When approaching what I consider to be a pretty straightforward problem, I always think to myself, “I can’t be the first one to have had this issue.” Not only that, on the day of AI, when I think a task should take minutes, I actually spend hours trying to figure it out. Case in point, … Read More
When I was starting to work with the JIRA Webhooks, one problem I started to run into was understanding what some of the fields actually were. I vaguely remembered this from my years on customizing JIRA, where all fields are given a very unique field name because the level of customization is so extensive. Case … Read More
Similar to the posts I’ve written about creating Webhooks for AzureDevOps and Git, you can do the same for Jira. To get started, you need to navigate to System Settings and then down to Webhooks. The amount of information and events that you can extract from JIRA is quite significant. In the below screenshot, I … Read More
We previously looked at retrieving data from GIT using a webhook to get real-time events, but if your primary goal is to only retrieve data from a particular point in time or in a batch fashion, doing so via their REST API might be more useful to you. The Setup Before starting, you are going … Read More
Similar to Azure DevOps, you can set up a WebHook in GIT to collect data when changes are made to the system. Webhooks in GIT are not global and apply to each project you configure them on. Configuring Your Webhook To start, you create your HTTP “listener” URL and add that to GIT. It’s important … Read More
Sometimes you are going to want to retrieve work items from your Azure DevOps Organization, maybe to perform some complex functions that you can’t do inside of DevOps. Maybe it’s merging data between different projects, comparing who did what work across different organizations, etc, etc. Whatever the reason, you’re going to want to get that … Read More
When I look at delivery processes that don’t succeed, it’s not because they don’t follow Agile or that they are Waterfall or that Kanban doesn’t scale – it’s that they aren’t tracking the right items. I was doing a workshop a number of years ago before kicking off a big project on what kind of … Read More
If you have created a number of Azure DevOps Service Connections, you might start to see a list like this (I’ve blanked out all the GUIDs) that becomes not only tricky to manage but difficult to read and understand what their end use is. For all of this, you should be using Powershell 7+. If … Read More
