I'm trying to setup azure devops test project and introduce it to our team. So I created test user stories and related tasks. I also created test sprints (10 work days each) starting with 2021-07-19. So far so good. Taskboard contains tasks and user stories, for test purposed I "finished" some work yesterday. Backlog tab seems to be working well, remaining work and work details works as expected too. Capacity tab is filled.
But once I enter Analytics tab with burndown trend it seems to be empty. No task nor user stories. Did I miss something? I tried all tutorials and all seems to be set correctly. See pictures below.
Do you have any advice or hints?
Thanks!
EDIT: Legacy burndown graph in dashboard works fine.
After a while I found solution. My test project contains only user stories and related tasks and thus the structure is obviously User story -> Tasks. However in the project setting -> Boards - Team configuration I left checked also Features checkbox. Based on that setting expected structure is Feature -> User stories -> Tasks which I haven't. So once I unchecked Features checkbox all started to work as expected. I might be useful for others as well.
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I just created a list of work items, under a project in Azure DevOps: 1 epic and 3 features (these 3 are child linked to the epic).
But when I go to the backlogs to see these items, they are not shown. I get the following message:
I tried a couple of solutions that I found on the web, but they do not work.
Please help me to figure out why these are not being shown in the backlog... (of course I'm new at Azure DevOps).
Thanks!
From the screenshot, I can see that only epic and feature:
You need to select epic or feature type in this place:
Create Tasks under the User Story.
Epic ---> Features---> User Story --->Tasks. So then in the backlog top right corner when you select Epic, Features, User Story, Tasks will appear. When you select the Feature, User Story, Tasks will appear. When you select the User Story, Tasks will appear.
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I found the answer by going through the different buttons on the screen:
Go to Configure Team Settings (when selected a box will be displayed)
Be sure that in the Backlog section all items are selected (in my case they weren´t)
Be sure that all of the work items in different levels are shown by clicking on the + symbol. (the - symbol will hide them).
And that is it!
Since the process of one A/B test usually takes multiple sprints I would like to add another board in which I can add the A/B tests (as F.E. features). User stories for one sprint can then be added to a specific sprint for my team (which consists of a few specialists and a developer). This way I am able to overview the status (research phase, test , code writing, running, analysis, etc.) of all tests in one overview. I have not been able to find out how this is possiblie within Azure Devops, or if there is a work around. Can anyone help me?
My team also works in projects other than A/B tests, which means we cannot use the boards section.
Unless there is a hidden way to add another board to a team?
You could Copy or clone a work item to add the user stories or tests to a new boards. Open the user story you want to clone, then click Create copy of work item and choose whether to include exist links, attachments and child work items. After creating, change the Area and Iteration to your target boards.
Update
In Azure DevOps you can only create boards by creating a team. The team board is created as a side-effect of creating the team. Please refer to Manage and configure team tools and Configure and customize Azure Boardsfor details.
After creating and configuring a new team, you could see the boards in the dropdown list.
I set up my first AzureDevops organisation by starting with the Agile process but later changed it to CMMI for the organisation to better align with the other projects my team works on. I think this is where the cause of the problem is but can't figure out how to address it.
PROBLEM:
I cannot see in the backlogs any of the Epics I created. The Epic selector in the dropdown menu of the backlog navigation is present and selected. Some of the Features can be seen in the Features backlog, however, not all.
WHAT I TRIED TO DO:
I created a query from the Epics backlog and tried changing its filters and got to see all the epics if I change the filter from having several OR statements on the Area Path filter to one with Area Path Under "top level area path".
I am 100% sure this is because I changed the process. Would appreciate if someone could please let me know some troubleshooting steps to address the issue?
Thank you
I use Query Result tiles in my dashboard to help teammates on multiple projects to quickly view the work that is assigned to them. We used to be able to click on a given task to open the detailed description of said task but now it no longer works. The tile only shows the associated user story and is no longer linking to the detailed view screen.
I have checked the queries used (simple work items and direct link query that shows all tasks assigned to a given user and its associated User Story) and reviewed the latest updates to Azure Devops but I can't find any changes that could affect the expected results.
Sorry about this issue you meet. This is caused by our server. There are some mistake occurred on our side, so that the work item which displayed on dashboards could not be clickable successfully now.
You can follow this ticket which report on Developer Community.
The fixed release has been deployed now, but haven't cover all regions. It may take some time to finish that. Please wait for this fix deploy finished. And if you still have this issue recently, you can vote and comment on Develop Community.
Our product engineers are still focusing on this issue and will help you investigate more.
I still didn't get it.
Where do complete backlog stays if we have to plan for new sprint and pick items from backlog. Like I can see stories/features but what about all bugs/issues, where they can be seen?
I don't want to search for all items in queries/work items. How can I bring all work items in backlog?
Sounds like you're using the Agile template, which doesn't put everything on the product backlog by default. You can edit the backlog settings to put the bug workitem on the backlog. You can find this setting in the Backlog customization screen, as long as Bug is configured to show up as a requirement, it should show up on the product backlog:
Since issues follow a completely different workflow, they cannot be placed on the product backlog. I would guess that they're being used as something else than what they were meant for. But you'd have to help me with additional information. The Issue work item type is the scrum equivalent of an Impediment. Anything that is blocking the team from progressing effectively. These aren't part of the work that goes into the product and are not managed on the same list.
If you're using the Issue work item as a different kind of Bug/Defect then I recommend either creating a custom field on bug to signal the bug type or create a new work item type that is a copy of bug to start with, that way it starts out with all the fields required for it to show up on the backlog.