Work Item Quality

Introducing a small but impactful marketplace extension for Azure Boards called "Work Item Assistant." The tool is designed to solve one of the most common frustrations in project management: the poor quality and lack of detail in work item cards. While teams have tried solutions like making fields compulsory, these often fail as users input minimal information. This new extension, however, leverages OpenAI to automatically do the work of writing high-quality card descriptions, which the presenter finds to be a genuinely exciting solution.

In this practical demonstration, we start with a card that has only a title. By clicking an "Improve it" button within the extension, the AI generates a comprehensive, natural-language description based on the title alone. The tool is also interactive, allowing the user to add more specific details, such as a target NPS score, which the AI seamlessly incorporates into the description. This process is quick, simple, and replaces the need for team members to manually write detailed card information.