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Azure DevOps Explained

You're reading from   Azure DevOps Explained Accelerate your cloud-native software development with Azure DevOps for Cloud Excellence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2026
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238937
Length 393 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Prasad Gandham Prasad Gandham
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Stefano Demiliani Stefano Demiliani
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Amit  Malik Amit Malik
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Creating and managing project activities

Azure DevOps offers different project features that can be used by teams to manage their software development project, such as Work Items, backlogs, sprints, boards, and queries. These will be covered in the following sections.

Work Items

Teams use artifact Work Items to track all the work for a team. Here, you will describe what is needed for the software development project. You can track the features and the requirements, the code defects or bugs, and all other items. The Work Items that are available to you are based on the process that was chosen when the project was created.

Work Items have three different states: new, active, and closed. During the development process, the team can update the items accordingly so that everyone has a complete picture of the work related to the project.

Now, let’s create a new Work Item.

Creating a new Work Item

From now on, we are going to use the Tailwind Traders sample project that we had generated...

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