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Likelihood to Recommend
Azure DevOps Services
Before using Azure DevOps, the department was calculating metrics by hand. It was a very tedious process that, at times required duplicate effort. Once we added the online boards, we were able to let the cards automatically calculate dates and provide us with team metrics instantly. It is also great for being able to easily move features from one team to another. Before we added all teams in the same project, it would require us to re-enter the features. We move features around a lot so that has been a big help. I also like the board customization, not all of our teams follow the exact same Agile flow, so allowing each board to have its own columns, states, and notifications give flexibility to each team.
Product Owner
Development Dimensions InternationalHuman Resources, 1001-5000 employees
MindManager
Well suited for all business planning: strategic, project and brainstorming. I have not used MindManager collaboratively, so I don't know how well it works across multiple team members for project management. Groups always appreciate when I run meeting or presentation in MindManager: all types of employees naturally understand the mapping workflow, although some prefer when I use the Outline View when I share notes.
I use MindManager to successfully manage large projects, from initial ideation and scoping, to discovery and requirements, and to follow the project through to completion and retrospective. Budgets are easy to track inside the app, but the specific day-to-day tasks are usually handled in other applications, leaving the higher-level (milestones) to be tracked in MindManager. I haven't been able to replicate the flexible of applications specifically designed for task management inside MindManager.
Database Specialist
Early Childhood Investment CorporationEducation Management, 11-50 employees
Pros
Azure DevOps Services
- Flexible Requirements Hierarchy Management: AZDO makes it easy to track items such as features or epics as a flat list, or as a hierarchy in which you can track the parent-child relationship.
- Fast Data Entry: AZDO was designed to facilitate quick data entry to capture work items quickly, while still enabling detailed capture of acceptance criteria and item properties.
- Excel Integration: AZDO stands out for its integration with MS Excel, which enables quick updates for bulk items.

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Company, 5001-10,000 employeesMindManager
- Excellent big picture overview with easy expansion and contraction of map
- Detailed drill-down capability into separate line-items and notes
- Publishing capability to share MindManager with other connected or interested parties
- Convenient and easy to use hyperlink capability that can be launched within MindManager or in a separate window
- Ability to link to and launch another MindManager from within current one
- Excellent integration with Outlook
Cloud Architect
Nations IDGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees
Cons
Azure DevOps Services
- Need to make the changes so that it doesn't occupy most of the CPU utilization and memory
- Execution of Bulky SQl Queries leads to either the SQl being out of exception or the VS being unresponsive
- Integration with Microsoft products is easy, but with non-Microsoft products it is more difficult, and you have to make a lot of configuration changes to integrate
- With every upgrade of the Visual Studio, like from VS 2010 to VS 2013 , we need to upgrade our hardware/machine, as the VS hardware requirement also increases
- If code is getting compiled in one visual studio, like in VS 2010, that the same code could possibly give an error when compiled in VS 2013, due to certain changes in keyword, data format, etc., with the VS upgrade
VLSI TEST ENGINEER
Tessolve Services Pvt. Ltd.Semiconductors, 1001-5000 employees
MindManager
- No support for team-based project files. Multiple people can only edit simultaneously during pre-scheduled meetings.
- A project file can be opened by 2 users at the same time, but when they try to save, a conflict is generated and the project file is duplicated with unmergeable changes.
- Published projects should have some kind of queue on save to ask the owner if they want to also update their changes on the published version.
Senior Systems Analyst
Shorefast FoundationNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Azure DevOps Services
Azure DevOps Services 10.0
Based on 3 answers
I don't think our organization will stray from using VSTS/TFS as we are now looking to upgrade to the 2012 version. Since our business is software development and we want to meet the requirements of CMMI to deliver consistent and high quality software, this SDLC management tool is here to stay. In addition, our company uses a lot of Microsoft products, such as Office 365, Asp.net, etc, and since VSTS/TFS has proved itself invaluable to our own processes and is within the Microsoft family of products, we will continue to use VSTS/TFS for a long, long time.
Business Analyst
InnovaSystems International, LLCComputer Software, 201-500 employees
MindManager
MindManager 9.1
Based on 20 answers
I feel the main issues of the old Mindjet seem to be gone with the
Corel purchase. With the huge advance of sharing via browser HTML even 1
user can affect many. And, actually, using MM kind of forced my rigid
brain to rethink how I categorize and classify information/projects.
TheCorel purchase. With the huge advance of sharing via browser HTML even 1
user can affect many. And, actually, using MM kind of forced my rigid
brain to rethink how I categorize and classify information/projects.
idea of paying $69USD for an annual cost is more than fair and a great
model for Corel/Mindjet to keep rolling out improvements!
Capital Markets, 11-50 employees
Usability
Azure DevOps Services
Azure DevOps Services 7.7
Based on 5 answers
Azure DevOps is a powerful, complex cloud application. As such there are a number of things it does great and something where there is room for improvement. One of those areas would be in usability. In my opinion it relies too much on search. There is no easy way to view all projects or to group them in a logical way. You need to search for everything.
Technical Lead
Newell RubbermaidConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees
MindManager
MindManager 8.5
Based on 13 answers
MindManager is very intuitive. The user interface is not cluttered and the ribbon icons are easy to understand. Several excellent "how-to" videos are available on the MindManager site as well as on YouTube. MindManager starts quickly and the user interface is very responsive. Launching other programs from MindManager such as Excel is very fast and issue free. The browsing feature is lightning fast. The drag-and-drop capability is also very fast and reliable.
Cloud Architect
Nations IDGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees
Reliability and Availability
Azure DevOps Services
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
MindManager
MindManager 9.1
Based on 6 answers
Never had any errors.

Verified User
Analyst in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesPerformance
Azure DevOps Services
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
MindManager
MindManager 9.1
Based on 4 answers
No issues even with large maps and held in the cloud.
Capital Markets, 11-50 employees
Support Rating
Azure DevOps Services
Azure DevOps Services 8.7
Based on 19 answers
When we've had issues, both Microsoft support and the user community have been very responsive. DevOps has an active developer community and frankly, you can find most of your questions already asked and answered there. Microsoft also does a better job than most software vendors I've worked with creating detailed and frequently updated documentation.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Architecture & Planning Company, 1001-5000 employeesMindManager
MindManager 8.0
Based on 17 answers
I have called technical support a few times. During the COVID Crisis, I called a few times repeatedly due to a rush request. The technical support guy called me back in minutes. He somehow knew that I had called repeatedly and wanted to make sure my issue was resolved immediately
Owner / President
The Innovation MachineMechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 1-10 employees
Online Training
Azure DevOps Services
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
MindManager
MindManager 6.4
Based on 1 answer
The videos are not well categorized...I had to do a bit of digging to get what I wanted and many videos on older versions. If Mindjet was to improve the titles used that would help.
Capital Markets, 11-50 employees
Implementation Rating
Azure DevOps Services
Azure DevOps Services 10.0
Based on 2 answers
Was not part of the process.

Verified User
Analyst in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesMindManager
MindManager 9.1
Based on 6 answers
Not applicable
BUSINESS ANALYST
ACIM LLCInformation Services, 1-10 employees
Alternatives Considered
Azure DevOps Services
VSTS is great if you final source system is Microsoft based. Everything work well together and once you learned how use VSTS it isn't difficult to build more build systems. If your staff are used to the methods Microsoft uses, their time learning VSTS won't be as difficult as staff that do not know the Microsoft way of doing things. If, however, you are going to build non-Microsoft bases applications, such as Java, Ruby or even Python, Jenkins is probably a better choice.
Sr. Systems and Security Architect
Mathematica Policy ResearchResearch, 1001-5000 employees
MindManager
MM thinks as I think. We share the same logic. I am also very deeply proficient on MM - which makes the thought of switching to another approach less than appealing.I thought Google might be the answer because I am "full Google" on just about everything else that I do for both work, writing, and pleasure... but they have yet to come even close to MM in overall functionality.
VP Marketing, Principal
The Fox Island GroupWriting and Editing, 1-10 employees
Scalability
Azure DevOps Services
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
MindManager
MindManager 9.1
Based on 2 answers
Easy to use for multiple purposes.

Verified User
Analyst in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesReturn on Investment
Azure DevOps Services
- Via acquisition, we had some Atlassian tools including Jira, bitbucket, and confluence licenses. Total cost for 25 users was close to $5000. Migrating the team to VSTS would net savings of close to $2500.
- If you're running TFS, you can save costs on: server licenses (you'll have at least 2 - one TFS, one build server). Save time on maintenance and upgrades of TFS.
Digital Solutions Architect
DynacareHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees
MindManager
- I definitely see it as a timesaver, since you can create maps/items on the fly, without a whole lot of setup at the beginning of a project.
- since there are a number of people that tend to be visual thinkers, MindManager really helps users to see the big picture, without getting too caught up in all the details.
- MindManager seems to be a really easy platform to learn, whereas other Project Management platforms have a steep learning curve, and require users to really get in-depth training to take full advantage of the software.

Verified User
Supervisor in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employeesScreenshots
Azure DevOps Services
—Pricing Details
Azure DevOps Services
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Azure DevOps Services Editions & Modules
Edition
Basic Plan | $61 |
---|---|
Basic + Test Plan | $522 |
Azure Artifacts | $23 |
Azure Pipelines - Microsoft Hosted | $404 |
Azure Pipelines - Self-Hosted | $155 |
- per user per month (first 5 users free)
- per user per month
- per GB (first 2GB free)
- per parallel job (1,800 minutes free with 1 free parallel job)
- per extra parallel job (1 free parallel job with unlimited minutes)
Additional Pricing Details
—MindManager
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
MindManager Editions & Modules
Edition
One-Time Cost | $3491 |
---|---|
Annual Subscription | $1692 |
Organizations | Contact sales team |
- per perpetual license
- per year