Articles tagged with tips
What are all those Warning and Information outputs from a build and why should I care if its not an error?
Reasons why is it important to pay attention to all the warning and information message generated when compiling your code.
Mastering Software Development: A Deep Dive into Trunk-Based Pull Request Workflow
How to implement a pull request workflow within the context of a trunk-based development.
Azure Boards Tips - Retain hierarchy with filter
Why does the hierarchy view [not] vanish when selecting a filter?
Azure Boards Tips - Stop messing with our backlog!
A few useful "did you know" tips when using Azure Boards.
Azure DevOps Transient Faults
Be careful not to annoy Azure DevOps with your automated maintenance jobs!
Pull Request empowered by engineering practices
Pull Requests (PR) enable us improve built-in quality, engineering practices, and streamline our continuous integration pipelines.
Azure Pipelines Conditional Logic
Make your YAML pipelines more versatile with conditional expressions.
Azure Boards Tips for Operations Teams
A few useful "did you know" tips when using Azure Boards for Operational-type teams.
Built-in Quality
Ensuring that our solutions meet quality guardrails and governance from ideation to deprecation.
Automation and the great unknown
Inadvertently restricting access to thousands of pipelines with a simple automated task group insertion.
Make your pipeline badges more compact and meaningful
Tired of cluttering your dashboards with duplicated waste?
How to tame your vacation email traffic
How to ensure you are not confronted by hundreds of emails when you are back-to-work.
How to track (and optimize) your email traffic
How to stop the insane volume of emails and WASTE!
Streamlining your pipeline using the magic of YAML-base Azure Pipelines
Teleport to the future, to optimize the YAML-based Azure Pipeline approvals.
Streamlining your pipeline approvals, without flooding DevSecOps with noise
Back to the future, to optimize the Classic Azure Pipeline approvals.
How to suppress selected logic when running PR validation pipelines
Solving the pipeline-as-code "chicken or the egg" challenge by suppressing selected logic
Checkout your git repos at the right time!
Let us explore why the sequence of checkout steps are important in your Azure Pipeline.
Stop the context switching, reduce waste, and focus on value
A work-life balance is important, however, I believe that stopping waste and focusing on value is just as pivotal!
Gotchas when sharing variables with Azure DevOps stages and jobs
Understanding and avoiding gotchas that may keep you up at 2AM, troubleshooting YAML-based Azure Pipelines
Azure DevOps Experimentation - YAML Conditionals, Parameters, and Triggers
Snippets of common questions and issues from Azure Pipeline workshops and support calls. Today's snippet includes conditionals, parameters, and triggers.
How to share variables amongst Azure Pipeline agents
As per documentation, output variables can be used across stages in an Azure YAML-based pipeline. I will share a few turbulent moments we experienced while troubleshooting this feature in one of our pipeline blueprints.
Find the capabilities and IP addresses of an Azure DevOps agent
How to find more information on hosted Azure DevOps agents, such as capabilities and IP addresses.
The clash of Azure DevOps Kanban fields and Shared Area Paths
Shared area paths can introduce inconsistency and confusion.
Searching for common nodes across area paths
How can we find area path with specific text in their name?
Use the move to team project feature with caution!
The "Move to Team Project" feature can reset your work item state and dates