework 67
Empirical Process Control 69
Complexity in Projects 71
What Scrum Is 73
Deliverables in Scrum 78
Events in Scrum 80
Definition of Done 84
Agile Requirements and Estimation 88
During the Sprint 95
Kanban 97
Start with What You Do Now 99
Agree to Pursue Incremental, Evolutionary Change 99
Respect the Current Process, Roles, Responsibilities​, and Titles 99
The Five Core Properties 100
Common Models Used to Understand Work in Kanban 103
eXtreme Programming 104
Scaling Agile 106
Scrum of Scrums 107
SAFe 109
NEXUS–SPS 117
Large-Scale Scrum 120
How Agile Maps to ALM 121
Agile Captures Task-Based Work 122
There Is Increased Frequency of Inspection 122
Many Tools Collect Much Information 122
Test Artifacts Are Important 123
Agile Teams Plan Frequently 123
Summary 123
Chapter 4:​ Work Items and Process Templates 125
ALM Revisited 125
Traceability 126
The Azure DevOps Work Item Tracking System 127
Work Items 129
The Process in Azure DevOps 141
Scrum, Agile, and CMMI 142
Summary 157
Chapter 5:​ Customizing the Process Template in Azure DevOps 159
Process Customization 159
Modifying the Process Template in TFS 2018 On-Premise 160
Common Adaptations of the Process Template 163
Modifying the Process Template in Azure DevOps 176
Summary 195
Chapter 6:​ Agile Practices in Azure DevOps and TFS 197
Agile Testing 198
Acceptance Criteria 199
Evolving Tests 201
Clients for Managing Tests 203
TDD and Automated Testing 206
Test-Driven Development 206
Working with Automated Tests 207
Continuous Integration/​Continuous Delivery 209
Continuous Integration 209
Why Continuous Integration?​ 210
Continuous Delivery 213
Azure Pipelines 215
Coding Standards 216
Refactoring 217
Pair Programming 218
SAFe in Azure DevOps 219
Nexus in Azure DevOps 224
Why Not a Dedicated Team for the Nexus Integration Team?​ 227
Further Improvements 227
Summary 228
Chapter 7:​ Metrics in Agile Projects 229
Metrics for Project Management 230
Agile Metrics 230
Metrics for Architecture, Analysis, and Design 235
Metrics for Developer Practices 237
Code Coverage 238
Code Metrics 238
Compiler Warnings 238
Code Analysis Warnings 238
Metrics for Software Testing 239
Example Reports 240
Bug Trend Report 242
Metrics for Release Management 243
Example Reports 244
Using Charts to Monitor Metrics 247
Summary 249
Chapter 8:​ Agile Project Management in Azure DevOps and TFS 251
Case Study 252
Company Background 252
The Pilot Project 252
Project Startup Phase 254
Starting Work 254
Building the Initial Team 255
Creating New Teams 257
Creating the Backlog and Team Structure for the MyHealthClinic Pilot 260
Building the Teams 262
Adding Team Members 263
Managing Azure DevOps Groups, Teams, and User’s Permission 266
Managing Notifications 268
Requirements 270
Building the Backlog 272
Definition of Done 274
Estimation 277
Risk Assessment 278
Refining the Backlog 279
Initial Velocity 280
Available Time 280
Capacity Planning in Azure DevOps 281
Initial Sprint Planning 282
Updating Backlog and PBI 285
Forecast in Azure DevOps 287
Release Planning 288
Epics 288
Estimated Time Plan 290
Estimated Project Cost 290
Scrum Meetings during a Sprint 291
Sprint Planning 292
Daily Standup 299
Retrieving Data from Azure DevOps 301
Backlog Refinement 304
Sprint Review 304
Sprint Retrospective 305
Summary 306
Index 307

About the Author and About the Technical Reviewer

About the Author

Joachim Rossberg
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is an expert in Agile project management, SAFe, DevOps processes, and Azure DevOps/TFS, working for Solidify in Sweden. An IT consultant for more than two decades, primarily in the role of product owner, Agile coach and trainer, and project manager, he has extensive experience as a system developer and designer and holds certifications in PSM I & II, SAFe SPC, PSPO I, PSD I, CSPO, and PAL I. He is the author of seven books.

 

About the Technical Reviewer

Gregor Suttie
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lives near Glasgow, Scotland, and has been in the IT industry for 20-plus years. He started with Visual Basic 6 and Com +, along with Visual Interdev and the original Active Server Pages. After that period in his career, he moved on to .Net and has been developing with it since its original release. More recently, he has been concentrating on learning Azure, which he had never used until the end of 2018.

During the last quarter of 2018, Gregor sat for eight Azure beta exams and received most of his results by January 2019. He is a certified Azure developer and is one transition exam away from being a certified Azure architect. He is still waiting for the results of his Azure DevOps beta exam.

Gregor has a passion for learning, and you can access his blog at http://gregorsuttie.com and on twitter at @gregor_suttie. He is enthusiastic about Azure and DevOps, and he has been using them daily at work and has learning more about Azure DevOps since its release. Every week he discovers something new. When the opportunity arose to be a technical reviewer for a book about Azure DevOps, he jumped at the chance!

The book covers a few different areas, but its guts cover Azure Boards and how to go about using this feature successfully. Gregor hopes you enjoy reading the book as much as he did reviewing it.

 
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