Move your product backlog to another team in Azure DevOps
How to move or migrate a project backlog to another DevOps team and location efficiently.
“I did this before!” That was the first thing that occured to me when I was transferring a product backlog within Azure DevOps. It felt like reinventing the wheel since I did not remember in detail how I did it the previous time. It is a task I do once in a few years, so the details get over time. I will document this process this time and hopefully it will help some of you who face the same challenge.
Do we migrate a product backlog by copying the contents of each item, by migrating them one-by-one or is there a quicker and faster why to do this?!
Azure DevOps project environment
In Azure DevOps everything starts at the level Project. The project is the top level item and teams and products are added to this project. Within a project several teams work on their products. A Team is added in the “project settings” under “Teams”. The project level also decides the process used by all teams. Azure DevOps has four built-in processes: Basic, Agile, Scrum and CMMI. The most used processes are Scrum and Agile. See choose a process flow for more information.
A major difference between the Scrum and Agile process is the definition of the primary…
