Azure Boards documentation

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

Get started with Azure Boards

Overview

• What is Azure Boards?
• About work items

Quickstart

• Sign up and invite teammates
• Plan and track work
• Get started as a Stakeholder

Choose a Kanban or Scrum methodology

Overview

• Kanban board overview
• About sprints and Scrum

Tutorial

• Set up a Kanban board
• Assign work to sprints

How-To Guide

• Add board columns
• Set sprint capacity
• Set work-in-progress (WIP) limits

Concept

• Best practices for Scrum

Plan and organize your work

Quickstart

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

Tutorial

• Use work item templates
• Add tags to work items

Concept

• Best practices for Agile project management

Track and manage work items

Tutorial

• Create and use queries
• Search for work items
• Define, triage, and manage bugs
• Remove, delete, or restore work items

How-To Guide

• Bulk modify work items in the web portal
• Bulk modify work items in Excel
• Follow a work item
• Manage your personal notifications
• Manage team notifications

Concept

• About notifications
• Default and supported notifications

Monitor progress and performance

Overview

• Dashboards overview
• About Analytics views

Quickstart

• Add widgets to a dashboard

Tutorial

• Monitor sprint burndown
• Configure a cumulative flow diagram
• Configure a velocity widget

How-To Guide

• View lead time and cycle time
• Add charts to dashboards

Secure and govern your projects

Overview

• Secure your Azure Boards
• Default permissions and access

How-To Guide

• Set work-tracking permissions
• Add external users
• Manage Conditional Access

Customize and extend Azure Boards

Overview

• About process customization

Quickstart

• Add a custom field

Tutorial

• Customize work item cards on boards
• Customize column display on boards
• Add swimlanes to expedite work
• Create an inherited process
• Customize a workflow

How-To Guide

• Automate work-item state transitions
• Add and manage custom work item types
• Customize rules on a work item type

Concept

• Configure and customize Azure Boards

Reference

• Browse Azure Boards extensions in the Marketplace

Scale for larger organizations

Tutorial

• Manage portfolios across teams
• Review team deliverables and plans

How-To Guide

• Create and edit a delivery plan
• Track dependencies with delivery plans

Concept

• About teams and Agile tools

Integrate with developer tools and chat

Quickstart

• Connect Azure Boards to GitHub
• Link GitHub commits and pull requests

Tutorial

• Azure Boards with Microsoft Teams
• Azure Boards with Slack

How-To Guide

• Link work items to GitHub commits, branches, and pull requests
• Use GitHub Copilot with Azure Boards

Find references and troubleshoot issues

Reference

• Work item field index
• Work items quick reference
• Query quick reference
• Azure DevOps CLI (Boards)
• REST API (Boards)
• Azure Boards FAQs
• All troubleshooting guides and FAQs

How-To Guide

• Fix reordering and nesting issues