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Doug Bock
Doug Bock

Reputation: 1

Within Azure DevOps, in a Scrum project, change the work type label from "product backlog item" to "user story"

Default hierarchy in ADO using SCRUM config option is epic>feature>product backlog item>task. This is causing confusion for my teams (confusion = waste). I would like to change it to epic>feature>user story>task. This is the default when configuring in "agile" but not in "scrum".

I have watched a 2 hour video that mentions that at the org level you can change it, but it does not show where. I have parsed through all the configuration pages and I did find "work item type" with an ellipsis... but only option was to delete. I expected to see "product backlog item" but it was not shown.

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Answers (1)

Bhargavi Annadevara
Bhargavi Annadevara

Reputation: 5502

Hello and welcome to Stack Overflow!

Yes, this is achievable by tweaking the Organization Settings. You can find it on the landing page of your organization: https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}

Org Settings

Or you may also directly navigate to: https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}/_settings/process to browse through the Process settings for your organization.

You will find Agile, Basic, Scrum, and CMMI listed within, which are System processes, and hence are locked from being changed. What you can now do is to create an inherited process as shown in the screenshot below

Process Settings

Click on the newly created process to see the defined workitem types. It is here that you may disable Product Backlog Item and add User Story as a new workitem type.

Workitem Types

Then you may switch over to the Backlog levels tab and edit the Requirement backlog section to configure the User Story work item type as a backlog level and set it to be the default work item type, as shown below:

Edit Backlog Level

After this is saved, you should be able to emulate the workflow you desired: Epic > Feature > User Story > Task.

I tried the above mentioned steps on a Test project I had, and voila, was able to get the following structure created as under:

TestScrumWorkflow

Please try and check if this fits your requirement.

Hope this helps!

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