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The Agile process supports the following work item types (WITs) to plan and track work, tests, feedback, and code review. With different WITs you can track different types of work—such as features, user stories, and tasks. These artifacts are created when you create a project using the Agile process. They're based on Agile principles and values.
Along with the WITs, teams have access to a set of work item queries to track information, analyze progress, and make decisions.
Note
You can customize the work tracking system for your project by creating and customizing an inherited process and applying that process to your project. To learn more, see Inheritance process model.
Note
You can customize the work tracking system for your project by customizing an Inherited process or an On-premises XML process. To learn more, see Inheritance process model or On-premises XML process customization.
The latest version of each process uploads automatically when you install or upgrade to the latest version of Azure DevOps Server. Additional artifacts, such as SQL Server reports are only available when you connect to a project. Other resource requirements apply.
Note
You can customize the work tracking system for your project by customizing an On-premises XML process. To learn more, see On-premises XML process customization.
The latest version of each process uploads automatically when you install or upgrade to the latest version of Azure DevOps Server. Additional artifacts, such as SQL Server reports are only available when you connect to a project. Other resource requirements apply.
Plan and track work with Agile
You build your project plan by creating a backlog of user stories that represent the work you want to develop and ship. You track bugs, tasks, and blocking issues using the bug, task, and issue WITs. To support portfolio management, teams create features and epics to view a roll up of user stories within or across teams. For details about using Agile WITs, see Agile process work item types and workflow.
The essential flow for getting started is as shown. To get started using Scrum or Kanban tools, see Get started with Agile tools to plan and track work.
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A work item is a database record that contains the definition, assignment, priority, and state of work. Work item types define the template of fields, workflow, and form for each type. Work items can be linked to each other to support tracking dependencies, roll up of work, and reports.
You can manage your workload more effectively by frequently reviewing the status of user stories and tasks. You can use the shared work item queries to list work items for a current sprint or the product backlog.
Note
New projects no longer define a default set of Shared Queries at the time of project creation. The definitions for Shared Queries have been removed from the process template. For on-premises deployments, you can add them to a custom process template as described in Add work item queries to a process template.
Descriptions of predefined queries are listed later in this article.
You can view and run queries from the web portal or from the Team Explorer plug-in to Visual Studio. You can modify a query using the query editor to apply different filter criteria. Also, you can add queries to team dashboards.
If you are new to Azure Boards, work tracking, and shared queries, review these tips to learn how you can manage work more effectively:
To find work items that are assigned to you, add @Me as the value for the Assigned To field in one of the query clauses.
All valid users with standard access can create queries and folders under the My Queries area. To create queries and query folders under Shared Queries, you must have the Contribute permission set and have been assigned Basic access or greater. For more information, see Set permissions on queries.
You can modify any query by adding criteria to focus on a product area, an iteration, or another field. To modify a query, open the query editor.
You can open any query in Excel where you can update the fields of one or more work items and publish your changes to the database for tracking work items.
You can visualize status or progress by creating a pie-chart, column chart, or trend chart for flat-list queries.
Important
Starting with Visual Studio 2019, the Azure DevOps plug-in for Office has deprecatedsupport for Microsoft Project. Project integration and the TFSFieldMapping command is not supported for Azure DevOps Server 2019 and later versions, including Azure DevOps Services. You can continue to use Microsoft Excel.
Monitor progress
All processes—Agile, Scrum, and CMMI—support building status and trend charts and dashboards. Also, several charts are automatically built based on the Agile tools you use. These charts display within the web portal.
Create light-weight charts
To get started, you can define a shared flat query and create a chart based on your tracking interests. Chart types include status—pie, bar, column, stacked bar, and pivot—and trend—stacked area, line, and area—charts.
Analytics widgets and Power BI reports
The Analytics Service can answer quantitative questions about the past or present state of your projects. You can add Analytics widgets to a dashboard or use Power BI to create charts and reports.
To learn more, see What is the Analytics Service?
SQL Server reports
If your project collection and the project are configured with SQL Server Analysis Services and Reporting Services, you'll have access to many Agile reports. For these reports to be useful, teams must complete certain activities, such as define build processes, link work items, and update status or remaining work.
If you need to add reporting services or update reports to the latest versions, see Add reports to a project.
Before you start tracking work, you must have a project. To create one, see Create a project.
If you have a project, start tracking work:
Add work items to manage a project - to gain more familiarity with the work item form features
Create a backlog - to develop your product backlog
Kanban - to start working in Kanban
Plan a sprint - to start working in Scrum
Excel.
For more information on Agile tools:
Team assets
Best tool to add, update, and link work items
Agile process versions
As updates are made to the Agile process template, the version number is updated. The following table provides a mapping of the versioning applied as updates are made to the Azure DevOps on-premises process templates. For Azure Boards, the latest version is always used. Each template provides a version element. This element specifies a major and minor version.
On-premises version
Agile process name
Major version
Azure DevOps Services Azure DevOps Server 2022
Agile
18
Azure DevOps Server 2020 Azure DevOps Server 2019
Agile
17
TFS 2018
Agile
16
For a summary of updates made to process templates, see Changes made to process templates.
Agile process predefined queries
Product backlog and feedback queries
Product owners can use the shared queries that are defined in the following table to plan and track user stories that compose the product backlog.
Shared query
Description
Product Backlog
Provides a tree list of all user stories that are in a New, Active or Resolved state and sorts them by rank.
Product Planning
Provides a flat list of all user stories that are not in a Removed state, and have not been closed in the last 90 days.
Feedback
Lists all feedback responses that are in an Active state.
Iteration planning queries
The following table describes the shared queries that are listed under the Current Iteration folder. These queries find work items that are assigned to a specified iteration. As you plan more iterations, you can modify these queries to specify a different iteration and then save them to other folders that you create, such as Iteration 2 or Iteration 3.
The project administrator for each project defines area and iteration paths for that project so that the team can track progress by those designations.
Shared query
Description
Active Bugs
Lists all active bugs and sorts them by rank, priority, and severity.
Active Tasks
Lists all active tasks and sorts them by rank, priority, and severity.
Bug Triage
Lists all active bugs that aren't assigned to a team member.
The Triage Workbook references this query.
Completed Tasks
Lists all tasks that have been closed and sorts them by rank, priority, and severity.
Iteration Backlog
Lists all user stories and their linked tasks and sorts the stories by rank and priority.
Open Issues
Lists all issues under the specified iteration path that aren't closed and any tasks that are linked to the issues and then sorts the issues by rank and priority.
The Issues Workbook references this query.
Open Test Cases
Lists all test cases that aren't closed and sorts them by priority.
Open User Stories
Lists all active user stories and sorts them by their stack rank.
Resolved Bugs
Lists all resolved bugs and sorts them by rank, priority, and severity.
User Stories
Lists all user stories that aren't closed and sorts them by priority and then ID,
User Stories without Test Cases
Lists all user stories that don't have a link to a test case. Stories are sorted by ID.
Tip
Queries listed under the Current Iteration folder do not automatically update when a new iteration becomes current. The current iteration is based on the dates that you assign to your sprint schedules. You must manually update the iteration path of each query to have it point to the iteration path that corresponds to the current iteration. Or, you can edit the shared query to use the @CurrentIteration macro.
Find tasks with summary values
The Work Items With Summary Values shared query, which is located in the Troubleshooting folder, lists all tasks that have child tasks and that contain non-zero values in the Remaining Work or Completed Work fields. This query is designed to find tasks that report work effort that is already accounted for in their child tasks. For the hours to be counted only once, summary tasks shouldn't be assigned any hours. For more information, see Address inaccuracies published for summary values.
The work tracking objects contained within the default processes and process templates—Basic, Agile, CMMI, and Scrum—are the same and summarized below. The Basic process is available from Azure DevOps Server 2019.1 and later versions. For simplicity, they're referred to as a "process."
This process works great if you want to track product backlog items (PBIs) and bugs on the Kanban board, or break PBIs and bugs down into tasks on the task board. Tasks support tracking remaining work only.
The Agile process supports the following work item types (WITs) to plan and track work, tests, feedback, and code review. With different WITs you can track different types of work—such as features, user stories, and tasks. These artifacts are created when you create a project using the Agile process.
Scrum is a popular Agile project management methodology that can help your team effectively complete projects, especially when quick turnarounds and multiple deliveries are required. One of the foundations of the Scrum framework is its three artifacts.
A process template defines the building blocks of the work item tracking system and other subsystems you access through Azure DevOps. Process templates are only used with the Hosted XML and On-premises XML process models. You customize projects by modifying and importing process template XML definition files.
Choose Projects. For the project you want to change, choose the actions icon and select Change process and follow the steps in the wizard. Choose the Agile process that you want to change to and then choose Save. You can select the system Agile process or an inherited Agile process.
Agile is an equal opportunity team: every member of the scrum can do every job within the team, which prevents slowdowns and bottlenecks. DevOps, on the other hand, assumes separate teams for development and operations. People stay within their teams, but they all communicate frequently.
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Test artifacts are by-products that are generated or created while performing software testing. These generated test artifacts are then shared with clients and testing team or team managers, team leaders, stakeholders associated with project, and also with members of other team.
A project artifact is the documentation a company produces that defines and supports a project's process. Artifacts typically relate to project management and include documents, outputs, specific deliverables, objectives and templates.
A user story is a well-formed, short and simple description of a software requirement from the perspective of an end-user, written in an informal and natural language. It is the main artifact used in the agile software development process to capture user requirements.
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Templates are pre-formatted documents designed to create commonly used document types such as letters, fax forms, or envelopes. Some of the advantages of using templates are: Templates simplify the creation of documents.
A process template consists of basic data, processes, and the assigned activity types. The basic data includes the title, status, and person responsible. A process template consists of processes in a specified sequence. A set of activity types is assigned to each process.
Use templates to define your logic once and then reuse it several times. Templates combine the content of multiple YAML files into a single pipeline. You can pass parameters into a template from your parent pipeline.
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A process template is a documentation product such as a process map, process matrix, or process model. Process templates are created to describe some aspect of a process, a process landscape, process flow, process solution, or state. In enterprise architecture, these would be called artifacts.
Use templates to define your logic once and then reuse it several times. Templates combine the content of multiple YAML files into a single pipeline. You can pass parameters into a template from your parent pipeline.
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With Azure Boards, you gain the advantage of full integration with the Azure DevOps platform. Azure DevOps is designed to provide end-to-end traceability, tracking work from requirements to deployment.
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