Azure DevOps for Product Owners and IT Business Analysts. Hands-On Class!

Azure DevOps is not just for developers! If you’re a product owner, business analyst, or UX designer – there’s something in this class for absolutely everyone!

More and more companies choose Azure DevOps to manage their Agile and Scrum workflows. This shift requires team members - including Business Analysts (BAs), Product Owners (POs), software developers, and UX designers - to become proficient with the tool and use it effectively for backlog management, sprint execution, and team collaboration.

In this live online class, I will teach you everything you need to know to take you from a complete beginner to an advanced user. And best of all - we’ll do it using real-world examples and hands-on exercises directly in Azure DevOps.

Why should you care?

More and more companies choose Azure DevOps to manage their Agile and Scrum workflows. This shift requires team members - including Business Analysts (BAs), Product Owners (POs), software developers, and UX designers - to become proficient with the tool and use it effectively for backlog management, sprint execution, and team collaboration.

What You’ll Learn

📌 Agile Backlog Management – Organize Epics, Features, and User Stories effectively.

📌 Sprint Planning & Execution – Plan sprints, assign work, and track progress.

📌 Boards & Work Items – Visualize Agile workflows with Kanban and Scrum boards.

📌 Advanced Queries & Search – Find and categorize work items effortlessly.

📌 Wiki Documentation – Store and manage project documentation directly in Azure DevOps.

📌 Project Administration – Understand key settings for managing ADO projects.

📌 Azure DevOps vs. Jira – Compare key differences between the two platforms.

📌 Dashboards & Reporting – Create real-time visual reports to track Agile progress.

Who Should Attend?

This training is perfect for:

• Business Analysts (BAs) – Manage product backlog and refine user stories.

• Product Owners (POs) – Align backlog priorities with business goals.

• Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches – Facilitate sprint planning and team collaboration.

• Software Developers & UX Designers – Optimize work tracking in an Agile environment.

• Project Managers & Solution Architects – Gain visibility into Agile workflows.

• No prior Azure DevOps experience? No problem! This step-by-step training is designed for both beginners and experienced Agile professionals.

How It Works

• Duration: 3 hours (Live Zoom Training)

• Instructor: Sergey Shimansky, CBAP – BA Mentor & Agile Coach

• Format: 100% Live & Interactive

• Certificate of Completion – Showcase your new skills!

• Hands-on Training: Work directly in Azure DevOps with real-world exercises.

You will work individually and in small groups with other participants on a real-world training project. You will get direct access to my training environment, where you will be assigned functional areas to work on throughout this class.

1. A week prior to the training

• You will receive an email with specific details about the upcoming training, including:

• Your personal login information for access to the Azure DevOps project managed by BACareerMentor. You and other participants will use this during the training.

• A welcome video from your instructor, Sergey Shimansky, CBAP, walking you through the registration in the ADO course project.

• A questionnaire to assess your current level of experience with user stories, Azure DevOps, and the Agile project framework. This information will be used to assign exercises that fit your skill level.

• The link to the private Zoom call that will be used during the training.

2. During the Training

• You will work individually and in small groups with other participants, producing user stories in Azure DevOps.

• We will do this using a real-world training project: an e-commerce website implementation in an Agile environment. Each participant will be assigned a specific functional area/epics, and the complexity of the exercises will be based on prior assessment.

• As we work on the training project, we’ll take pauses to learn some theory and the science behind core Scrum principles and elements, such as Story Points, Definition of Ready, and Scrum Events.

3. Post-Training Benefits

• To help you further implement your new skills and knowledge, the day after the training you will receive:

• A Certificate of Course Completion issued by BACareerMentor.com - use it to demonstrate your newly acquired skills to your colleagues and leaders.

• An invitation to a free, complimentary 1-on-1 Agile coaching session.

• A copy of the hand-out course workbook with all the exercises used at the training.

• Access to the Azure DevOps project for the entire week, use it as a playground to harden your newly acquired skills!

What’s Included?

✅ Intensive hands-on exercises with direct access to a live Azure DevOps environment.

✅ Full emulation of an Agile team's work on an e-commerce project.

✅ Certificate of completion.

✅ Complimentary individual Q&A session with the instructor.

✅ Full money-back guarantee and a flexible cancellation policy.

✅ BONUS: Free lifetime access to a 3-in-1 Discovery Mastermind educational package ($79 value!)

Meet Your Instructor!

Sergey Shimansky is an accomplished IT leader, business analyst, and product owner with over 20 years of experience. As the founder of BACareerMentor.com, Sergey is dedicated to helping aspiring business analysts and product owners accelerate their careers and navigate their professional journeys.

Currently serving as Head of Experience Consulting and Business Analysis at a global leader in service development, digital platform engineering, and digital product design, Sergey has a proven track record of building new digital products. He has led numerous e-commerce and content management projects for Fortune 500 organizations across the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union.

Sergey specializes in project discovery workshops with a focus on e-commerce, content strategy and customer journeys, multi-national content catalog structure, content publishing workflows, content components, content taxonomy and metadata, wireframes and UI interfaces, digital asset management, translation and localization, personalization.

Sergey is a Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP®), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I), and Scaled Agile Professional (SAFe® Agilist).

What Participants Say About Trainings by BA Career Mentor

⭐ "I would give the course a 5/5."

This course was great for me personally. I was able to take away a framework for my JIRA's. Which I agree with in today's world we can not get away with just one liners anymore. And now with this framework for my JIRA's I will be able to provide all the necessary information for my team to deliver work. I think this will not only help understanding but drive better estimation of stories within my team which we have been struggling with currently.

Overall I would give the course a 5/5 it stuck to its objective and I believe if more than meet the expectations I had for it. Would recommend this course to anyone who wanted to learn more on JIRA skills and user story building.

- Jonathan Sharp 🇬🇧

⭐ "Sergey is an excellent instructor."

I enjoyed participating in Sergey’s workshop, ‘User Stories with JIRA for Agile Teams.’ The materials are thorough and include helpful examples that often come up during discovery and backlog refinement sessions. Sergey is an excellent instructor. I highly recommend his workshop to anyone looking to hone their skills in Jira and writing requirements for Agile teams. There are several ideas you can apply to help make your next projects successful.

- John Rader 🇺🇸

⭐ "The best way to learn is by doing."

The ‘User Stories with JIRA for Agile Teams’ workshop led by Sergey Shimansky gets the right balance by being highly practical (the best way to learn is by doing) and immediately applicable. The course material is also a great source of reference for anyone working with Agile daily.

Sergey’s extensive track record in planning and facilitating workshops, combined with his deep understanding of Scrum, made the training incredibly relevant and useful.

One aspect I really liked, which sets this workshop apart, is its tailored approach, offering different tracks and levels of exercises to match each participant’s expertise. This customization ensured that everyone, regardless of their experience level, could fully benefit from the training.

- Beni Goldenberg 🇺🇸

⭐ "Exciting Learning Experience!"

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a two-day instructor-led class on Business Analysis and Agile User Story Creation. This training was incredibly enriching, providing me with valuable insights and practical tips on engaging with stakeholders and teams as a BA.

I actively participated in discussions, sharing my experience and skills to offer some nice insights. Thanks to this collaborative environment, I was able to learn a lot from other participants as well.

A big thank you to Sergey Shimansky, CBAP, for this opportunity, such well-prepared use cases, and insights into stakeholder engagement.

I’m also thrilled to have received a certification of attendance! Looking forward to applying these new skills in the future!

- Adrian Szubert 🇳🇱