New Course: Implementing Scrum with Azure DevOps

Scrum Overview

• Introduction
• Scrum Framework Overview
• Definition of Done
• PBIs Should Be Completed to Done in One Sprint
• Choosing Your Sprint Duration
• How to Be Successful at Scrum with Azure DevOps
• Summary

Planning & Managing a Product Backlog

• Introduction
• What Is the Backlog? Why Do You Care?
• Demo: Create a Product Backlog in Azure DevOps
• What Makes a Good Product Backlog?
• Estimation and Velocity
• Demo: Forecasting the Future Using Velocity
• Demo: Portfolio Backlogs
• Grouping & Organizing Work with Portfolio Backlogs, Areas, and Tags
• Demo: Grouping & Organizing Work Using Areas and Tags
• Demo: Don’t Put Bugs on Your Backlog
• Demo: Delivery Plans & PBI Dependencies
• Summary

Sprint Planning

• Introduction
• What Is the Sprint Planning Meeting?
• The Sprint Goal
• The What and How of Sprint Planning
• The Dangers of Assigned Tasks
• Demo: Sprint Setup
• Demo: Choosing PBIs for Your Sprint
• Demo: Tasks, Remaining Work, & Capacity
• Demo: Using the Backlog Board to Create Test Cases
• Summary

The Daily Scrum & Tracking Sprint Progress

• Introduction
• What Is the Daily Scrum?
• Boredom, Risk, & Accountability
• How Does Azure DevOps Help with the Daily Scrum?
• Version Control, Traceability, Branching, & Merging
• Demo: Feature Branches from the Backlog Board
• Demo: Scrum Board at the Daily Scrum / "Walking the Board"
• Demo: Using the Burndown Chart at the Daily Scrum
• Impediments
• Demo: Tracking Blocked Tasks Using the Blocked Field
• Demo: Tracking Blocked PBIs & Tasks Using Tags
• Summary

The Sprint Review & the Sprint Retrospective

• Overview
• What Is the Sprint Review?
• What Is the Sprint Retrospective?
• Azure DevOps at the Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective
• Demo: Using the Azure DevOps Wiki via the Web Interface
• Demo: Using the Azure DevOps Wiki via Git
• Velocity & the Dangers of Undone Work in the Sprint
• Strategies for Handling Undone Work in Azure DevOps
• Demo: Handling Undone Work in Azure DevOps
• Summary

Automating Your Way to Done and Delivery

• Introduction
• Automation & the Definition of Done
• Tip: Get Your Database under Version Control
• Tip: Simplify Your Branching & Merging Structure
• Pull Requests
• Definition of Done, Pull Requests, and Policies in Azure DevOps
• Demo: Create an Azure DevOps Build Pipeline
• Demo: Add Branch Policies for Pull Requests
• Demo: Add a Build Validation Policy for Pull Requests
• Demo, Part 2 of 2: Create a PR Validation Build & Refactor to Use YAML Templates
• Demo: Analyze & Enforce Code Coverage Metrics in Pull Requests
• Demo: Enforce Coding Style Checks in Pull Requests
• Demo: Multi-Stage, Multi-Environment Deployments to Azure with Manual Validations
• Summary

Scrum & QA Testing

• Overview
• Rethinking QA
• QA & the Sprint Planning Meeting
• QA Cases Help You Go Faster?
• QA Testing Features in Azure DevOps
• The Azure DevOps Browser Extension for Testing
• Demo: Create Test Cases
• Demo: Run Test Cases & Create Bugs
• Demo: Exploratory Testing
• Demo: Connect Test Cases to Automated Tests Using Associated Automations
• Summary

Backlog Refinement

• Introduction
• What Is Backlog Refinement?
• Benefits of Backlog Refinement & Levels of Refinement
• Estimation Is a Waste of Time / How to Estimate
• Methods of Estimation
• Team-based Estimation with Story Points and Planning Poker
• Team-based Estimation for Statistical Forecasting
• How to Do a Backlog Refinement Meeting
• Demo: Product Backlog Refinement
• Backlog Refinement in Azure DevOps
• Demo: Customize Azure DevOps for Better Refinement
• Demo: Backlog Refinement Chart
• Demo: Refine & Split a Product Backlog Item in Azure DevOps
• Summary

Multi-team Scrum

• Introduction
• How Many Team Projects Do You Need?
• Teams in Azure DevOps
• Multitasking and Resources
• The Official Scrum Guide Guidance on Teams
• How to Organize Your Teams
• Demo: Teams in Azure DevOps
• Demo: Assign PBIs to Teams
• Summary

Metrics & Dashboards

• Introduction
• Metrics Skepticism
• Good Metrics vs. Bad Metrics
• Why Do You Want This New Metric?: Good, Strange, & Bad Metrics
• Metrics Roundup
• Predicting the Future with Velocity
• Predicting the Future with Throughput
• Demo: Dashboards in Azure DevOps
• Summary & Thanks