Is there a report or notification for user stories moved out of an iteration?

Question

Situation: I'm using Azure DevOps and doing release management for several products. Each product has multiple product owners, PMs and team members who update ADO regularly. On occasion a story is moved to a different iteration. I don't know when this happens unless I'm told by the person doing it or notice it when reviewing story queries.

Goal: I'd like to track any stories that get moved to a different iteration (or the backlog) after the sprint has begun. Basically, if it gets moved, I want to know about it.

I've tinkered with the Notifications feature, but haven't figured out how to get this info.

Ask: Is there a report, dashboard widget or notification setting I can use for this? If not, is there a way I could do it with a query? Ideally, I'd like a report/widget so I can track carryover, sprint to sprint. But I'll take whatever I can get. :)

Answer 1

If you don't mind doing a little maintenance sprint to sprint, you can probably use a notification to see when things are change. Once you've finalized the current sprint scope, just update the notification to the current sprint's value.

Answer 2

Found a complete resolution for this question with no manual workaround.

• Asking for when either the Area Path or Iteration changes (at all) will yield any/all changes to paths. However, every new item created is technically a change, so it gets those as well.
• By using "Rev > 1" it filters out the new items. (New work items are created with a Rev of 1 and subsequent modifications will increment that number.)