Organizing your work using Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps will be discussed in detail in Chapter 21, Understanding DevOps Principles, but you need to understand it as a philosophy that is focused on delivering value to customers. It is the union of people, processes, and products, where Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) methodology is used to apply continuous improvements to a software application delivered to the production environment. Azure DevOps is a powerful tool whose range of applications encompasses all the steps involved in both the initial development of an application and in its subsequent CI/CD process.

Azure DevOps contains tools for collecting requirements and for organizing the whole development process. They can be accessed by clicking the Boards menu on the Azure DevOps page and will be described in more detail in the next two sections:

Figure 3.8: Boards menu

All other functionalities available in Azure DevOps are briefly reviewed...