Advantages of creating own Azure DevOps organization

In this post I want to cover some advantages of creating your own Azure DevOps organization. Since I recommend it often enough. Just over a year ago create your own Azure DevOps organization. Since this weeks T-SQL Tuesday contribution jogged my memory about it, I thought I would highlight some advantages. Additional tips about creating … Read more

One Power BI report for both Azure Boards and GitHub

In this post I want to cover creating one Power BI report for both Azure Boards and GitHub. Because I covered it in a session recently. In a previous post I covered using Azure DevOps Analytics Views and Power BI to create Sprint review dashboards. During that post I showed how you can use Analytics … Read more

Viewing Agile and Scrum work items at the same time in Azure DevOps

In this post I want to cover options for viewing Agile and Scrum work items at the same time in Azure DevOps. Because it’s a common request. For instance, somebody may be responsible for teams that use a combination of Agile and Scrum Processes in Azure DevOps. If they link them all to a theme … Read more

Azure DevOps Retrospective extension is staying

Azure DevOps Retrospective extension is staying and I’m very happy about that. Because I’m so pleased I’ve decided to write a post about it. Retrospective extension Just so you are all aware, Retrospectives is an Azure DevOps extension available in the marketplace. It’s for organizing sprint retrospective meetings and it’s really useful. Sprint retrospectives are … Read more

Beautiful Azure Boards query

In this post I want to cover a beautiful Azure Boards query that I created. Because a while ago I mentioned that I had logged a feedback item to Microsoft about Azure DevOps. In particular, with them adding a ‘Not’ option when filtering tags. You can read the feedback item with Microsoft in detail here. … Read more