Kendis provides capabilities to create PI Planning and Tracking board integrated to AzureDevOps and it has 2-way sync, so any changes made in Kendis are visible in AzureDevOps instantly and vice versa.
Step by Step Guide to Create Program Board
To create your board, follow these steps
1) Create Board
Follow these steps to create board and it will also ask to create the Connection to AzureDevOps
Select Board Type
Click on the create board at the main landing page
Select your scaling model
Provide Title of your board
Select PI Dates and Duration (It's an optional field, you can edit later as well)
Select "AzureDevOps (TFS, 2018 2019) as board type
Create Connection to AzureDevOps (Referred as ALM Connection in Kendis)
Type the label (It can be just any name, like AzureConnection-abc)
URL of your AzurdevOps or your TFS server. We currently support TFS 2019 and TFS 2018 versions only.
Personal Access Token:
Create personal access token (PAT) from your account. In case, not sure how to create token, please follow this link.Token Access Rights: Kendis requires following permissions to be selected at minimum to be able to work properly.
- Work Items (Read, write, & manage)
- Project and Team (Read, write, & manage)
- Token Administration (Read & manage)
Test Connection and if all OK, SAVE it
Teams
Create Teams, select their name, prefix and color
Sprints
Create Sprints, set their dates and prefix
(Tip: If you set the dates for the first sprint, Kendis will automatically pick the dates of your next sprint for same duration)
Preview Board and Save
2) Load Projects
Your board is now created and next step is to load projects into Kendis. Kendis doesn't load at this stage all the items into Kendis, it's more like metadata of the project, item types, statuses etc.
3) Get Features
To get features, click on the blue button on the left hand side of the board, or go to Edit Board Settings and select "Contents from AzureDevOps" tab
You can use your query (referred as filter in the UI) or WiQL here
4) Map Teams and Sprints
Teams that you created in the first step can now be linked to your relevant projects and team area
Go to edit board settings
Click on the "Teams" tab
Click on the "Not Synced" link at the settings
Select your project
Select your team
Select the "default" area path. If you have multiple, this default will be used at drag and drop action. However, you can edit individual item at Kendis and change the area path as well.
Select item type as "Story"
Now map the team sprints
and Save this setting
You can repeat this step to sync all of your teams.
These are the main steps to configure your board that is synced to AzureDevOps or TFS.
Next step is to start using your board with teams for your planning.