Azure DevOps

Managing Projects Using Azure Boards

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Get the most out of Azure Boards

Azure Boards enable an agile team to plan, track, and discuss work across the entire development effort. This one day course will demonstrate how an agile team can configure and use Azure Boards effectively. To maximize learning, students will work in teams, in a common team project, on a common case study.

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Expert Facilitation

The course is led by seasoned practitioners who bring their real-world experience and provide insights into practical applications of agile, lean, and DevOps.

Immersive Learning

This course employs a blend of lectures, case studies, group discussions, and interactive exercises to establish a dynamic learning environment.

Course Overview

Azure DevOps Services provide a set of cloud-hosted tools that software teams can use as an end-to-end solution to plan, develop, test, and deliver value in the form of working software. Azure Boards enable an agile team to plan, track, and discuss work across the entire development effort. This one day course will demonstrate how an agile team can configure and use Azure Boards effectively. To maximize learning, students will work in teams, in a common team project, on a common case study.

 

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Learning Experience Options

Our primary method of increasing Azure Boards knowledge is a deliberate developmental experience divided into learning blocks, each with four hours of live virtual classroom training with a qualified trainer-practitioner complemented with presentations and lectures in the form of videos, reading material, and writing activities provided for self-study. Live sessions are delivered online using Microsoft Teams and Mural, with Mighty Networks provides the self-study portal.

Every participant on every option receives:

  • A 30m learning review
  • A 60m one-on-one coaching session

At a minimum, we deliver all of our training in four hour sessions or block of live practitioner-instructor lead experiances, complimented by offline self-paced content. Depending on the training course We can deliver as:

  • Traditional Learning Experience - four intensive consecutive days or four non-consecutive days over two weeks
  • Flipped Learning Experiance - a flipped learning experiance with live classroom sessions as well as offline self-paced learning.
  • Immersive Learning Experiance - an immersive learning experiance with weekly assignements that are debriefed at the next session.
  • Guided Learning Experiance - an guided journey where a trainer-pratitionar cureates and provides feedback on self-paced learnings.
  • Extended Learning Experiance - Traditional, FLipped, or Immersive compimented by additonal integrated workshops, coaching, and consulting as needed.
Please contact us for details.

  1. INTRODUCTION TO AZURE BOARDS
    • Azure DevOps Services overview
    • Azure Boards overview
    • The team project
    • Creating and configuring a team project
    • Securing a team project
    • Teams, profiles, and notifications
    • Extending Azure Boards
    • Creating and using a Wiki
    • Hands-on
  2. THE PRODUCT BACKLOG
    • Process overview
    • Working with the backlog
    • Product Backlog Item vs. Bug work item type
    • Features and Epics backlogs
    • Decomposing large items
    • Kanban board
    • Tagging, querying, and charting work items
    • Hands-on
  3. PLANNING AND MANAGING A SPRINT
    1. Setting up a new sprint
    2. Forecasting work in the backlog
    3. The sprint backlog
    4. Creating a sprint plan
    5. The Task work item type
    6. The Test Case work item type
    7. Working with the Task Board
    8. Collaborating as a team
    9. Daily activities
    10. Implementing a definition of “Done”
    11. Completing a sprint
    12. Splitting an unfinished item
    13. Hands-on

This course is appropriate for all members of a software development team, especially those who are actively involved with creating and refining a product backlog as well as planning and executing work within a sprint. This course will also provide value for individuals outside the development team (managers, Scrum Masters, coaches, and other stakeholders) who want hands-on exposure to the capabilities of Azure Boards. Having some project management and software development experience, either as a team member or as a manager, is recommended. Experience with Agile software development, Scrum, and Visual Studio are also helpful, but not required. Attendees should read and be familiar with the Scrum Guide prior to class.

Attendees should read and be familiar with the Scrum Guide prior to class.

Trainers for Managing Projects Using Azure Boards

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Public training:

Traditional
£425
Immersive
£510

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Corporate rates staring at:

Traditional
£6,585
Immersive
£7,765

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Alumni Discount of 30%

Have you been through a class with us before? As an Alumni you get a 30% discount on all of our classes.

The Alimni discount for this class would bring it down to £360

Combine with our generous 20% Credit per Referral program.

Under / un-employed Program

Under / un-employed Program

Are you underemployed? Our Retraining Program provides favourable payment plans for those not currently working.
Pay a 30% deposit of £155 now, and the rest when you are working.

Unlimited Reruns for 70% discount

Unlimited Reruns for 70% discount

Reruns allow you to participate in a class that you have already taken for any reason at a low cost.

Have you participated in this class with us or an equivalent from another vendor? We are intent on enabling your continuous learning so we offer you a Rerun discount of 70% to take it again with our trainers.

The Rerun discount for this class would bring it down to £155. Contact us with proof of participation in a previous class to claim your discount.

For Scrum.org classes from another trainer please provide your Scrum.org Profile URL showing that associated class. For Scrum Alliance, you will need to provide a receipt. Not sure? Contact us for a chat.

20% Credit per Referral

20% Credit per Referral

Our Advocates Program allows you to gain 20% for each referral* as a credit towards future classes! This is a cash equivelent so can be added to any other discount.

*up to £105, depending on purchase region, per referal

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Course Designer

This course was designed by Richard Hundhausen, Microsoft’s first Visual Studio ALM/DevOps MVP, Professional Scrum Trainer, and an experienced software developer.

Azure DevOps Services provide a set of cloud-hosted tools that software teams can use as an end-to-end solution to plan, develop, test, and deliver value in the form of working software. Azure Boards enable an agile team to plan, track, and discuss work across the entire development effort. This one day course will demonstrate how an agile team can configure and use Azure Boards effectively. To maximize learning, students will work in teams, in a common team project, on a common case study.

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