Azure DevOps has multiple ready made work item types, and they are usually more than enough to run normal agile software development. In this post I will cover what are the regular work item types and how they should be used.
By default Azure DevOps has four tiers of work items: Epic, Feature, User Story and Task/Bug. Bug can be configured to be in User Story level or in …
Work items are way to track work progress in Azure DevOps. They tell you what the team is currently working on, what is finished and what job is still to do. That’s it. OK in real world it is not that easy, because you have different kind of work to do, tickets are moving back and forth between being closed and active etc. To tackle all this chaos, I will …
In this week I stumbled again into very common Azure Devops guestion.
Where I can see the changelog?
Build based changelog is available at pipelines page, but Azure Devops has also deployment changelog, which is indeed quite well hidden under releases tab.
First open latest deployment from “Releases” tab, then click the “Stage 1” or what ever your stage name is under the Stages box (yes, it is a link …
Pipeline caching is here! This is something that I have been personally waiting for long time and I’m so happy that it is finally in preview.
Azure DevOps pipeline caching enables hosted build agent to cache NPM, Nuget, Yarn and almost any packages that are used during the build. Performance benefits varies based on how many packages are used and how often they are changed.
Pipeline caching is …
Today I was asked to build the Azure Function which removes existing link between work items from Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps documentation has an example about this method call, but the documentation itself is quite thin.
To delete only certain type of link we need to first load the work item from Azure DevOps and then try to find the index of link we want to delete. When loading work …
Our company Adafy decided to have a pinball machine in Techdays Finland event, because pinball machines have flashing lights and they make loud noise, so they are perfect human magnets into events. To maintain the high score table during the event, I decided to build an Azure DevOps demo which would hold all the players and their scores. With Azure DevOps queries I could create high score lists and get …
Secure DevOps Kit (AzSK) is free set of tools, which can be used to check security configurations for Azure resources. Cool thing about this toolset is, that it can be easily integrated into the Azure DevOps.
AzSK can be installed as free extension from Azure DevOps Marketplace. Extension contains two tasks:
I’m going to scratch a big surface here, but let’s see how Azure DevOps can help us to bring more security into our code base. This is first part of three post series about how to add Sec into Azure DevOps.
We are more and more depended of other peoples code. Packaging systems like Nuget and NPM gives us power to fetch huge amount of code in blink of an …
Azure DevOps teams feature can be used to split work into groups. Teams will have their own boards which can be prioritized separately. Even though work items can be split under different teams, they can be still viewed as whole through a parent board of all teams. Parent board or “main board” can be also used to prioritize every teams work.
Teams can be formed from Project settings / Teams.…
Sometimes you need to keep customer demo from test / dev environment and you don’t want anybody to update new version during your demo. Azure DevOps doesn’t have pause feature directly for release, but one neat way to implemented it, is to enable release gateway which holds release until you approve it. Good thing about using release gates is also that you won’t forget to re-enable release, because Azure DevOps …