Adding a new WorkItem Type in Azure DevOps Process Template

Azure DevOps Process templates gives us the ability to add new workitem types of our choice. We can add our own customized process templates with customized new fields. Follow the below steps to create a new workitem type

Pre requisites: You should be a Project Collection Administrator and the process template where you are trying to add should be a inherited process template

Step 1: Go to Organization Settings

Step 2: Go to Process

Step 3: Go to the Process template in which you want to add a new workitem type

Step 4: Then Click on “New WorkItem Type” as shown

Step 5: You can choose a customized workitem type name and description as shown (You can choose you own icon as well as color)

Step 6: Then Click on “Create”.

Step 7: As soon as you click on “Create”, a new workitem type will be created as shown

You can also see the new workitem type in the list of workitems in the process template