Focus on how to structure and model your ADO data for effective reporting.
Includes topics like creating data models, relationships, and calculated columns.
Why Display the ADO Sprint Status on a Power BI Report Analytics Views (AV) provide the iteration start and end dates and the full path. It does not provide a field to show the past, future, or current iteration like… Read More »How to Display the ADO Sprint Status in a Power BI Report
Find a Custom Work Item Field Azure DevOps work item templates offer the flexibility to customize by adding new fields, allowing teams to tailor the platform to their specific software processes. These newly added fields will automatically appear in the… Read More »How to Find a Custom Work Item Field in ODATA
Options to Select the Data Model for Azure DevOps Reporting When it comes to data reporting, particularly with Power BI for visualizing Azure DevOps data, selecting the right Power BI data model for Azure DevOps reporting is crucial. A well-chosen… Read More »Learn How to Select the Data Model for Azure DevOps Reporting
Visualizing ADO Workitems in a Hierarchial Data Model To effectively visualize the hierarchical structure of work items in Azure DevOps (ADO) within Power BI, you need to create a data model that mirrors ADO’s inherent structure. This involves linking work… Read More »Visualizing ADO Workitems: Epics to Tasks with Rollup Metrics
Easily Create a Single Table Data Model for Effective Reporting To create an effective ADO report, you don’t need a complex data model if your goal is to provide summary information. Using an Analytics View is the easiest way to… Read More »Easily Create a Single Table Data Model Report
Create Work Item Rollup Calculations with a Hierarchy Data Model in Power BI Generating reports on Azure DevOps (ADO) work items in Power BI can be quite challenging, especially when dealing with hierarchical relationships. ADO’s current reporting capabilities only support… Read More »Easily Create a Work Item Rollup Calculations Report
Publish and Setup Data Refresh for your ADO Report Publishing a Power BI report and setting up data refreshes through the Azure DevOps analytics interface is one of the last steps to go live with the report. This blog post… Read More »How to Publish and Setup Data Refresh for the Power BI Report
Quickly Query ADO Workitems with Tags using a ODATA When using Azure DevOps (ADO), you may observe that tags associated with work items are returned differently depending on whether you employ Analytics Views (AVs) or an OData query. AVs return… Read More »Query ADO Workitems with Tag in Power BI
Improving Data Insights with Time Intelligence Integrating a date table to Azure DevOps (ADO) reporting in Power BI is essential for generating reports that offer a thorough analysis of work items, pipelines, and testing in ADO. A date dimension is… Read More »Add a Date Table to Azure DevOps Reporting
Filter Work Items by Tags Creating a report in Power BI using work items from Azure DevOps (ADO) offers a powerful way to visualize and analyze project data. One particularly effective feature is the ability to filter work items by… Read More »Filter Work Items by ADO Tags in Power BI
Optimize the Power BI Report with a Star Schema Data Model using Analytic Views or ODATA Using a star schema data model in your Power BI report to link iterations and area paths to the work items fact table offers… Read More »Optimize your ADO Reports with a Star Schema Data Model in Power BI