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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.

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What changes for your team

  • Turn messy agile work into trackable delivery
  • Stop drowning in vague requests
  • Run sprints with confidence, not guesswork

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

Prerequisites

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

Certification: Not specified

Frequently Asked Questions

Managing Projects with Azure Boards is aimed at anyone on a software development team involved in backlog creation, refinement, or sprint planning and execution. It’s also suitable for managers, Scrum Masters, coaches, and stakeholders who want practical exposure to Azure Boards. If you have no role in agile or software projects, or are seeking deep technical training beyond project management in Azure Boards, this course may not be for you.

You should have some experience with software project work, either managing or taking part in a team. Being familiar with agile and Scrum is helpful, and reading the Scrum Guide before attending is expected; advanced expertise or Visual Studio experience is not required.

You’ll tackle core challenges like building and refining a product backlog, planning sprints, setting up work item types, and tracking progress using Azure Boards, all through scenarios based on a real-world case study. Collaboration obstacles and team workflow issues are addressed practically as you use the tool together.

Managing Projects with Azure Boards does not include a formal certification or assessment. The focus is on practical skill-building rather than testing or accreditation.

PKAB and MARS are foundational courses typically completed beforehand; Managing Projects with Azure Boards builds on that groundwork, taking you deeper into practical Azure Boards usage. If you have that foundation, you’re ready for this course.

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