Best Agile/DevOps management platform
Updated August 20, 2021

Best Agile/DevOps management platform

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

Overall Satisfaction with Azure DevOps Services (formerly VSTS)

We use Azure DevOps Services as our main DevOps platform for our IT projects.
The product usage changes from a project to another.
The most used capability is the agile planning tool, for Dev and non dev IT projects management.
We also use the GIT code versioning tools, along with DevOps build/deployment pipelines, in Microsoft technologies based Dev projects.
We are now planning trainings so that we can use the testing tools properly as well
  • makes Agile collaboration easy
  • DevOps made "easy" (after a learning time)
  • very clear and intuitive UI
  • very large set of connectors/integrations/extensions
  • Office 365 integration (Teams and Sharepoint)
  • plenty of training/documentation resources, and large community of users
  • the online documentation on Microsoft Developer Network should be clearer and easier to read, even for senior users
  • advanced configuration is hard to understand
  • product features changes can sometimes surprise you
  • Agile project management with dashboards, backlog, bug tracking and reporting (including the very intuitive Microsoft Power BI connector)
  • Continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
  • Get repositories seamlessly integrated with our development tools (visual studio and Eclipse)
  • Dev and Ops became friends and were at last glad to cooperate
  • PM methodology and tools has been unified across IT projects
  • Time-to-Market decreased (or at least code-to-production time decreased)
Beside all cloud benefits, the main advantage Azure DevOps Services compared to Azure DevOps Server is the easier remote access for third party team members, and always up to date software.
On the other hand, on prem deployment (Azure DevOps Server) makes complex access or deployment scenarios easier (when you have strong network/security constraints)

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

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.