Managing system requirements in Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps enables you to document system requirements using work items. Work items are stored in your project as chunks of information that can be assigned to a person. They are classified into various types and may contain a measure of the development effort required, a status, and the development stage (iteration) they belong to.
DevOps is usually combined with agile methodologies, so Azure DevOps uses iterations, and the whole development process is organized as a set of sprints. The work items available depend on the work item process you select while creating the Azure DevOps project. The following subsections contain a description of the most common work item types that appear when an Agile or Scrum work item process is selected (the default is Agile).
Epic work items
Imagine you are developing a system comprising various subsystems. You are probably not going to conclude the whole system in a single iteration. Therefore...