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What is Azure DevOps Server?
AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server)…
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What is Azure DevOps Server?
AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server) for each machine running Azure DevOps Server.
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AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server) for each machine running Azure DevOps Server.
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The most common users of Azure DevOps Server are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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September 26, 2023
A great product for CI/CD
It is being used for complete ci/cd process, used to create pipelines and manage project with ado board.
- Continuous integration
- Continuous development
- Project management
- Ease of usage
- More integration with open source
- Navigation
June 30, 2022
Azure DevOps is a game change
We use Azure DevOps to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of our code. We use Boards to capture our backlog and manage the work through delivery, Pipelines for our code repository, and Pipelines for CI/CD.
- Azure Boards is fast to use once you have a good structure in place. You can create or modify each task type quickly. The consequence of that is that is it reduces your admin overhead so its a no-brainer to create lots of smaller tasks.
- Azure Repos is simple to set up compared to other on prem solutions that we have used. Most options come out of the box including user management.
- The Pipelines tool is very powerful, and you can quickly create your CI/CD pipelines. Simple to see the state of each pipeline at a glance.
- Azure Boards can be daunting to set up. There are a lot of different features and if you don't know what you are doing it's easy to overcomplicate things.
- If you have lots of similar Pipelines to create there is no way to template them, each one has to be created and managed separately. So if your target K8s cluster changes, you have to manually edit each Pipeline.
The firm as a whole makes use of Azure DevOps Server for project management, with its efficient capability to prioritize and approve project needs. Our IT team uses this top-notch application to streamline project management tasks like code versioning and test script administration and to make sure all of our requirements are met through thorough testing.
- Simple tracking of progress throughout the project.
- Perform project management duties with superior ability to set priorities and approve work.
- In order to ensure that all of the project's requirements are met, a thorough test plan is necessary.
- It doesn't work well with tools from other companies.
- Improvements can be made to the user interface to make it more natural to use.
- I also think capacity planning may use some fine-tuning.
We work according to Agile methodology and Azure DevOps Server (formerly known as TMS) helps us to track and follow the progress of our work efficiently. We use it for version control as well as to review backlog. As we are more of a Microsoft-based company, it helps us a lot since all Microsoft products can be integrated effortlessly with Azure DevOps Server which enhances user experience.
- You can integrate it effortlessly with almost all Microsoft products
- Supports Agile and can be used for version control
- Bug tracking
- Ease of use
- I feel that because it's a Microsoft product, it integrates better with other Microsoft products too. Since mine is more of a Microsoft-based company, it's not a problem for me, but for others, you might want to consider this before making any decision
- The user interface could have been better
- Agile boards can be better
Azure DevOps Server is a collaborative project management tool we used in one of our projects while working from home to collaborate among team members, it helped us to track bugs, commit codes, create user story, and various forms of reports related to project. It allows integration with our existing IDEs, version control like Git, setup the CI/CD pipelines for code testing, release and deployments.
Azure DevOps Server was very helpful to our teams while we started working remotely, helped in increasing the productivity and prototyping the projects for release without any delay. Best part of using this tool is reporting, we were able to create Kanbans dashboards for integrated reports.
Azure DevOps Server was very helpful to our teams while we started working remotely, helped in increasing the productivity and prototyping the projects for release without any delay. Best part of using this tool is reporting, we were able to create Kanbans dashboards for integrated reports.
- Reporting Integration- Azure boards provides Kanban and other dashboard, their templates for easy management of project.
- Project Pipeline- easy integration and development of CI/CD pipelines, helped in testing, releasing project artifacts.
- Version Control- Integration with Git and code IDE made it easy to share, review our code, fix bugs and do testing.
- Azure test plans can be improved to be more automated, existing generic templates can be added to create more test plan in different languages.
June 13, 2022
A non-developer's thoughts
I work with an agile development team and we use DevOps for capturing and managing user stories and bugs. User stories are categorised into Epics and Features with ease, and it's a very valuable tool for planning and resource management.
- Resource management
- Sprint planning
- Organising requirements
- Could use a more intuitive interface
- On-screen demo/tips would be helpful for new users
June 08, 2022
Engineering Based Toolset for Extreme Collaboration
One product to cover the most common engineering activities in tech irrespective of the domain. Whether the team is in medical tech, fintech, aerospace tech, or a business process outsourcing firm, this platform has all the common tools needed in an Agile workspace with extreme collaborations across DevOps, Product, and Engineering. This gives the best centralized toolset, especially if your organization is already a Microsoft-based firm.
- Version control
- Requirements definition
- Secrets library management
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Wiki Markdown customization
- Better Syntax Highlighter in Repository
- Improvements in Requirements Definition Customization
We use Azure DevOps to manage and store all our corporate source code and deploy our applications to a string of various environments from development to production. In addition, we use Azure DevOps on a daily basis to manage our agile-based projects. Azure DevOps is used to track and follow the progress of customer support tickets as well. Our business analysts use the Agile Project Management feature to log user stories.
- Azure DevOps easily handles our source code and works seamlessly with Visual Studio (our main development environment).
- Our business analysts use its features to document and assign user stories for Agile-based projects.
- Our deployment team uses Azure DevOps to push code from development to main to user acceptance and finally production.
- For managing Agile projects, web-based navigation is terrible. There's no easy drop-down menu system you have to hunt and peck around to try and find pages to manage your hours.
- Our management needs the ability to predict when development may finish a project. Azure DevOps fails here because it doesn't easily provide a feature to let you predict an end date and it doesn't easily provide you with a feature to export the data to Excel so you could plug-in a formula to calculate an end date.
- The menu options for code management are sparse. It would be great if they had a feature to let you simply drag and drop folder structures.
May 21, 2021
Azure DevOps for a SAFe based, SOC2 Type 2 audited, heterogenous cloud microservices SDLC / ALM
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We use Azure DevOps in our business unit as an end to end solution for our ALM / SDLC. We have several organizations with various projects, repos and pipelines. We are following Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) which is well served by Azure DevOps backlog module. We are happy that we could back trace a cloud release through the pipelines back to the work items in the backlog.
- End to end tracing of released artifacts
- Scaled Agile Framework implementation with Azure DevOps backlog
- Versatile and powerful pipelines as code
- Ability to automatically link automated tests executions to Test Cases
- A better file editor (like VS code) in the git repo UI
May 13, 2021
Good Agile Management Tool
The biggest and best use of Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server) is the gathering and management of user stories for development, coupled with the other elements of information sharing and the metrics it can provide. The ability to track bugs, and the fixes to those bugs, and generally track the evolution of your agile development group is a major plus. While primarily focused on the development organization, Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server) is used by the lines of business by product owners and their associates.
- User story management
- Integrations with other products
- Reporting
- It does not necessarily play very well with non-Microsoft stacks
- Upgrades have been cumbersome; however, with the cloud offering, that is mostly off the table as a major issue
- Some of the search functionality is unclear and difficult to use
- Could have more pre-built templates; it offers so much it can be challenging at times
April 14, 2021
Still TFS to Me
Our dev team uses [Azure DevOps Server] to receive requests for our site from all departments in the company. I have used it as a marketing user. It is being used across the entire organization. It helps to address the business problem of prioritizing the work that we need to be done on our website.
- Orginazation
- Notifications
- Complex nesting of projects
- So many options, getting the team on the same page
- Formatting
- Tricky for new users
January 28, 2021
TFS is an excellent tool to support the full ALM
TFS is used for ALM of all in house supportive software, development of our flagship product and clinical studies for our latest version. TFS acts as a central hub for requirements, code, tests and reports. It links these facets of the product life cycle together.
- Linking together all aspects of the application life cycle, from requirements to code to builds and test.
- Trace-ability of all application life cycle via reports and queries.
- Automated testing.
- Flexibility of source code management. Centralized or distributed.
- Upgrade paths could be handled better. Very difficult to upgrade with customization in place.
- Capacity planning could be improved.
- Dot Net framework 260 character path limit is ridiculous.
March 13, 2020
Azure DevOps Server: Used at our Org for IT Purposes!
Azure DevOps Server is being used across the organization as a defect/bug tracking system for IT projects similar to Jira. The business problems it addresses are mainly related to issue tracking and traceability. There is a multitude of IT deployments at our company, and hence, lots of QA/UAT testing. When defects are captured during these phases, they are logged in Azure DevOps Server and tracked.
- Organization
- Defect tracking
- Severity
- Escalation
- Issue/user traceability
- Easier interface.
- Less drop downs and tabs.
- Email notifications.
December 03, 2019
Happy User of Azure DevOps Server
I am currently using Azure DevOps Server with a client on a scrum project to build a business application. In the company, Azure DevOps Server is mostly used by our specific project but does have other users and different projects. It helps manage the scrum process and provides organization and clarity to a project with many moving parts and members.
- Organization of tasks per team member
- Statistics provider for data related to capacity and output
- Good UX/UI experience for clarity
- Copy/Paste functionality could be improved
- Ability to see all team members more clear visually
- Sort feature on columns could be better
October 04, 2019
Azure DevOps server is a great product
We use the Azure Dev Ops server throughout the IT department of our organization. It is utilized by Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, Developers, and QA. We have Git integration enabled and it has been an awesome experience with its integration to our source code. I especially love the built-in ability in the latest version to perform source code wide string searches. This makes it exceptionally easy to find code references and delve into new areas quickly. Aside from source control, it is our UI interface for all of our SCRUM project management needs. We create all of our tasks on the work items board and it makes it easy to see the progress of the overall team. Overall it's just been a great experience and I can't think of any complaints.
- Git integration has been fantastic.
- Provides a convenient UI for managing the SCRUM process.
- Built-in Code Review feature and completion policies.
- I wish I could default to a specific dashboard on load.
June 05, 2019
Take an advantage of Microsoft TFS for easy integration with other Microsoft family products
Dell Technologies uses Team Foundation Server for managing multiple projects across the North America region and rolling out in all other regions. If you use Visual Studio for development, TFS, or its online equivalent VSTS, you can have a fairly seamless end-to-end integration. Out of the box, it provides code management, testing, work hierarchy in agile formats, automated build, and deployment.
Dell manages source code, project reporting, engineering progress tracking and release management for agile software development. Microsoft TFS is also leveraged by the Product Management group to define and manage product requirements and managing the technical backlog. TFS really makes it easier to perform an end-to-end integration, reporting, tracking, code management, automated build, and deployment, etc.
- TFS makes it easier to build technical features and acceptance criteria that different team members of Product Manager, Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Release Management.
- It enables the product managers to review technical backlog, prioritize features and go to market that helps improve key performance indicators.
- It provides seamless integration with Microsoft products like SharePoint, IIS, Visual Studio that helps integrate and exchange data.
- TFS UI could improve like some of its major competitors with fewer options on the same UI page. TFS tries to offer too many options on the same UI.
- Development in branches is hard to achieve and TFS has a room for improvement.
- Integration with non-Microsoft is difficult. TFS could provide easier integration with other product lines to improve acceptability.
December 17, 2018
Code versioning tool with room for improvement
We use Team Foundation Server in the Information Systems Department in our company. All developers have access to Team Foundation Server to do code versioning. We use it integrated with Visual Studio to check-in and check-out our projects' code. We also use the web interface to navigate between code versions and to manually download code when necessary.
- Integration with Microsoft products, like SharePoint, IIS, Visual Studio
- Users are able to access via desktop client, web browser and through Visual Studio
- Code version control
- Bad UX and UI in the web interface
- Merging code is a very hard task
- Development in branches is also hard to achieve
- Not so easy to upgrade server version
December 03, 2018
Great system for consolidating work and information
We are currently managing a large project and we use TFS to manage bugs, code and releases. It is only being used by the technical team but others are coordinating with us to make sure their bugs make it into the system. As well, we are using data from the system to routinely give updates to management on the status of the project as well as any concerns or risks.
- The consolidation of issues is extremely useful for us. Having one place where all bugs are entered has helped our business process immensely.
- Being able to query data regarding user stories, bugs and code is extremely helpful. As well, using the visual tools built into the system can help with messaging regarding the status of a project.
- Being able to monitor code deployments is extremely helpful. Since we are managing multiple environments, this tool makes it easy to see what is happening where.
- Searching through code can be somewhat cumbersome. It would be nice if there was a way to do general searches in certain areas of the system.
- Without proper training, the system can be confusing to navigate. This issue can be prevented with good training but it is something to be aware of.
- Navigation can be clunky at times depending on where you are in the system. For power users, this is not a huge deal but it is a tad bit annoying.
April 16, 2018
I like to work with Team Foundation Server
We use Team Foundation Server as Source Control Managment System and for automated Builds and Tests. We don't use the WorkItem System of Team Foundation Server. We Used it a couple of years ago, but it was to complicated. Right now we just use Trello with a Scrum AddOn for Task and Backlog Planning. Right now only our Developers are using Team Foundation Server.
- I like the Team Foundation Source Control Management much more compared to other Systems like GIT, because:
- - Perfect Integration into Visual Studio
- - Easy and direct checkout/check-in
- - Perfect branching and merging
- - Workflow Support with autmated Reminders
- The Build System is just great. Since Version 2017 its very easy to integrate self made tools into the build process.
- Easy Managament of Users and User Rights.
- Team Foundation Server could be improved in the Task and Backlog Managment for smaller Teams. E.G.: It's hard to quickly write down Tasks during a meeting because you have to fill in lots of Fields per WorkItem. It is hard to push the Items around.
December 28, 2017
TFS is useful for big projects... as long as you know it already
We used TFS in conjunction with a SharePoint upgrade to roll out Agile/Scrum. The key thing was traceability between MS products (linking). There were multiple project teams and a scrum of scrums was used. Adoption rate was decent, but it was tough to cut the cord on share folders.
- Traceability between MS Suite
- Clear what's a Bug, User Story, Feature, Epic
- Linking test cases
- Bad use of real estate is it's No. 1 failing, why all the white space?
- Too much functionality makes it difficult for new users to jump onboard - it's daunting at first
- Configuring dashboards is easy, but not necessarily what you want to show to upper management - needs some tweaking
December 01, 2017
TFS - The complete Development Tool
Team Foundation Server (TFS) is used by the development and test teams at Peppermint Technology. It is used for management of our source code and we also take advantage of the automated build functionality. We also use it for storing all of our release user stories, tracking enhancements and bugs as well as taking advantage of the project management tools to support our agile development process.
- Work Item tracking - The ability to define the flow of your work items to match your development/test process is really valuable
- Version Control - The ability to easily track changes between every checked in version of source code can be a life saver
- Project Management - The project management dashboards showing things like burndown enables us to easily track whether we are on target for a release
- Integration between our help desk system and TFS was possible but not as easy as I would expect considering both are Microsoft products
- Advanced reporting for dashboards could be made easier
October 26, 2017
Is TFS the right tool?
We are using TFS in our software division as a source control for code and DB objects. It allows us most importantly to keep a history of our code. Secondly, we can do deploys from this environment out to our many environments.
- TFS has an excellent interactive UI for all users to make source control easy to use.
- TFS has the backing of a major company, Microsoft. Updates and the way it is used gets regular updates.
- TFS integrates into Visual Studio.
- TFS has many tools for many different areas in the development life cycle.
- There is no real ability to work offline. You need to be actively connected to it in order to see history.
- Having many hands in the same project/file can cause conflicts that can be hard to resolve.
- having a "master" branch is difficult in TFS, it can be done but it is slow and cumbersome and not an intuitive process.
October 09, 2017
TFS - A Truly Functional System
We use Team Foundation Server (TFS) to track the development and delivery of tools we implement across business units.
- Automatic generation of burn down chart
- Easy to link user stories and tasks across
- Easy to move tasks across user stories
- Easy to move user stories across sprints
- There are issues encountered when uploading more than one attachment to a task. One needs to refresh first then save.
- The Admin function where you add iterations isn’t very user-friendly.
April 13, 2017
TFS = meh
We use team foundation server for source control.
- Project management
- Scrum
- Integration with visual studio
- Not a user friendly implementation of Git
- TFS version control is not widely used in favor of Git
April 05, 2017
TFS - The all in one ALM suite
Team Foundation Server (TFS) is used as an Application Management Lifecycle suite by PMO, Software Development, and Information Technology. TFS ensures that software initiatives drive overall business value.
- Work Item management.
- Build automation - enables Continuous Integration out of the box, cross-platform, easy to use.
- Code repositories - Hosts Git and TFVC repositories, provides excellent pull request experience for Git users.
- RESTful API - Provides the ability to script/automate just about anything.
- Visual Studio Team Services just about solves all of the criticisms I had of TFS.
- Release Management is overly complicated and changes constantly, hard to keep up. I use Octopus Deploy as an alternative.