Product Leaders

Managing Projects Using Azure Boards Training

Learn to plan, track, and manage agile software projects using Azure Boards, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and team collaboration in a hands-on setting.

Accentient Advanced Traditional

Managing Projects Using Azure Boards Training

Course Code: A-MPAB

Overview

Master Azure Boards in this one-day course, empowering your agile team to plan, track, and deliver software effectively through hands-on collaboration. This course demonstrates how an agile team can configure and use Azure Boards in a practical, team-based environment.

Target Audience

  • Product managers
  • Software development team members (especially those involved in backlog creation, refinement, and sprint planning/execution)
  • Managers, Scrum Masters, coaches, and other stakeholders seeking hands-on exposure to Azure Boards

Learning Outcomes

  1. Understand and utilize Azure Boards for agile project management.
  2. Effectively manage and refine the Product Backlog.
  3. Plan and manage sprints using Azure Boards.

Course Topics

  • Introduction to Azure Boards
    • Azure DevOps Services overview
    • Creating, configuring, and securing a team project
    • Teams, profiles, notifications, and extending Azure Boards
    • Using Wikis
  • The Product Backlog
    • Backlog management and work item types
    • Features, Epics, and decomposition
    • Kanban board usage
    • Tagging, querying, and charting work items
  • Planning and Managing a Sprint
    • Sprint setup and forecasting
    • Sprint backlog and planning
    • Task and Test Case work item types
    • Task Board usage and team collaboration
    • Daily activities, definition of “Done,” sprint completion, and handling unfinished items

Delivery Format

  • Traditional (instructor-led, hands-on, team-based exercises)

Proficiency Level

  • Intermediate

Course Length

  • 1 day

Trainer/Designer

  • Richard Hundhausen (Microsoft’s first Visual Studio ALM/DevOps MVP, Professional Scrum Trainer)

Vendor

  • Accentient

Prerequisites

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

Certification: Not specified