VSTS - a polished project management tool
October 06, 2017

VSTS - a polished project management tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System was used to manage projects by my team for easy access to the health status of the entire project. It was used for issue tracking, version control, build status and statistics, code analysis and planning delivery.
  • It shows the health status of the entire software development pipeline with easy access to information.
  • Work items templates are customizable as needed.
  • The work items can be moved around from one type to another easily if needed.
  • 255 character path limitation.
  • Dependency on the internet means source control needs to be off when offline.
  • Agile support is not good and hard to maintain.
  • Our turnaround time is really fast in our SCRUM methodology and VSTS has really helped by helping us keep track of issues and link builds to source checkins easily.
  • JIRA, Hygieia and Trac
With more functionality added, JIRA has become slow, whereas VSTS is a pleasure to use. Trac and JIRA do not show the entire health status of the pipeline like VSTS. Hygieia is open source and trying to achieve what VSTS does but it is not as mature yet.
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We can create customizable dashboards and they are very easy to create. Work items are customizable too so that no relevant information is left out. We can also get Excel reports from it for the overall health status of the pipeline.