Azure DevOps Server

Formerly Team Foundation Server

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.

TFS makes it easy for project management and that saves a ton of effort on keeping track of things.

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.

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.

Increased ROI by effectively communicating status

Improved accountability

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.

Easier reporting/visibility over project status

It stores source code in Git

Using TFS version control resulted in corrupted code

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

Well supported for Agile Scrum methodology of project execution.

Better report on each step of SDLC.

And las but not the least increased employee efficiency.

The biggest impact of TFS is both the breadth and depth visibility of projects. It's integrated capabilities with Visual Studio and SharePoint allows for management, customers, stakeholders and developers alike to have a "place" within the process, understand the state of projects and provide feedback.

Team Foundation Server has allowed us to increase employee efficiency because it provides a framework for our Scrum development process.

Team Foundation Server has made it easier to translate the business requirements into technical work definitions.

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.