Use Cases

Combine Azure Boards data with other sources

Synchronize and link data from Azure Boards with self-written needs or needs imported from systems like JIRA or CodeBeamer.

Get a single document of truth for your overall project data.

Publish specific data for external access

Use Aero to create subsets of information for users and organizations, which should not have access to an internal Azure Boards instance. For instance extract specifications for suppliers, without any internal information.

Create Baselines and Archives

Aero can be used to create baselines of data from Azure Boards at a particular date. E.g. create a list of all open bugs at the release date. And archive the generated documentation to be compatible with ISO26262 and other safety standards.

Customized, combined views

Sphinx-Needs and Aero can be used to create project and user specific views on your data. This gets especially helpful when the shown data contains information from additional systems like JIRA or CodeBeamer.

Features

Sphinx-Needs Aero

Create needs objects based on elements from Azure Boards.
Filter and manipulate data during import.
Map different data elements from Sphinx-Needs and Azure Boards together. E.g. Assignee -> Developer
Customize content and replace values automatically. E.g. done -> closed
Retrieve data during build or by script ab2needs.
Update selectable elements in Azure Boards via script needs2ab.

Sphinx-Needs

Present imported data in tables, flowcharts, pie charts and more.
Link imported data from Azure Boards with needs from other systems like JIRA or CodeBeamer
Automatically by using dynamic fields
Manually by using needextend
Extend imported needs with custom data by using needextend.
Export all data and information to json-files.