Azure Boards documentation

About Azure Boards

video

• What is Azure Boards?

Concept

• Choose a process
• Configure and customize Boards
• Agile process workflow
• About work items
• About teams and Agile tools

Get started

Quickstart

• Sign up for free
• Plan and track work
• Create your backlog

Tutorial

• Define features and epics
• Bulk add or modify work items
• Move, change, delete, or restore work items

Find and list work items

Tutorial

• Create managed queries
• Perform ad hoc searches

Concept

• Link work items

Reference

• Query quick reference

Plan and monitor sprints (Scrum)

Tutorial

• Assign work to sprints
• Set capacity
• Monitor sprint burndown

Integrate with GitHub

Quickstart

• Connect Azure Boards to GitHub
• Link GitHub commits, pull requests, and issues to work items
• Configure status badges

Agile at Scale

Tutorial

• Portfolio management
• Configure a hierarchy of teams
• Visibility across teams

Troubleshoot

How-To Guide

• Fix re-ordering and nesting issues
• Set up your Backlogs and Boards
• FAQs

Configure

Tutorial

• Set area paths
• Set iteration (sprint) paths

How-To Guide

• Configure a Kanban board
• Configure a Taskboard
• Manage and configure team tools

Customize work tracking

Quickstart

• Add a custom field
• Add or modify work item types

Tutorial

• Customize the workflow

Concept

• Inheritance process model
• On-premises XML process model

Manage permissions

How-To Guide

• Set permissions and access for work tracking
• Set project-level permissions

Reference

• Default work tracking permissions

Reference

Reference

• Work item field index
• Work items quick reference
• Azure DevOps CLI
• REST API