1Configure Processes and Communications
- 1.1Agile Planning and Work Tracking
Understand agile planning—Azure Boards, work items, backlogs/sprints, and Kanban. Visualize team work and manage the flow of value.
- 1.2DevOps Metrics and Flow
Understand DevOps improvement metrics—DORA metrics (deployment frequency/lead time for changes/change failure rate/MTTR), cycle time, and dashboards. Improve continuously with data.
- 1.3Collaboration and Integration
Understand team collaboration—notifications/service hooks, Teams/Slack integration, Wikis, traceability (work item ↔ commit ↔ build), and auditing. Design information flow and traceability.

