Agile Project Management Futures (August 2015)

This post details upcoming enhancements to Azure Boards and Visual Studio Online's agile project management features. Key updates include a new Work Item Form with improved readability, structure, and integration of related data like history and code artifacts. It will feature a rich discussion experience with @mention and #id intellisense, a new history experience with filtering, and support for custom fields and work item types. The post also announces the introduction of Dashboards, a customizable canvas for ALM and DevOps data, starting with existing home pages and expanding to new widgets. Kanban metrics for lead and cycle time are being bundled with the dashboard work. Specific updates include the ability to query and view Kanban columns from backlogs and query results, and the introduction of inline tasks on Kanban boards, allowing for lightweight interactions like editing titles and marking as done directly from the board.