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Manage and automate Software Development End2End.
June 11, 2022

Manage and automate Software Development End2End.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Azure DevOps Server

Managing software development across several phases can be extremely difficult due two it’s complexity. DevOps and CI/CD can help to control this complexity. However, these methodologies need software solutions that suit this agile approach. In this case Microsoft DevOps is the best suite available at the moment. We use Microsoft DevOps end to end to manage the development of a cross-platform mobile application. As said we use the suite end to end. Starting with „Azure Boards“ to derive, document, and manage backlogs; „Azure Repos“ to manage repositories and changes/change requests; ending with automating testing and pipelines with „Azures Testing“ and „Azure Pipeline“. Integration and extensibility features are used for productivity purposes as well. In this way, Azure DevOps brings together all levels of information at code in one single tool. Especially the automation options in the pipeline Tier helped us to automate delivery processes for both platforms (iOS & Android).
  • Integration and Extensibility Features.
  • Pipeline automations.
  • Configuration and flow of change requests workflows.
  • Configuration of Boards (backlogs).
  • Flexibility and ease of use of dashboards.
  • Change logs of items.
  • Expand automation options for iOS pipeline (include further triggers).
  • Mass handling of backlog items could be improved.
  • Azure Boards: transparent planning and task distribution.
  • Azure Repro: Extensive repository features, way better than GitHub.
  • Azure Pipeline: Automated cross-platform delivery.
  • Dashboards: amazingly powerful and easy to use; easy queries; shared queries.
  • More transparency over backlog.
  • Transparency over open effort via custom dashboards.
  • Automation of low-impact commits.
  • More efficient review of high-impact commits.
In my opinion, DevOps covers the development process end to end way better than Jira or GitHub. Both competitors are nice in their specific fields but DevOps provides a more comprehensive package in my opinion. It is still crazy to see that the whole suite can be used for free. The productivity increase we realized with DevOps is worth real money!

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

Yes

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

Yes

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

Yes

Did implementation of Azure DevOps Server go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Azure DevOps Server again?

Yes

The repro Feature “Azure Repros” was especially valuable in our use case as it was very easy to orchestrate the development of several developers via change requests. In this way, tasks/bugs execution was easy to plan and assign via boards and dashboards, and commits were documented in relation to planning objects and reviewed via the four-eye principle. Senior developers were able to oversee and review junior developers' work easily.