I ran into this problem and solved it, so this Q&A is here just in case somebody else spent time on sifting through Microsoft's docs trying to find this answer.
How do you create a new board in Azure DevOps? When I go to the boards > board and look at my existing boards, there's no + button to create like there is with repositories in the board list dropdown. Additionally, there's not an add button in the top right. And the board settings are just board preferences, not overall boards management.
As it turns out, 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. Merely creating a board without the team isn't possible in their paradigm as of this writing.
Sources:
Manage and configure team tools
Configure and customize Azure boards
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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'm trying to configure and customize the Azure DevOps tool as per the requirement for my application development team. In the boards setting, I have selected the option "Bugs are managed with Tasks" to get a good view of my sprint items. However, my team reports post production issues as Bugs in the tool and enabling the above mentioned setting doesn't allow me to view these Bugs in the Kanban Boad. Reason is they are not linked with any User Story.
I have been exploring the options in Backlog levels options available in the Processes settings and found that the Backlog level "Stories" is tagged only for User Story.
My query here is can i try linking Bug and Task to the already existing "Stories" backlog level. Azure DevOps does gives option to create a custom backlog level and custom Work item type. I would like to customize the existing functionality to best fit my team. Please let me know if there is a work around.
Query regarding Backlog Levels in Azure Devops
This behavior is by designed and there is no way to fix it at present for the exists Work item type Bug.
Because there is only one requirement backlog and it cannot be removed, but can be renamed and edited:
There is an user voice about this request on the Developer Community.
As workaround, we could create a custom the Work item type and add it to backlog level, for example, I create a custom Work item type BugWithoutTask, then add it portfolio backlog:
Then go to backlog settings and enable new backlog:
Now, we could these BugwithoutTask in the Kanban Boad:
You could check this document for some more deails.
Hope this helps.
I am new to azure devops and devops field. I am exploring myself in azure devops, where learning boards. I I was confused while updating the status of my work item. I was assigned with a task (example: create a login page. Now i went to azure boards and its allowing me to edit the title and priority fields. Those are already set by my higher levels. I only need to add details like time efforts, status). What security is our team missing to achieve this?
Also i need to move the work items from one stage to next stage(Todo to completed) via VS2017. How to achieve that. Now i am currently going to devops portal and drag and drop the workitems to next columns.
If you have permission to edit a work item, you can edit any field on the work item. This is by design. Whether it's a limitation or not is up to you to decide.
You can update the work item state from Visual Studio by linking it to your commit in the team explorer. Refer to the documentation.
I work on Azure DevOps in few organization. I was looking for a way to move/copy kanban board to another project or organization. I found one way:
Azure Boards Kanban Tools but it doesn't work properly.
How i can do it?
DevOps: Copy kanban board to another organization
There is no such out of box way to copy kanban board to another organization.
With built-in solution, we could only move the work items into a different project in the same organization.
Check this thread for some details.
After those work items move to the another project, they will appear in kanban board.
If you want to copy kanban board to another organization, you could use the Excel to achieve it:
Ticket here: How do I move Work Items from one organization to another
Besides, the extension Azure Boards Kanban Tools is used to allows teams to either grab settings from another team and apply them to their boards or to allow a team to copy their settings to another team. For the extension, you can refer to Migration Tools for Azure DevOps, which allow you to migrate Teams, Work Items, and Plans & Suits from one Project to another in Azure DevOps/TFS both within the same Organisation, and between Organisations.
Hope this helps.
I use Azure DevOps boards for my projects, I am working on scrum methodology.
I want to add my customize columns at the sprints, I make a lot of research and I found it is possible at boards section not on the sprint.
my question here is it possible or not and if yes how can I do that?
In the sprint task board you can't add new custom columns.
But, you can use inherited process template, then add a new state to the Task work item and you will see it in the sprint board: