Questions tagged [devops]
DevOps (development and operations) is a software development method that emphasizes communication and integration between Development and IT Operation.
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How can we give customer better estimates for delivered work and estimated hours next month?
We are working for a customer where we are using Azure DevOps for planning and estimating work in Sprints. This is the usual way to plan the work among our developers, but our customer wants a better ...
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Devops Timeline Estimates
Im having trouble finding sources as to how much time should be allocated for devops tasks that include dockerizing the code, creating ci/cd pipeline (on AWS for example), as well as creating the ...
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DevOps & Development Teams Processes, Procedures, Communication & Coordination to ensure tha latest supported technologies are used in development
Like many IT departments, we have numerous Developer teams, and DevOp teams.
Recently, our .NET Development Team just completed an application
based on .NET 3.1 that took around a year to complete.
We ...
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How to properly add or manage a repeated User Story in Auzre DevOps's backlog?
A user story needs to happen each sprint, and I want it to handle it properly - whatever that may mean - within Azure DevOps. I am used to adding user stories for single-issue tickets but have never ...
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How to integrate DevOps people into a Scrum Team?
NB: In our company's internal lexicon, "DevOps" is a role set by our company that means "infrastructure and operations person" rather than standard DevOps. I know it's more of a ...
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How does the use of CI/CD make it easier to handle the loss or absence of key staff?
I'm working on a project that has no CI/CD. We have only one person who builds the code and deploys it to staging and production. In the past there have been discussions on implementing CI/CD, but to ...
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Multiple teams share same User Story!
I have a project that will be handled by more than one platform: Web - ios - android
There is a team for each platform.
All teams will share the same User stories.
For example:
The same "Login&...
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Does a vertical slice mean a single merge request?
Let's suppose we're talking about the microservices architecture. And let's say that after refinement, we ended up with a feature (vertical slice) that implies making changes in two microservices - is ...
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Why do Kanban Boards only contain one deployment?
I'm tasked with customizing the ticket statuses and kanban board for our software development project.
I realized that Microsoft Kanban Boards and actually all other kanban boards I could find only ...
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Multiple Assignees to Azure DevOps task
How do we enable multiple assignees to Azure DevOps tasks? Or is there any feature to add followers to Azure DevOps tasks.
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How to use Azure DevOps to track tasks done yesterday and task to be performed today?
How can i configure Azure DevOps to get reports similar to daily scrum meeting template. There is need to get report on what task was worked on yesterday, and what task will be done today, effectively ...
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In an Azure DevOps work item Excel file, how do I assign parent without having to see closed siblings?
I'm using the "Teams" tab provided by MS in Excel to add repeating Azure DevOps User Stories (US), i.e. work that needs to be done every sprint (don't ask). This seems to be the recommended approach ...
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Is there anyway I can find all tags in Team Server Foundation?
We are trying to clean up Team Foundation Server. The problem on hand is that we are using the older version (Not the latest Azure DevOps) and over the period of time we haven't used standard tags. So ...
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How to Manage Sprint Cadence With Multiple Teams in Two Timezones
Doing my best to make this an "answerable" question and not just a discussion. While it might not be a perfect question, I think it fits the overall SO guidelines.
I'm looking for best practices (or ...
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What does "N" mean and how to count
I've been doing some research around managing our sprint cadence to align teams across time zones and came upon, "N+1" when describing a day of a sprint. I've not been able to find a definition of "N" ...
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What type of assessment/analysis model should I use?
I've been brought into an organization to improve their Release Management. A couple years ago they went through a transition to Agile development. I have two work streams: Run & Improve.
Boots ...
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Correct Work Item Hierarchy in Azure Dev Ops
We are currently switching from our so-and-so somewhat agile management approach to Scrum and I as a developer have a hard time understanding, what comes first in Azure DevOps as the top level item.
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Understanding Azure devops burndown
I do not understand why the burndown is looking like it is. Remaining work is higher than capacity - but in the details remaining work is lower than remaining capacity.
Can anyone help?
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Is there a way to search Project tags in Azure DevOps
We have an organization within Azure DevOps and many projects within. I have started to tag projects. I'd like to be able to search tags and list the projects that have that specific tag in the ...
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DevOps and support organization
Nowadays companies go into devops practices to boost productivity.
In our case we (3rd party outsourcing vendor) developed a first version of the product for our client , it’s cloud based platform.
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How to measure bug incidence in Production?
We have a fully automated deploy process but as we now sometimes we break things.
When this happens the developer just apply a hot fix in (branch, fix and opens a PR) the trunk development. As you ...
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Lacking a dedicated Product Owner
We have a Super Product Owner, who cannot possibly be involved in writing or refining every story - they simply set the overall priority on the board.
We have Subject Matter Experts, whose day job is ...
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BDD Gherkin definition of un-gherkin-like work
We are dealing with the split of work which, in the old process, would have all been one big task; Now, (under Scrum) that work is split into stories and refined. We are using BDD to define those ...
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Does Kanban apply well in practice to software projects with data science background?
A more or less new trend which I observe is integration of data science processes (i.e. workflows required to setup and execute experiments) to design and delivery of user facing apps.
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What are the responsibilities of a project manager in a DevOps project?
How can a project manager foster greater accountability between empowered DevOps personnel and empowered developers in an Agile environment?
I work in an environment where both developers and DevOps ...
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As a Scrum Master, what could I do to encourage devops in my company?
DevOps – a cultural and professional IT movement focused on changing the mindset of how organizations function – will no doubt make a significant impact across many companies. In my companies, we have ...
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How is XP/ Continuous Integration different from DevOps?
Is DevOps just the new "cool" term for Extreme Programming?
Recently speaking with a company about doing some coaching work for them. They have decided that to be successful they need to do "DevOps" ...
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