I want to use ADO for product best practice: Capacity, Dependency, road-mapping, planning (quarterly releases/PIs). Is this supported or I need a propriate tool for product managers ?

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I want to use ADO for product best practice: Capacity, Dependency, road-mapping, planning (quarterly releases/PIs). Is this supported or I need a propriate tool for product managers ?

Answer 1

Hi Yaki Carmeli,

Azure DevOps supports many product management best practices including capacity planning, dependency management, roadmapping, and backlog hierarchy customization.

Azure DevOps has built-in Capacity Planning under Sprint Planning, where teams can assign capacity per team member, set work hours per sprint or track available effort in hours or story points.

Note- it does not natively support Quarterly Planning/Program Increments. For that you may need to use extensions like Delivery Plans. Also checkout- Delivery Plan

Next one is Dependency management.

ADO provides ways to manage dependencies using work Item Linking (Predecessor-Successor) or via custom Queries to track cross-team dependencies. But ADO does not have automated risk-based dependency tracking, so you can use Power BI reports for more advanced visualization.

And regarding your last question about customer feedback- Azure DevOps Work Item Forms allow users to submit feedback.

and yes, with custom work item types you can add a custom Initiative layer between Epic & Goal using Process Customization.

Additional documents for your reference-

• https://pdtit.medium.com/collecting-feedback-in-ado-work-items-from-office-forms-8ff347b271aa
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/user-guide/provide-feedback?view=azure-devops
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/backlogs/create-your-backlog?view=azure-devops&tabs=agile-process
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/settings/work/manage-process?view=azure-devops If you found this answer helpful, please accept it so that others in the QnA community can benefit from it as well. Thank you.