A good alternative to MS Teams for your Dev Ops Group
November 03, 2025

A good alternative to MS Teams for your Dev Ops Group

Jeremy Herman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Slack

Slack is mainly used by our coding team and also the Dev Ops side of the house. We recently developed VoIP software as well as a program called Tadpole to help with the process for setting up a printer. It helps our Team share links to Git Repos and also provides a shareable history so that people can track changes to the software we are producing.

Pros

  • Helps the team in America stay in contact with the team in India.
  • Easily share links to Googe Drive, Microsoft One Drive, or Dropbox
  • Conversations about coding are categorized and archived for later review.

Cons

  • Some coders feel like it monopolizes their attention.
  • Can create confusion if some of your team is also using Teams and they don't update Slack.
  • Trouble with formatting tables that are being imported into Powerpoint presentations.
  • Projects are getting completed more quickly. In some cases we can ship completed code 2 weeks faster than expected.
  • We have noticed a drop in code conflicts when developers are both using the platform.
  • Devs that are more accustomed to using Slack enjoy the freedom to move away from Microsoft Teams.
Slack has good usability. Devs that are not familiar with the platform are able to jump into conversations and start sharing code and links within just minutes. Non developers are also able to understand the layout such as the Project Managers that are keeping the projects on track. We have not seen any tickets where employees are having trouble understanding Slack.
Teams and Slack both have Pros and Cons. We use both for communicating. Microsoft Teams is good from the prospective that you can set up Distribution Groups and Private Groups for sharing out links from One Drive and Sharepoint. The integration is built in so that all the Microsoft apps run natively with each other. Slack benefits from organizing different topics in channels that are all under one overarching project. These channels are easily created or destroyed depending on the coding issue at hand.

Do you think Slack delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Slack's feature set?

Yes

Did Slack live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Slack go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Slack again?

Yes

Slack is great for tracking commits to new coding projects. You can take parts of code that still need to be implemented later and easily search through the history of comments if there is something that goes wrong with a code commitment. It can be difficult for people that only like Teams to adjust to a new platform if you are using both to communicate.

Slack Feature Ratings

Project Management
8.7
Task Management
7
Scheduling
9
Workflow Automation
6
Mobile Access
10
Search
10
Visual planning tools
10
Communication
9.0
Chat
8
Notifications
7
Discussions
10
Surveys
10
Internal knowledgebase
10
File Sharing & Management
9.9
Versioning
10
Video files
9
Audio files
10
Document collaboration
10
Access control
10
Advanced security features
10
Device sync
10

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