Azure DevOps | Customizing your Board

Learn how to customize your board with these 7 cool customizations. These will help your team be able to quickly see how the work is organized without having to open work items.
Topics include tags, styling, swimlanes and columns, and adding banners

[@iamdedlok]

Good stuff guys. Loved it. here's my tiny contribution to your great work. Here's a list of customizations and their Timestamps which Mike and Kelly walked us through on Azure Boards: 1:53 - Show Id, Areas Path, Iteration Path, CreatedBy on the Workitems and Bugs on the board 4:10 - Color code the work items on the board based on priority, state etc. 5:51 - Tags on workitems and Color code them. 7:38 - Customize the look of the board - add swimlanes and add columns, definition of done. 11:05 - Bring consistency to bug reports using templates 13:40 - Information Banner - using azure cli

[@markmoscosa2371]

Cool video. The info, tricks and walkthrough is exceptional.

[@Sina-sd6qp]

Very cool video, thank you! I hope there will be more of these 🙂

[@CiamS]

Some super useful tricks here, thanks!!

[@erickahiga4144]

Great video guys. Thanks!

[@gopichandh9918]

Hi Kelly & Mike your show is awesome.

[@SajjadKhan-BSK]

Thank you so much Didn't know about this customization

[@puseletsomaraba1313]

Thank ,really appreciate the cohesive presentation ,i enjoyed your delivery style and practicality, ill tested the HTML bug template,it works very well.keep up the great team work

[@kouroshparsa5748]

Very similar to Jira but it solves some of the problems I've had with Jira. thanks for the demo

[@akhileshbhoir8729]

Nice video & expressive as well

[@ruanmurta]

You guys are great! :)

[@Sue_Mhango]

Very informative...learnt alot and my board is customized...

[@abdulrashid2023]

Its really informative, Kindly create it as a series of multiple video starting from beginning of azure devops with scrum

[@gobbaka]

thnks. helped me to update the color change

[@simonemckee8840]

Thank you so much!

[@sagarmule7518]

Really informative video. I would like to know about the User story layout customization from option: organisational settings>Board>Process. Because when I open the user story, I would like to see certain fields in that (ex. on the first page only, build and commit links should be in separate field instead of just under a development field. Thank you.

[@manjushagopalakrishnan4649]

Very informative one.. would like to know If it is possible to add new Status options to the userstory itself, (not on the board) Say like adding Groomed value. Right now we have New, Active, Resolved & Closed.

[@johnluciw8481]

Great video. I am trying to set up my board in a similar fashion. Can you advise what type of project is being used in the demo? Is it agile/scrum/basic? Thank you

[@feliperayner]

Muito bom ! Já me inscrevi !

[@juliecole8433]

Hi Kelly and Mike, this was a very informative video. Have you considered creating a video that demonstrates how to add a custom work item type from a backlog to a board?

[@6minutedevops]

Great idea. I've added that to my backlog of video ideas. -Mike

[@6minutedevops]

Let me know if this is what you were looking for - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZTMZWCvm9VrbJIsi=6pkyX3ugjGV99fBY

[@blackchristiangeek]

Thanks for the tips, although I feel like I'm late to the game since I'm just starting to use DevOps. God bless,

[@mersancanonigo1018]

Hi Kelly and Mike, is it possible to have colored tags on the sprint task board cards?

[@GraciaLurzano]

Cool

[@amyst.george2493]

Can you view a board by customized fields like tracks/workstream?

[@psgambat]

Is there a way to ignore “State mapping” on Settings> Board> Columns configuration? I have a team that has customized their columns outside of the typical columns that match our AzDO states; however they are only showing work items that match the mapped state. Working as designed; but not how they want to utilize the board. Any assistance is appreciated!

[@narayanhombal]

How to add values to State field?

[@kolbirae9461]

Hi there! Great video! Is there a way to configure a swim lane to be “awaiting response” and once a card is put in there, it will not could for the total time a card is active?

[@6minutedevops]

Yes. But, please see my previous response as to why you might not want to do that. -Mike

[@electorize]

How is your project set up? I want to track bugs and stories/features and see them on the board at the same time and I cannot. Can you please help?

[@SabaAkhter-tr6ex]

Thank you for your efforts. What's the difference between approved and committed column? And committed and development?

[@6minutedevops]

On our board we split our columns up into process segments. These can be whatever you and your team want. The difference here is this. Approved = Work has been approved by the team to be worked on. However, it isn't committed to be worked on for this sprint. Committed = the team is committed to work on the items in that column in that sprint. A developer should take work from the committed and pull that item into the Development column. The flexibility of the boards allow you do to some very good tracking of progress. Let me know if this helps. -Mike

[@vamsiilluri]

I want to colour the UserStory which don’t have any tasks mentioned by the team . How Can I do that. To make it Simple User Story with no tasks in any state is Coloured so that team updates the tasks to make every thing visible

[@krishnam4137]

Could you tell me how to get the id customized? My board has id that are 10 digits and uncomfortable to deal with it.

[@KFahrenkrog-bk9wz]

hello, about 8 min 20 seconds in Mike talks about splitting a Column and adding "doing" and "done". this is on a "main" Board. can the same function be performed in a Sprint Taskboard? we have a lot of Tasks and would like to split them in order to view more easily. similar question, can Swimlanes be added to a Sprint Taskboard.

[@6minutedevops]

By default, the sprint task board is already split into "To Do", "Doing", and "Done". The ability to add swim lanes to the Sprint board isn't available. -Mike

[@SureFoundation777]

What if the cards option is not enabled, how do you enable it?

[@user-dt6ec3uy8h]

Hi could you please do session on Customizing sprint board

[@henriksndergaard7874]

I would like my tasks to have a specific color when they are in a specific column. Is that possible? I have tryed with Field = "Board Column" and Value = "Name of Column". It dosn't work.

[@6minutedevops]

It is possible. Not sure why yours isn't working. Would it be better to use Tags to specify different colors or some other property. One approach is to use color sparingly to draw attention to items that need attention. The kanban board is a great visual management tool for ease of status update. -Mike

[@nickfifield1]

shame about the sound distortion. what happened?

[@reganolivarez7115]

Why not a Blocked column?

[@6minutedevops]

In my opinion, columns should always be flow of work. If you have a column that is "blocked", that means that a work item could go from the second column to the "blocked" column and then back to the third column. this messes up any metrics you want to track flow of work. Ultimately, you want work to go as fast as possible from left to right. If you have a blocked item, use tags and color code the card.

[@rt185037]

How do I delete the tags I created? kzbin.info/www/bejne/onyxh6Fqhdard6s

[@6minutedevops]

There's a custom extension that does this. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=YodLabs.TagsManager2&targetId=4f5e75d9-a022-483d-894c-50e2d3262802&ExtHubManageList -Mike

[@tosinvincent6026]

Hi Kelly, Great work. Do you have a contact info by any chance?

[@6minutedevops]

No, sorry

[@surfviewgardens2396]

Kelly is overdriving her microphone - recording it too loudly.

[@danielkros2666]

informative video but the quality and loudness of her microphone (especially compared to his) is killing me

[@dus10dnd]

I love the content... but your audio levels are so inconsistent between the two of you. One video Mike is really loud and then Kelly is faint... the next video it is swapped.

[@waldosantiago7689]

I am sorry but this will put anybody to sleep - I stopped watching after 1 minute

[@6minutedevops]

no need to be sorry. any suggestions to make it better?