Need to record project deadline in Azure DevOps - is there a way of adding a field to the project information?

Question

We have a process with Azure DevOps that automatically creates sprints for projects. The issue with this is that we often end up creating sprints that we don't need, and there are issues around people who are unfamiliar with project management (or useless at it is perhaps more accurate) picking everything up from the previous sprint and dropping it into the next which means some projects are in danger of going on forever more.

What I'd like to do is record the project deadline so it's clear for all. Ideally I see this being a field alongside the project description. Is that possible? I only seem to be able to edit items like user stories and tasks, but I need this to cover project level.

Otherwise is there any other way of recording the project deadline within Azure DevOps??

Answer 1

Otherwise is there any other way of recording the project deadline within Azure DevOps??

Sorry but for now Azure devops doesn't have such out-of-box Project-level field.

Workaround:

According to your description, you could record the deadline in Project Summary so that members will see the deadline every time they open this project.

The Project Summary supports README file that we maintain in project repository or project Wiki. The README and wiki both support adding images so that we can add Text description or Image description to display the deadline in Project Summary.

(README)

Furthermore we can use WorkItem to track the deadline. Create feature which supports Target Date field=>Create shared query to get the workitem details(Add column options=>Target date)=>Insert query into Wiki page:

(Wiki)