From a PowerShell script to my first Azure DevOps extension

This one started with a client request and a PowerShell script.

The problem was simple enough: they wanted to build useful Azure DevOps dashboard charts, but the fields they needed lived on the parent work item. That meant manually copying data to the child items or accepting that the query just couldn’t tell the full story.

The PowerShell solution worked. Job done.

Except… I wanted to take it to the next level.

So I (or actually we, Codex and myself) turned it into Parent-to-Child Field Sync, my first Azure DevOps Marketplace extension. It automatically copies the parent fields you select to child work items, making them available for queries, dashboards and reporting without the manual duplication.

The synchronization runs through native Azure Pipelines. No sharing of PATs, no separate service to host and no extra infrastructure. It stays inside Azure DevOps, and it’s open source.

👉 Get Parent-to-Child Field Sync from the Azure DevOps Marketplace

What started as “this PowerShell script solves the problem” somehow became a real Marketplace extension. The first version is out now, which feels pretty cool.

If you give it a try, let me know what you think. Would this be useful in your Azure DevOps setup? And what would you like to see added next?