Item: Azure DevOps Services
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Azure DevOps for work tracking and our git remote repository. My immediate team of 8 use it exclusively. We host every project we have (15+) on it. It allows us to have all of our work tracked in one location. Since we are a Microsoft Data Platform shop, it integrates well into our other development tools.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Seamless integration into Microsoft development tools.
CI/CD built-in, very customizable.
Lots of marketplace items for integration into various non Microsoft tools.

Cons

It is not as customizable as JIRA. They are working to improve this. But this is the one area where it is lacking.

Return on Investment

Less bugs.
Quicker resolution of issues.

Alternatives Considered

JIRA Software

They are really close. Azure DevOps is better because of the deep integration with Microsoft technologies. JIRA is better on the customization side. However, Azure DevOps is really improving on that front. They are releasing new features every other week now. Azure DevOps also has CI/CD build process built into the application.

Support Rating

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

Key Insights

Do you think Azure DevOps Services delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Azure DevOps Services's feature set?

Yes

Did Azure DevOps Services live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Azure DevOps Services go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Azure DevOps Services again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

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!

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