Documents how to track blockers in VSTS with the configuration of Blocker color coding configured on Board team views.
Category: Agile
Some info on the VSTS Work Item Visualization extension, providing some quick tips and links to learn more. This VSTS extension allows you to visualize relationships between work items from within the work item form.
Tips on how to conduct a Sprint Review for internal use by Scrum teams.
Requirements of a Sprint Plan & tips to make it easier and more effective to do Sprint Planning.
Documents the VSTS Product Backlog Hierarchy used for sophisticated products and portfolios of products, and how you can use the levels of the hierarchy and the work item types.
Lists requirements for Scrum teams before starting a Sprint, and before a new Scrum team starts their first Sprint.
Documents some techniques you can use to estimating in Story Points using Affinity Estimating.
Quick tips on writing good Epics, Features, Stories and any other work item types and using the INVEST technique to break down work in to smaller pieces.
Some quick tips on learning and using Estimation Poker to estimating. Also known as Planning Poker.
How to plan, schedule and execute a Retrospective. This how to is based on good practices learned over years of experience conducting hundreds of Retrospectives with Scrum teams, functional teams, engineers, managers, directors and executives.
Contains the Retrospective template in wiki page and spreadsheet formats described in Retrospective How To. You can use this to share the results of a Retrospective in a wiki or other shared space.
Training courseware that I developed and conducted training in 2016 for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) - renamed to Azure DevOps.
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