Work tracking documentation

Plan, track, and discuss work across teams. Define and update issues, bugs, user stories, & other work with customizable Scrum, Kanban, and Agile tools.

About Work tracking

Overview

• What is Work tracking?
• About work items

Concept

• Choose a process
• Agile process workflow

Get started

Quickstart

• Sign up for free
• Plan & track work
• Get started as a Stakeholder
• Manage Work tracking

Plan your project

Overview

• About Backlogs & Agile project management

Quickstart

• Create your backlog
• Define features & epics
• Organize your backlog

Tutorial

• Bulk add or modify work items (Excel)
• Bulk add or modify work items (Web)

Implement Kanban

Quickstart

• Kanban board quickstart

Tutorial

• Kanban board basics
• Add columns
• Customize your Kanban board

Implement Scrum

Overview

• About Sprints & Scrum

Tutorial

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

List & manage work items

Tutorial

• Create managed queries
• Perform ad hoc searches
• Define, triage, & manage bugs
• Remove, delete, or restore work items

Collaborate

Quickstart

• Connect Azure Boards to GitHub
• Link GitHub commits, pull requests, & issues to work items

Concept

• Link work items to support traceability

Tutorial

• Use work item templates
• Add tags to work items
• Azure Boards with Microsoft Teams

Configure & customize

Concept

• About teams & Agile tools
• Configure & customize Boards

Tutorial

• Set area paths
• Set iteration (sprint) paths
• Add a custom field
• Customize the workflow
• See more...

Agile at Scale

Tutorial

• Portfolio management
• Review team deliverables & plans
• Implement Scaled Agile Framework®

Troubleshoot

How-To Guide

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

Quick reference

Reference

• Work items quick reference
• Query quick reference
• Work item field index
• Default work tracking permissions

Developer resources

Reference

• Azure DevOps CLI
• REST API