Loving Azure Boards with Delivery Plans 2.0

[@cesarcastillo4917]

This is phenomenal! Thanks for showing it Martina and Damian. I will share it with my Latam CocaCola team. This feature of dependencies on the boards in azure devops is exactly what we needed to be able to integrate the different teams that we have working within azure devops.

[@marlaprobst1185]

We upgraded to this version last week. I LOVE IT! Thank you so much!!

[@MonikaJoy]

Thank you for sharing! This was exactly what I was looking for. Created Roadmap in a different tool, when I could have simply used the Boards :)

[@GabrielBeaver]

Thanks for the introduction and sharing of this feature!

[@lifesacardgame6454]

Just discovered this. Oh my word this will be useful!

[@youssefb.7406]

Finally I can say goodbye to Jira

[@neha210888]

Is there a way to add existing work items to a delivery plan right in the delivery plan?

[@deepikakathuroju9409]

Hi , thanks for the video. Can you please make a video or provide a link to an existing video where we create a delivery plan from the start.

[@nishithburman366]

Azure DevOps is pretty cool 👍

[@AzureDevOps]

Yes!!!

[@relocatingtodisney9044]

Can you zoom out to see the major initiatives, then zoom into a major initiative to see its components, and further zoom in to get more and more detail? Or does the zoom just take the roadmap boxes and make them bigger and smaller without showing how they roll-up to their parent initiatives?

[@AzureDevOps]

Yes, by using filters: learn.microsoft.com/azure/devops/boards/backlogs/filter-backlogs-boards-plans?view=azure-devops

[@alangoes9911]

It helps me a lot, thanks a bunch!

[@scotthorwood5558]

Very buggy piece of functionality. You can't drag and drop bits and pieces very well. When you reorder, it doesn't hold after a page refresh. Would also benefit from swimlanes

[@tuyenluong5141]

can we view it under quarterly view instead of 12 months

[@AzureDevOps]

Yes! Just change the view to the specified dates

[@McChill6561]

Great - really cool! But what if I or my management like to see Initiatives? Can Initiatives also be shown according their Begin Date and End Date? I mean to show that they start in January and last until end of June. I was not able to do so 😞

[@Kk58226]

Under the road map view of the plan how can change the order of the cards as they appear? I am not talking start and end dates but how do I move some cards up above the others and some below others. In this example how can I move up the Epic 23 where you have epic 1 and move epic 1 into 3rd position?

[@regalt1987]

if these are true delivery plans, why can we not see the average or set velocity in the Delivery sprints at the user story level along with the load?

[@jaycallery9004]

I have start dates and end dates for all work items, yet nothing shows up in my deliver plans! Frustrating, just go back to the old version!

[@WahidBitar]

Does the start and end date on the items of the Delivery plan saved in some field? I mean I want the Target Date or Due Date to be updated according to the Delivary Plan

[@AzureDevOps]

You can change/edit your fields here: learn.microsoft.com/azure/devops/boards/plans/add-edit-delivery-plan?view=azure-devops

[@whatisiswhatable]

So you can drag and drop the end and start of a card on the delivery plan. Awesome. But is this connected to any field or piece of data? If not, this is a huge miss!

[@napoleon2756]

Can I share this delivery plan to our external clients and in some way have feedback from then?

[@AzureDevOps]

it's not, but submit a feature request here: developercommunity2.visualstudio.com/report?entry=suggestion&space=21

[@thomaskstertube]

Is there a way to add existing work items to a delivery plan right in the delivery plan w/o having to go find the work item and add the start and target dates to it?

[@shahrohit8859]

What are the attributes important to set for Epic, Feature Request, User Stories and Task/Bus to have such a wonderful Delivery plan view? Please guide or share another video if we already have on the same to refer.

[@TonyCoyle]

for 'timing' the key values are start date and target date. content is, of course, title, team, area, iteration, etc...

[@owkprasanthkumar7292]

I couldn't find a way to extend the dependencies into the future iterations. While i select stories, it only shows the dependency links until the ongoing iteration and not beyond. Am I missing something?

[@AzureDevOps]

Make sure that your work items are assigned to an iteration path. If they're not assigned, you won't see future iterations.

[@loris6526]

Does Azure boards allow multiple teams to work in one project? Basically you will have multiple teams with sprints.

[@kriswilliams8296]

How do you tell which feature is tied to which epic when looking at the delivery plan?

[@user-cs9ri7vg7s]

Can this feature show me when my team is busy? Or help me answer a customer's question of 'when can your team delivery X?'

[@jaywalsh1329]

I wish we had something above epic, but I am not sure what, probably product or "project" but we need a different term since devops uses projects as a "team", maybe "group" or "bundle or something" Our team will be releasing a few complete new "products" worht of features, some actual prodcuts, and completing several projects that are made up of features and epics, and we'll slot them together in a quarterly release. there is currently not a great way to do that, since epics can't parent epics. and our "products" and "products" are made up of epics within the CMMI process...haven't found a good soluttion to this yes other than flags on the delivery plan.

[@MichaelSClark89]

This is great - is there a way to define dependencies between sprints as well as work items?

[@stevewarman5846]

@mlh3636 Martina, is there any way to have the timeline/delivery plan dates for Features, being fed based on roll-up of the child Stories/Bugs/Tasks as per Jira? This would save me having to keep manually adjusting the Start Date and Target Date or adding Iterations to Features which our Scrum Master is not keen on. The timeline would then extend out as Stories/Bugs/Tasks are added to Iterations. This would be amazing if so. Thank you.

[@monahafez8693]

Hi - thanks for this helpful video. I see that in your version, the sprints don't always appear. How can I remove the row showing sprints from my plan? Also, is there a quarter by quarter view, or just monthly?

[@TonyCoyle]

the calendar on any swimlane is driven entirely by that team's calendar (so if want to see 'months' your team needs to define their iterations as months)

[@andycannon6624]

Thank you.. QQ, How do you set the rollups ? I only get a number of stories not a percentage ? Cheers

[@SoftConInc]

Great feature. Makes it really easy to plan projects. I do have a question though. Is there a way to customize the boards across multiple projects just like the delivery plan?

[@WilliamPowerDental]

You mentioned at 7:52 that you need to define the dependencies to use the dependency feature of Delivery Plans, is this only through the Dependency Tracker extension?

[@AzureDevOps]

You can add dependencies via stories etc. They've updated the dependency tracking since the video was launched, have a look here: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/plans/track-dependencies?view=azure-devops

[@StuffOnYourScreen]

Can you share what the Iterations configuration for the Project and the Teams look like? I'm having trouble configuring my iterations to get work items to show up like this. It looks like there should be a parent AgilePractices iteration, and within that iterations for each month (January, February, March, etc.). But then for the epics it looks like they need their own iterations with arbitrary timelines (mid-Jan to early April for Epic 1). Then those iterations need to be available to a particular team. I'm trying to make it work, but my iteration nesting and configuration aren't right and it's not coming out the same way.

[@AzureDevOps]

In the demo, iteration paths for the project and teams in Agile Practices are configured by months under quarters like this: • AgilePractices\PI-Q1\January • AgilePractices\PI-Q1\February • AgilePractices\PI-Q1\March Start Date and Target Date are being used for the Epics backlog so for those items to display those dates must be filled out. When using the iteration path, make sure all the work items are assigned to the same level otherwise items may not display. In the demo, all work items for the BumbleBee team are assigned to the month level of the iteration path. A work item assigned to the quarter level would not display.

[@elismarflaviodasilva7723]

Hi, great feature. Thanks! I have a question about dependencies. It didn't work to visualize the dependency between Business Goal-epic-User Story, when they are related by successor-predecessor and at the same time as parent-child. If I remove the parent-child relationship, it's OK. However, in my backlog I can't see the hierarchy anymore. Is it possible to work with the links in the delivery plan and at the same time maintain the parent-child relationship to work well in the backlog?

[@FlavioJarabeck]

This is a per project plan, not multi-project! Or portfolio management! Misleading conversation. This board is fractioned by team. That could be shared among projects., But there is no way to have a multi-project view of your portfolio.

[@nancysingh6395]

IN video you have mentioned that, we can freeze the plan. But I am not able to see any option for this. Kindly help.

[@AzureDevOps]

Are you looking to freeze tasks in the plan or the plan itself? If it's the plan, just change the markers

[@lynsiejones300]

Any reason why I can't see the Progress bars? Does the epic need to be in the view?

[@xavierponcelet]

You might need to zoom out or check the "show child rollup data" in the settings

[@bharatwgsha]

Hey any ADO experts here? I have a project which will be cross teams and I've been asked to set up a separate backlog for it but manage it independently across teams during their own stand ups with a Scrum of Scrums between POs. Is there an ADO hack for this with less admin involved?

[@AzureDevOps]

In a word, no. learn.microsoft.com/azure/devops/boards/backlogs/backlogs-overview?view=azure-devops You can have access to multiple teams yourself, but no, there's not a simple way to do this except with forecasting: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/sprints/forecast?view=azure-devops

[@marioazulay8390]

THANK YOUUUUUU!!!!

[@bjvinay]

How did you get those purple and blue flags

[@AzureDevOps]

Hello @bjvinay! Which flags specifically are you referring to?

[@DiogoMudo]

Does the delivery plans integrate with Ms Project and power BI?

[@AzureDevOps]

Azure DevOps integrates with Project on the web at a work item level but not the Delivery Plan level. Work item data can be pulled into PowerBI via Odata queries but not Delivery Plans.

[@manikandank3325]

Am working as system administrator, how can I start devops carrier

[@AzureDevOps]

Check out: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/devops-engineer/

[@JH21423]

I'm having major issues trying to implement this. I have an Azure Devops environment which uses custom work item types, we have a default project iteration setting with standard monthly iterations (Jan, Feb, Mar, etc.) however when I create a delivery plan the default project iteration isn't pulled through and none of the iteration boxes as shown above in the video (Jan, Feb, Mar) are shown. Instead the only way you can add an iteration to the delivery plan is if you go into the team itself and add one of the iterations from the original list of default iterations (why on earth would anyone do this) specifically to that team, the other issue is you can only add five iterations in that teams area, so you can only add five months at a time potentially. I don't understand how in the above video however Martina has more than 5 iterations, where or how were these set up? Also, if I don't assign an item to the iteration then its not shown in the delivery plan, which is fine however that means the items in the delivery plan have to be assigned to an iteration and will always be set to the same amount of time as the iteration, rather than the start and end date spanning across multiple months (iterations). This could be amazing for my team if I can get this to work, but so far this is really unfriendly and doesnt work well with what I have set up in AD.

[@JH21423]

Ok so I've since worked out actually you aren't restricted to five iterations, you are only restricted to adding five iterations to a team "at one time", so you just have to keep adding them in in multiples of 5 - no drama. However, I still don't understand why you can't revert back to the default project iteration? Not sure why you would have to add the individually to each team rather than revert to the default project

[@JH21423]

I believe I have this working now thanks to your comment below from 1 month ago. This has helped and I've managed to get my delivery plan set up. Thanks.

[@agilecoachcarter8805]

@@JH21423 what was the comment "from 1 month ag" that helped you ?

[@TonyCoyle]

teams are not limited to 5 iterations. the dialog is limited to adding 5 iterations *at a time*