Setup your Azure DevOps integration in Avion
Step through the straightforward setup process, map your states and choose your required area path setup.
Azure DevOps is fast-becoming the perfect backlog and pipeline management tool for many teams. We absolutely love their toolset, but it’s just missing one thing — a user story map view. Pair it up with Avion and you’ve got all bases covered.
Sync all three tiers of your user story map
Our integration utilises both Features and Epics within Azure DevOps to create a true three-tier hierarchy, so your user stories will also maintain the context of their respective user journeys.
Don't want to sync all three tiers?
You can also integrate with Azure DevOps without syncing the structure and hierarchy of your story map — keeping your Avion stories and Azure DevOps work items in sync — without touching your Epics and Features. This lightweight approach allows your dev team to organise their backlog however they want.
Same project, different area paths
Avion allows you to select which area path within a particular project you would like to sync, meaning that you can have a story map for each area path. We even allow you to select an area path plus all its children, to future-proof your map.
Automatic two-way syncing, always
Whenever a release or user story is pushed from Avion to Azure DevOps, all data will be kept in sync whichever tool is used to update it. So you can update your titles, descriptions, story sizes or structure, safely in the knowledge that both tools are up-to-date.
Plan in Avion. Execute in Azure DevOps.
Don’t confuse your dev team by trying to plan upcoming releases where day-to-day work is tracked. With Avion, you can freely plan your product releases, safe in the knowledge that you aren’t cluttering your Azure DevOps backlog and board. This means you can keep your dev team focussed on what needs to happen right now whilst retaining your longer-term product roadmap in Avion.
How does it work?
Import existing data from Azure DevOps
Get all your current project’s user stories into Avion, so you can start linking them up with your user journeys and steps. These stories will be immediately two-way synced.
Push new stories and releases
Define and prioritise new releases within Avion and then push them to Azure DevOps, where your dev team can start picking up the work.
Track and monitor in either tool
Any card that is synced will remain up-to-date in either tool, so you can monitor your dev team’s Azure DevOps updates right from your Avion user story map.
Evolve your processes
Use our Azure DevOps configuration options to tweak and update how your states are mapped to your Avion workflow.
