Azure DevOps Boards offers various processes to choose from for managing work items. Selecting the right process is essential for the productivity of our team and success of a project. To better support how your business and team works, you can actually customize the process. You can add more item types, you can add custom …
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In this video, I’ll show how I’m starting to use some of the AI tools into my workflow for preparing “Requirement Elicitation or Requirement Validation” workshops. One common challenge I face with clients when discussing requirements is my general lack of understanding about their industry, including the typical stages or processes their end users follow. …
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Host Neil Benson is joined by Dani Kahil for an insightful discussion on managing backlogs and enhancing user stories in Azure DevOps and Jira. Neil shares his experiences with Jira, highlighting some configuration challenges, while Dani expresses a strong preference for Azure DevOps. Neil and Dani dive into the hierarchy of backlog items, including epics, …
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In this video, we’re diving into Product Backlog management, and how a tool like Azure DevOps Boards can bring clarity to your project when creating and managing a Product Backlog.
Do you have the need to store links to SharePoint documents from Azure DevOps for an easier collaboration? Unfortunately, to make this work you have to manually create your SharePoint folder and then reference it in your DevOps items. What about having an automated integration that will: I this article, I am showing you how …
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So what is Power BI and what are the main concepts of this great tool? In this video, we cover in the main concepts behind Power BI and I am joined by Greg Nash who is a fellow MVP and a specialist in Power BI. Greg has been in the industry for more then 20 …
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Similar to how you can open records in a dialog from a sub-grid using editable grids, you can now do the same using the new “Power Apps grid control” without having to deal with the grid being editable. Reference to the following post on CLICKING ON A SUBGRID TO OPEN A MODAL FORM IN DYNAMICS …
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In this post I am sharing a useful technique that I learned working with some clever Business Analysts, which involves pre-populating User Stories with default values. With work item templates, you can quickly create work items that have pre-populated values for your team’s commonly used fields. For example, create a template that defines the area …
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So what is Power Apps?You might have heard about Power Platform, or Power BI and are wondering where does Power Apps fits into this? In this video, I am joined by Scott Durow and we cover in details the main concepts of both type of Power Apps – Model Driven Apps & Canvas Apps. Scott …
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