TrustRadius Insights for Azure DevOps Server are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Efficient Task Management: Users have found Azure Boards fast and easy to use once a good structure is established, enabling quick creation or modification of task types. This reduces administrative overhead and facilitates the creation of numerous smaller tasks.
Simplified Setup Process: Reviewers appreciate Azure Repos for its simplicity in setup compared to other solutions, with most options readily available including user management. The out-of-the-box features streamline the onboarding process.
Powerful CI/CD Pipelines: The Pipelines tool within Azure stands out for its robust capabilities, allowing users to swiftly create pipelines, automate workflows, and easily track their progress effectively throughout the development cycle.
We use Team Foundation Server in the Information Systems Department in our company. All developers have access to Team Foundation Server to do code versioning. We use it integrated with Visual Studio to check-in and check-out our projects' code. We also use the web interface to navigate between code versions and to manually download code when necessary.
Pros
Integration with Microsoft products, like SharePoint, IIS, Visual Studio
Users are able to access via desktop client, web browser and through Visual Studio
Code version control
Cons
Bad UX and UI in the web interface
Merging code is a very hard task
Development in branches is also hard to achieve
Not so easy to upgrade server version
Likelihood to Recommend
TFS is well suited to developers and teams that work with Microsoft technologies and products. For other scenarios, alternatives like Git can deliver more powerful and reliable features. Also, developing software in branches is very difficult, as well as merging code. These tasks needs to be carefully planned to avoid broken code and headaches in your company.
We use Team Foundation Server as Source Control Managment System and for automated Builds and Tests. We don't use the WorkItem System of Team Foundation Server. We Used it a couple of years ago, but it was to complicated. Right now we just use Trello with a Scrum AddOn for Task and Backlog Planning. Right now only our Developers are using Team Foundation Server.
Pros
I like the Team Foundation Source Control Management much more compared to other Systems like GIT, because:
- Perfect Integration into Visual Studio
- Easy and direct checkout/check-in
- Perfect branching and merging
- Workflow Support with autmated Reminders
The Build System is just great. Since Version 2017 its very easy to integrate self made tools into the build process.
Easy Managament of Users and User Rights.
Cons
Team Foundation Server could be improved in the Task and Backlog Managment for smaller Teams. E.G.: It's hard to quickly write down Tasks during a meeting because you have to fill in lots of Fields per WorkItem. It is hard to push the Items around.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well, as said before. I like TFS for Source Control and automated Builds and Testing, but it could be improved in the area of Task Management.
We use Team Foundation Server as a hub for our in-house software development. It allows the development team to centralise software issues, feature requests and testing.
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Pros
Source code management - Team Foundation Server handles our source code and makes examining check-ins and changes nice and easy.
Project Management - Keeping the thousands of feature requests and bug submissions under control and in the right place is simple enough in TFS.
Administration - As with most Microsoft products, administration is not a difficult affair. Familiar interfaces and tight integration with other Microsoft products make most tasks intuitive.
Cons
Web interface - While the web interface is certainly very feature rich, there's just no substitute for a good desktop interface sometimes. The test side has Microsoft Test Manager as a desktop application counterpart, but almost everything else is done via the website. Some project management tasks could be simpler in a desktop environment.
Likelihood to Recommend
For a software development team, Team Foundation Server definitely ticks a lot of boxes. We use the Scrum methodology and Team Foundation Server enables us to manage current sprints and plan for future sprints. Even for 'pet projects' that some developers have, Team Foundation Server is a useful tool to submit their code for archiving and creating tasks to work on those projects.
Team Foundation Server (TFS) is being used by one of our departments. It's used for source code management and testing.
Pros
TFS code management is superior to other products we've used. Merges, check-ins, rollbacks, and version management techniques are much less error prone.
TFS tasking and traceability to code for tasks are some of its best features. Individual and team tasking can be applied to any methodology template a manager would want to use to manage a team.
TFS usability and unit testing suite is very flexible. Tests can be built all the way from the bottom unit test up to a functional level (understandable by functional people) and automatically executed for regression analysis.
Cons
Detailed custom changes to development methodology templates could be less difficult. The version we've worked with required development knowledge to make custom changes which should be doable by higher level management.
When using multiple TFS in a hierarchical/multi-enclave structure synchronization of code and functionality pushed from one to another can be a bit buggy at times.
Likelihood to Recommend
Team Foundation Server is an investment that pays off when managing a large project with large teams or multiple small projects.
