WorkBoard now supports deeper integration between Azure DevOps and Key Results, so you can connect real work items directly to the outcomes you’re driving. Use it to:
- Show what work is driving a Key Result
- Reduce manual status updates
- Keep stakeholders aligned on delivery
- Improve visibility into progress and risk
- Pull key work item details into WorkBoard (owner, hours, status, etc.)
This integration lets you connect work items by either:
- selecting specific work items, or
- using an Azure DevOps saved queries
Before You Start: Enable the Azure DevOps Integration
To connect Azure DevOps work items, you first need to enable the Azure DevOps (New) integration in your WorkBoard account settings.
- Go to your WorkBoard integration settings page
- Find Azure DevOps (New) under Data Connectors
- Click Enable
Connect a Key Result to Azure DevOps
- Open the Key Result you want to connect work to
- Click Add Relationship
- Select Azure DevOps
- Authenticate using OAuth (new option)
- Choose how you want to pull in work items:
- Saved query (recommended for ongoing work tracking), or
- Select work items (search and connect individual items)
- (Optional) Select additional work item fields to import (ex: owner, hours, status)
- Click Save
Your Azure DevOps items will now appear as related bodies of work under that Key Result.
Notes & Known Limitations
- Connected ADO items will not show up as linked connections in the Azure DevOps plugin at this time
- You may see the option to connect Azure DevOps items directly to Objectives as related items as well — this won’t work yet.
- Azure DevOps items are not yet showing on the Strategy Relationship Map tree and Scorecards as related items; threading this experience through theses channels is currently under development.