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Azure DevOps Server
Formerly Team Foundation 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)…

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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…

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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.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.7.

The most common users of Azure DevOps Server are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Vinicius Lima | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TFS is well suited to developers and teams that work with Microsoft technologies and products. For other scenarios, alternatives like Git can deliver more powerful and reliable features. Also, developing software in branches is very difficult, as well as merging code. These tasks needs to be carefully planned to avoid broken code and headaches in your company.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TFS is very good when working on a large project with a lot of moving pieces. When you have many BAs involved and a lot of user stories, it can be extremely useful to consolidate information. If you are not working on a large project with many users and developers, it may be excessive. However, in general, the tool is extremely helpful when implemented correctly.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Team Foundation Server is specifically very useful for bigger teams which have a lot of developers and organizations with a lot of parallel team working on similar projects. It helps to keep track and manage the overall project well. I don't think of an alternative which is as powerful as TFS
Lavanya Elluri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Team Foundation Server is a very a very good tool when you are using with Visual Studio. It's very easy to check in/check out the code to the Team Foundation Server. One can easily check the Task, Bugs and any change request items very easily from the Visual Studio. One can also check this items directly on the web browser as well.
Luca Campanelli | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
if you are a development company or you work in a company with continuous developments it is certainly advisable to create a server dedicated to Team Foundation Server, surely you will have fewer problems in the deployment phase and you can always keep all the versioning of your software or your objects under control. Also, rollback in emergencies can be easily managed without losing too much time.
Brian Willis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Team Foundation Server (TFS) is suited for anyone working in .NET. It's not appropriate otherwise. It's really as simple as that I think.

You could use some other source control with .NET but it integrates so well with the rest of the Microsoft family and is so reasonably priced, there'd be no need to.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you're JUST doing project management, you probably don't need it - too powerful. If you're doing code and development, it's more useful than something that is basically just an issue tracker/kanban board/wiki.
Rich Mephan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TFS is a really good tool for managing small to medium-sized development teams. The ability to customize it to suit your own processes means it should be suitable for any business, though I have to confess I do not have any experience of using it within a large enterprise sized development team split across disparate locations.That said we do have developers spread across the UK and they manage to work remotely with no problems at all.
Peter Anderson BEng MCSA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For a software development team, Team Foundation Server definitely ticks a lot of boxes. We use the Scrum methodology and Team Foundation Server enables us to manage current sprints and plan for future sprints. Even for 'pet projects' that some developers have, Team Foundation Server is a useful tool to submit their code for archiving and creating tasks to work on those projects.
October 26, 2017

Is TFS the right tool?

Erik Sheafer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think if you work in a Microsoft exclusive environment, this is the tool for you. If you are in an arena where you might have C#, Java, or Python other tools might be better suited to your needs. TFS can be very costly but if it is instituted correctly with RM tools, it can be a wonderful thing. If you are a small shop use a free source control.
Marcus Felling | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TFS is especially well suited for .Net shops if they already have MSDN subscriptions; in that case it's pretty much free and a great all in one ALM suite. TFS now supports development of any tech stack, so it should also be evaluated by teams doing more than just .Net development.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[Team Foundation Server is well suited for] Agile - Kanban boards [make it] simple and easy to see progress. Shared queries allow for all to see information, centralizing communication. [It is also well suited for] Managing projects to preventing scope creep. Provides full tractability to ensure testing covers requirements, tree queries allow export of test coverage or lack there off. The tool provides collaboration between Development and QA with the trace data and log files gathered as a test case is being executed.
Erin Hinnen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TFS is well suited for a team looking for structured requirements, projects, test cases, bugs, user stories, etc. It works well for planning things out and coordinating with others to see the "bigger view". TFS is great in scenarios where paper trails and other auditable data is needed to keep people in check and accountable. The search and query functionality allows users to search for past issues that may have been resolved previously and have crept back, and can provide history and context surrounding project functionality/decisions. TFS might not work as well for a team truly looking for a scrum experience. Although my companies have both claimed scrum, they both planned out releases at least a few weeks in advance. If you're changing things on a daily basis it might not be as great of a tool.
Tiffany Seeman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think Team Foundation Server is well suited for companies looking to do web-based status reports for projects and I think it works for organizations looking to implement Agile Methodologies. It makes implementing SCRUM techniques into a project very easy as well as being user friendly. Accessing and shelving code is easy for coders to understand and use so that others can not make any changes to a piece of code unless it is checked in. It makes a whole project run smoother knowing what stage it is in and seeing where the issues are occurring by being able to access the status of each project over the web if you don't have the software downloaded to your PC.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think Team Foundation Server is the best solution when Microsoft development technologies are being used. Microsoft is focused on integration of their own technologies versus those of their competitors. This is just something to consider for the selection process. Also, it is important to consider all of the features that you require of a system. Team Foundation Server can do it all, but each module in itself may not be the best solution on the market.
Bill Starling | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is more suited for a larger corporation or development team as the cost of acquiring the software/hardware might be too large for a smaller company. Setting it up can also be hard for a small team if there is no experience with it. Finding experience can be hard because of this fact but the Team Foundation Server wizards are generally helpful and provide adequate help in setup and administration.
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