Azure DevOps Services

Formerly VSTS

- project management for Azure Board - code management for Azure repo - continuous integration and continuous delivery we have Azure pipelines - Artifact management we do have Azure Artifact - Test case management we have Azure test cases

Well Suited:
To Automate End to End Solution on any cloud.
Deploying End to End product with End to End Testing.
Maintaining all the Team's Efforts, bit much in Agile Methodology.

Less Appropriate:
Using Extra Software's when required is bit hard to Integrate.

As the other project tool management it is good because of the part of Azure family. Being a Microsoft tools it is quite compatible with the other azure products. Azure DevOps is very useful for the operational project to create all the user stories with the same task including various ad-hoc tasks

Azure DevOps is well suited as a single platform for all DevOps processes. It has everything for a product from the repository, work items board, pipelines, test plans and execution, artifacts, etc. It has also a range of project numbers and pipeline execution time for free each month to help new developers or startups. It is appropriate for teams without DevOps members and standards.

In our case, Azure DevOps services is well suited with applications hosted on Azure, such as D365, on-premises or custom Applications are hard to implement, different aspects won't work properly. We are still new to using it, maybe we haven't found the best way to apply it.

You can find the whole IT project lifecycle management in one place, including project management, code versioning, build and CI-CD pipelines, alongside with testing features and bug tracking.
You also have very useful out of the box dashboards that can also easily be customized, so that you can follow your project insights.
I also used - and recommend - another Microsoft product, built on Azure DevOps services, that is dedicated to Mobile Apps DevOps management, and that is really useful : AppCenter.

We have been using it for at least 5 years and it's rock-solid in its function and always adds new options and features. We started using it because of its free 5 user private repositories function. Now GitHub does the same (and it's also from Microsoft) but Azure DevOps Services offers more options and tools, so we will stick with this service.

[Azure DevOps Services (formerly VSTS)] is well suited for agile teams. It is a digital kanban for teams to access anywhere at any time. Especially during covid when most companies are still remote, it allows teams to fully perform and still be functional in operating within an agile methodology. It also gives visibility to teams capacity.

All Microsoft ecosystem products are well integrated and support easier build automation. Especially if you use TFS and Visual Studio, this is very well suited. They are flexible in bringing open-source software build supports and have a great marketplace with lots of Azure DevOps Services (formerly VSTS) extensions available.

The support team is well trained to help with troubleshooting issues and responds quickly but generally couldn't influence much to bring feature enhancement to their roadmap as we need.

It is well suited for managing software development. Code management, deployment, work item tracking. It allows remote teams to work together easily.

if you need a CI/CD pipeline for your company, especially if you have already been using Microsoft Software Development Suite, Azure DevOps Services (formerly VSTS) is a very good choice. You can build a release pipeline very easily and deploy your applications very quickly. They are also easy to maintain, especially if you are a big company.

It is well suited for large and distributed teams, developing cloud-native applications in a fast fail-fast approach. It will enable seamless development and support different platforms in integrations. It is of less value if the teams are small and located together and also in cases where the application runs on legacy software.

Azure DevOps is an excellent option for companies looking to streamline their development pipeline and code repository. It is highly collaborative and extremely easy to use. Our company is also using it within our IT Operations department to track infrastructure related work efforts as well and it has been very successful for that as well. Smaller companies may be able to use GitHub and other cheaper solutions for this type of work.

Azure DevOps provide a great resource when you want a "soup to nuts" approach to building software and tracking its deployments and updates. Using the project board to create stories and tasks, you can easily create code branches in which to do the work, which provides a great audit trail to when bugs were fixed or features completed. By using the pipelines, you can allow automation to deploy completed work, track its history, and easily roll back if needs be.

Primarily best for Microsoft dev houses (C#/.NET, TypeScript/JavaScript). Provides all the features you'd expect for an agile development workflow all in one package.

Azure DevOps, on the whole, is very easy to set up and use if you have any experience with Agile processes. The initial barriers to entry are extremely low as the first 5 users can leverage the tool for free. I found the overall feature/functionality easier to use and more approachable than similar tools. It is also leaps and bounds better than TFS if you haven't looked at it in a while. If you are already a git user, this is directly integrated with git repos, making the transition easy. The tool is also integrated with many other Microsoft products, so if you are a Microsoft-centric shop, you can leverage the broader ecosystem.

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.

If you are looking at Azure DevOps, you know why you need this. It is an inexpensive development process software. You need a place to host your remote git repo. You want to be able to track work and reference it later. You want to build out a full CI/CD pipeline based on commits. This is not a simple ticket tracking system. If that is all you want, go elsewhere!

The self help documentation is really good. But if you need more help than that, you will need to look for yourself.

No matter how many developers you have within the company, a robust source code control/DevOps pipeline is a must. When a new software development project is needed it can be initiated within DevOps by any team member/manager. The project can be tracked from start to finish with alerts and message ability directly in the product. The QA team can also monitor and provide feedback directly within the product.

We have rarely had to contact support as the product is very stable. The few times we have had to contact them they have been very responsive and helped us solve our issue right away.

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.

I have had to reach out to tech support a few times and I always received a quick response that answered my question. Everyone was very knowledgeable and courteous when they were trying to help me through my problems.

Although hosting Azure DevOps in-house with their on-prem version is manageable, it seems that Azure DevOps is better suited for development shops that are able to utilize the cloud version. That said, if your medium to large-sized company is like ours and need your ALM tools on-prem, be prepared to invest in multiple, full-time staff dedicated to administration if choosing Azure DevOps. For small companies, both cloud and on-prem versions are acceptable.

Microsoft Support can be hit or miss. Sometimes Support calls go smoothly, other times it seems the support rep isn't skilled enough to handle the issue and eventually, it gets passed off to someone more capable. This is understandable and the nature of support, but it seems time can be wasted unnecessarily as the initial support rep should pass it along to the right person more quickly. As mentioned earlier in the review, overall support for the on-prem version is waning.

Azure DevOps is well suited for any platform you are running. In my case, it was a great Chef cookbook pipeline solution that required no overhead or setup, cost nothing, and worked great. It works well with on-prem systems, systems in Azure, systems in AWS, and even systems in Google Cloud. Honestly, it's a really great multi-platform tool in my opinion.

While I did not interact with Azure DevOps support, there are so many online resources to get you acclimated that that alone merits a high rating. Additionally, the usability is so easy from the get go.

Azure DevOps is by far the leader out there. If you are a Microsoft shop there is no need to look elsewhere. This will handle everything you have with ease and then some. If you have older code then you may need to build some customizations to make it work but anything recent is seamless.

Azure DevOps has both excellent paid support from Microsoft and plentiful support online. Microsoft has plentiful sites that show step by step how to do many functions and features. The forums are well stocked with lots of useful information and there are many third-party sites that can easily be found to help out as well.

Azure DevOps allows you to start with DevOps methodology in a fast and easy way. The graphical interface is great and it is suitable to small and big teams. It really helps you to manage projects, tasks and teams.

The support is great. Attendants are very friendly and, so far, all requests and responses were satisfactory.

Azure DevOps is great for daily releases to QA and allowing developers to deploy to their own local environments if needed. Additionally, it's great for use in container fleet management if you want to have instances that can be brought up and torn upon demand based on the pipeline you are trying to use.

It's a great way to normalize DevOps wokflows, allowing you to replace lots of different tools and get the job done with a unified package. Testing support is second to none. If you're just focusing on development with version control, than Visual Studio packed with Git will probably cover all your needs.