Azure DevOps Server (formerly TMS) Reviews

ROI increase.

Prevents the need for additional management.

Helps to meet deadlines.

Integrations

Team Management

Scheduling

Collaboration

It used to be a half-day downtime for our entire team when an application needed to be deployed to a new environment. Now it takes 10 minutes.

While its agile project management is mediocre, Azure DevOps makes the tracking and management of customer support tickets a breeze.

Azure DevOps is so much more intuitive than Git. It's effortless to move your code from one project to another and track changes made from in-shore and off-shore teams.

Allows enforcement of code reviews before new code ever becomes merged into a release branch. This has prevented some seriously detrimental code from progressing through the development process.

It is integrated into our build server which is also integrated into Octopus deploys. It allows for a much more seamless deployment process.

Helped to achieve better code management

Helped to get rid of a separate bug management tool

Helped to build the devops pipeline within it hence removing need for separate devops tool

It takes time to administer. My previous employer had a Configuration Manager employed who spent lots of his time working with TFS. Salary costs is a negative impact.

Having an integrated solution in this arena helps code get generated faster.

It improves our development cycle.

It helps us debug more efficiently.

It saves us money in the long run.

The reporting gave valuable actionable insights which definitely improved the ROI in a positive way.

The cost compared to its peers is kept low.

Since I am more on the user side, I haven't had the opportunity to gain insights on the negative ROI.

Since I am more on the user side, I haven't had the opportunity to gain insights on the negative ROI.

Saves a lot of time while coding with colleagues.

Easy rollback.

Positive ROI for Microsoft Product Suits since TFS easily integrates with other Microsoft Product lines.

ROI is negative where you find it difficult and spent more time to integrate with Non-Microsoft product lines.

TFS server could have negative ROI if the number of users is really limited. However, for larger organizations, it is worth investing in TFS.

There has been a positive impact on our overall business objectives. We have saved a huge amount of time consolidating user stories and bugs into one central location.

The system has increased visibility into our processes which has additionally had a positive impact on our business objectives. It has increased confidence in the process and allowed us to have more flexibility around the project.

Low cost storage of code

Integration with Microsoft products

High time costs to set up server, to upgrade, and to merge code

Team Foundation Server saves us a lot of Time working together on the same code and reviewing changes of colleagues. We save a lot of time here.

Even with very small projects we use Team Foundation Server. Here it saves the time of backing up the source code without adding any overhead.

I use it also for my private and learning projects.

Visual Studio with Team foundation server is the best: This is the best combination to use as both are Microsoft products and they are very compatible. The code can be easily checked in or checked out from the Visual Studio and all the TFS Items like Bugs, Tasks, Change requests can be accessed directly from Visual Studio and also from the web browser.

Comparision Can be still improved: Comparision of the SQL server integration Services packages from Visual Studio is poor as it does not only compare the code but also compares the resizing and other unnecessary things. This can be improved such that one should be able to exclude the few unwanted things in comparison.

No time loss

No data loss

Easy rollback deployment

New developers ramp up really quickly because TFS is so ubiquitous in the industry.

Even if a new employee doesn't already know TFS, it's intuitive enough to learn without much ramp up.

The integrated CI server functionality makes it so we can consolidate what would normally be multiple, on-prem products into one managed solution.

Difficult to put an ROI for TFS, however it has enabled us to become a more agile development team which in turn allows us to better service our customers

It has brought together testing and development under one roof. Previously we managed two seperate products, one for testing and one for development. This means one less license to worry about, and only one product to host and administer.

Due to the above, we have found that efficiency of testing has got a lot better as testing has become a lot more integrated into our development process.

Having it setup with RM makes releases better.

It has been proven to be difficult for remote employees if they lose or have a bad connection to it.

Automated testing saved 2 million a year over manual costs.

Automated testing ensured quality of code builds if the test did not pass the build did not go forward wasting both development and test time.

Burn down provide a visual of sprint status in real time.

A positive impact of TFS is that it has helped keep people accountable. There are less mistakes made as they can be audited easily, and people double-check their answers rather than confirming something they don't know the answer to.

A negative impact is that we have one person who manages the configurations within TFS. Anytime I need a change to template or default creation settings, I need to email them and get on their schedule. This causes a delay for changes I'd like to see at times.

TFS is well used and well respected within the community, and when working with other companies, they tend to like that we are using TFS over other bug defect trackers.

Time to completion for projects has significantly gone down by 15% and that number changes as more people are trained and are comfortable with TFS.

Change Management and Approvals are easier to access.

More projects are implementing SCRUM methodologies for applications

Team Foundation Server significantly improved efficiency by allowing everything to be integrated which allows the global teams to work together on items.

We can provide better support to our clients because our support teams can use Team Foundation Server to log problems and to check on existing issues.

Fixing issues in development is easier to overcome since the history tracking is so thorough and detailed.