About the course:
Our instructor-led Agile development with Azure DevOps training course will give you hands-on experience with Microsoft’s increasingly popular agile project delivery platform.
Guided by an experienced practitioner, you’ll learn how to navigate projects, create issues, set up Product Backlogs, Scrum and Kanban boards, and report on crucial aspects of your project such as Burndown and Velocity.
Teams who are already using Azure DevOps typically refer to it as ADO - it's worth noting that it's not to be confused with the older ActiveX Data Objects (aka ADO.NET)
If you are looking to employ ADO to enhance project delivery within your organisation, get in touch to find out how we can tailor a custom workshop that really focuses on getting the most out of ADO.
You can attend this course remotely, as part of a wider training programme or standalone workshop. As soon as it's safe we'll go back to offering the course for custom on-site / in-house delivery as well as resuming our public scheduled courses in London.
By the end of this course, you will have learnt about:
- Structuring you Product Backlog
- Set up teams to collaborate on work
- Create and manage long-term indicative plans
- Support the Sprint planning process and other team work
- Monitor productivity and build meaningful dashboards
Useful resources
Who should attend
Agile Project managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Agile teams, Developers, Test engineers.
Prerequisites
An understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban) and techniques (Feature and User Story breakdown) would be helpful to get the best from the course.
Live, instructor-led online and on-site training
We appreciate that you need flexibility to fit in with new working situations - whether you're an individual, part of a distributed team, or simply have projects and deadlines to meet.
Our remote training can take place online in a virtual classroom, with content split into modules to accommodate your scheduling challenges and meet your learning goals. Get in touch today to find out how we can help design a cost-effective, flexible training solution.
As soon as it's safe, we'll return to also offering the on-site custom training courses and programmes upon which we've built our reputation.
Review: How tools support Agile teams
Introduction to Azure DevOps (ADO)
- Brief history of the platform (TFS, VSTS)
- Overview of other key functions - how developers, ops and testers use ADO
- Key concepts - Teams, Areas, Iterations, Work Items
Getting around ADO
- Logging in / Access
- Navigating the main menus
Navigation
Managing the Backlog
- Creating
- Structuring
- Navigating.
Visibility
Long-term indicative planning
Sprint planning
- using iterations
- the sprint board
- the burndown chart
Communicating results
- Building Queries
- Creating ADO Dashboards
- Producing Governing metrics
Getting started with your team
- Assigning roles
- Planning your first Sprint with ADO