Question

Your engineering organization uses Azure Boards for backlog management and Slack for team communication. The delivery lead wants engineers to receive a Slack message in the #team-releases channel whenever a work item in the 'Delivery' area path transitions to the 'Resolved' state, but they do NOT want notifications for any other state change or area path. The solution must require minimal ongoing maintenance and avoid custom code hosting. Which approach should you implement?

Accepted Answer

Configure the Azure Boards app for Slack and create a subscription with a filter on area path and the 'work item updated' event scoped to the Resolved state.

Answer

Create an outgoing service hook in Azure DevOps that posts to a Slack incoming webhook on every 'work item updated' event, then filter messages inside Slack with a workflow rule.

Answer

Deploy an Azure Function triggered by an Azure Boards service hook that inspects each event payload and forwards only matching events to Slack.

Answer

Enable the built-in Azure DevOps email notification for the Delivery team and configure Slack to ingest the notification mailbox.