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
- Understand and utilize Azure Boards for agile project management.
- Effectively manage and refine the Product Backlog.
- 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