Azure DevOps for Agile Project Managers, Owners & Analysts

Updated Dec 2025 - Added questions to help test knowledge and support learning Updated Jan 2025 - Added links to useful resources, refreshed early lectures to improve smoothness of animations and key word callouts to make them clearerUpdated Feb 2025 - Added a new Downloadable PDF resource guideUpdated May 2025 - Added a New Lecture. Learn how to run effective Retrospectives in Azure DevopsUpdated June 2025 - Expanded upon the Capacity lecture to give live examples and go into more detail This course has been created to help you Become a Master at Building and Managing a product backlog in Azure Devops. Whether you're a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Scrum Master, Developer, Tester or simply someone who is working Azure Devops to build and deliver on a Product Backlog and need to know how to use the tool effectively.

Azure Devops is a large and multi purposed tool and for non technical users it can be especially confusing to use as functions that support code delivery sit alongside functions that help you manage business requirements. This course will focus on all the features and functionality that support a clear and actionable requirements backlog for Agile and SCRUM delivery. It's a great tool at encouraging Business requirements to meet technical delivery.

But the trick is How do I use Azure Devops effectively in my day to day job. This course looks to solve this problem by providing you with live demonstrations of all the necessary functionality to set up and manage a backlog for any project or change. With Step by Step walkthroughs of each feature, We will build a Product Backlog together from EPIC to Feature to user story.

We'll log Bugs, link tickets, populate future sprints, manage the board in refinements and daily standup, run queries and even build dashboards to see how the team is progressing together. The course digs into all aspects of creating and managing a backlog in Azure Devops, navigating its key features and functionality, including:Navigating Devops- Boards- Backlogs- Sprints- QueriesProduct Backlog Items (PBI's)- EPIC- Feature- User Story- Task- BugManaging the Backlog- Adding to the backlog- Removing from the backlog- Prioritising the Backlog- Setting up views- StatesSprints & Queries - Reviewing your current sprint- Looking at historical sprints- Adding tasks- Managing CapacityBoards, Dashboards and the WIKI- Using Azure Devops as part of Refinement- Using Azure Devops for daily standups- Creating Dashboards - The WIKIManaging User stories - Discussions within Azure Devops- Change History- Description, Acceptance Criteria, Supporting Info- Planning- Related and Linking PBI'sAdditional Devops Functions - Estimating using Planning Poker - Test Plans- Integrations with MIRO- PBI TemplatesThe demonstrations within this course will take you through simple understandable project, nt simply showing you the functions but using them for real in the context of the project I have created. This helps with your understanding and you don't just understand how to do something, but you understand why you are doing it as well.