Setting up the Team and creating the initial work item
In this series of articles, we are going to set up a new Azure DevOps team, create work items that will be integrated to Github and automatically promote the development changes into the production environment using Azure Pipelines.
First of all, we have to create our DevOps team.
Within our Project, in our Azure DevOps organization (dev.azure.com), we should head to the Project Setting, in the General tab, choose Teams and create a new team, populating it with the team members.
Now that we have the team setup, we can move on and start creating the work items.
First, we will create the Epic that will be the parent of all the other work items.
To do that, we go to the Boards section of Azure Devops, more specifically to the Backlog area.
Making sure that we are in the Epics scope we can go on and click on the “+ New Work Item” button.
With the Epic created, it is time to give some more meaningful information to what this is all about.
I won’t go into the details of each field, but it is always important to assign an owner that will be held responsible for this Epic and also give some basic description of what this epic is aiming to accomplish.
Now we will create respectively the Feature and User Stories that will be mapped to this epic.
With the work items created we can move them to the current iteration, here named Sprint 1.
Our sprint is active now, and we can start to work in our user stories. Next step, we will resolve the first feature created, where we will integrate Github + Azure Boards.
See you!
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