Item: Azure DevOps Server
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure DevOps Server is a collaborative project management tool we used in one of our projects while working from home to collaborate among team members, it helped us to track bugs, commit codes, create user story, and various forms of reports related to project. It allows integration with our existing IDEs, version control like Git, setup the CI/CD pipelines for code testing, release and deployments.
Azure DevOps Server was very helpful to our teams while we started working remotely, helped in increasing the productivity and prototyping the projects for release without any delay. Best part of using this tool is reporting, we were able to create Kanbans dashboards for integrated reports.

Pros and Cons

Reporting Integration- Azure boards provides Kanban and other dashboard, their templates for easy management of project.
Project Pipeline- easy integration and development of CI/CD pipelines, helped in testing, releasing project artifacts.
Version Control- Integration with Git and code IDE made it easy to share, review our code, fix bugs and do testing.

Azure test plans can be improved to be more automated, existing generic templates can be added to create more test plan in different languages.

Most Important Features

Version Control- Able to Integrate with Git and Bitbucket projects.
Azure Boards- For summarising and creating different reports of the projects, can include Kanban dashboard.
CI/CD testing and release pipeline- Azure artifacts.

Return on Investment

Increased productivity in our team members.
Helped in early prototyping and release versions for our projects.
Easy tracking of bugs, user stories and reviewing code etc.

Alternatives Considered

GitLab

Better bug and user story tracking feature.
Easy integration with multiple version controls and code repo like- GitHub and Bitbucket.
Managing ticket lifecycle is quite good, able to easily move through different stages.
Test plans is much better than that of alternative, was sufficient for our scenarios.
Visualisation of user and projects sprint give good insight to the project status, its timeline.

Key Insights

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Azure DevOps Server go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Azure DevOps Server again?

Yes

Other Software Used

GitHub, Bitbucket, Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Likelihood to Recommend

In our case it was best suited when we started working remotely, we were able to track everything in out projects easily, able to share our codes, give reviews for the codes and also create integration and deployment CI/CD plans for the release and testing.
It helped our team members with the productivity, early prototyping and release. Create summarised reports of different aspect of our projects.
Even in other scenarios it is one of the best tools to use for collaboration and project management. I haven't found any specific scenario where it is not appropriate.

Azure DevOps Server- A Collaborative tool for productivity

Overall Satisfaction with Azure DevOps Server