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The Five Things series on MSDN Channel 9 anchored by Burke Hollands has informal answers by Microsoft experts to interesting questions all in about 5 minutes along with some no holds barred, light banter. Giving it a funny spin in the mould of US sitcoms, the tech talk series is in Season 2 now. Along with 10-minute Azure Friday , these 2 talk shows make Azure topics informative & entertaining Here is the short version of Five Things about Azure DevOps  from the cleaned up subtitles file : # 1. What is Azure DevOps? Azure DevOps is the new product name for Visual Studio Team Services which is Microsoft's DevOps product. It's Microsoft's DevOps product and DevOps lifecycle from Source Control and Work Item planning, all the way through to your Builds and Releases, and monitoring...what's happening in production and everything about your application. DevOps itself is not really a tool. Microsoft's definition of DevOps is the union of people,process an...

* What is a Workspace? It is a mapping between a computer and TFS for the purposes of version control * When files are checked in, they are... all tracked as part of the same changeset and that changeset has a number * What is the Product Backlog? List of all desires and requirements for the product * What is the Sprint Backlog? List of Product Backlog Items or User Stories for the sprint plus the tasks to be performed * If you are not currently connected to TFS via a network, what is required to perform a version control Undo on a file? A local workspace * If you have a Local workspace, what do you need to prevent someone from modifying a file in TFS? A check-in lock * What does the Scrum Board do? Helps you to visualize and manage the state of the project during a sprint * What does a Branch help you do? Simultaneously work on different versions of a code base.This helps in feature development isolation. * What does a Merg...