Azure DevOps Server

Score8.3 out of 10

294 Reviews and Ratings

What is Azure DevOps Server?

AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server) for each machine running Azure DevOps Server.

Categories & Use Cases

Ricardo Noronha View profile

Hardware Design in Engineering at Autotrac (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure DevOps Server makes integration between different areas with the agile process, in my case I use Kanban to guide a hardware design team and Azure lets me create several features for each part of our PCB design process, and I can manage how each person on the team is going on, review cases are much easier. I can link all tasks from the first requirement to the reports from the qualification tests. Each project has an epic structure that lets us navigate over all projects and create multiple teams in the same workspace. I can bring a lot of metrics showing who is delaying, effort by project, and much more info that helps my board to understand if the critical tasks are being managed as requested.

Pros

multiple team management
one server for all types of team connected
version control is easy
scripts to automate simple tasks

Cons

integration with CADs for hardware design
improve the link management for child/related/parent work items
template for several common work flow

Return on Investment

fast feature creation and backlog management
little hard to organize the history of all work items
good for metrics of team and project development

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Admin Tools for Jira

Other Software Used

Altium 365, Microsoft Project

Anubhav Singhal View profile

Senior SQA Engineer in Professional Services at IHS Markit (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used for complete ci/cd process, used to create pipelines and manage project with ado board.

Pros

Continuous integration
Continuous development
Project management

Cons

Ease of usage
More integration with open source
Navigation

Most Important Features

Pipelines
Repos
Boards

Return on Investment

Increase productivity
Increase process automation
Work assignment

Alternatives Considered

Jenkins and GitLab

Other Software Used

Jira Software, GitLab, SonarCloud

Brianne Netel

DesignOps Associate at Pfizer (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We leverage Azure DevOps to manage the Agile backlog of one of our biggest internal platforms. The main functionality is leveraged to track stories and move things along from requirement drafting, to design and right through the development and QA. Some other functionality that is leveraged is the calendar to ensure that we are capturing the agile team's OOOs since most of us are from various orgs/teams throughout the enterprise.

Pros

Organizes tasks with space for all the added context one would need (requirements, design links, etc.)
Ability to capture a backlog of items to better visualize a roadmap to help with planning/prioritizing.
Streamlines the work being done across a large project team with various specialists.
Intuitive to use with minimal learning curve for those new to the tool.

Cons

It is very utilitarian looking, maybe consider a more personable UI aesthetic

Most Important Features

Story tracking to see the status of any given task
Calendar for tracking OOO's
Backlog to understand the pipeline
The various fields within any given ticket that allows one to capture critical details

Return on Investment

It has streamlined the pipeline and project management for our agile effort.
It has helped our agile team get organized since that is a new methodology being leveraged within the Enterprise.
The calendar has improved visibility into different OOOs across the project team since we all come from different departments across the larger organization.

Alternatives Considered

Jira Software

Other Software Used

Figma, Miro, Webex Meetings

Melissa Bryant View profile

Advertising Specialist in Marketing at Horizon Media (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The firm as a whole makes use of Azure DevOps Server for project management, with its efficient capability to prioritize and approve project needs. Our IT team uses this top-notch application to streamline project management tasks like code versioning and test script administration and to make sure all of our requirements are met through thorough testing.

Pros

Simple tracking of progress throughout the project.
Perform project management duties with superior ability to set priorities and approve work.
In order to ensure that all of the project's requirements are met, a thorough test plan is necessary.

Cons

It doesn't work well with tools from other companies.
Improvements can be made to the user interface to make it more natural to use.
I also think capacity planning may use some fine-tuning.

Most Important Features

Verify that the needs of the project do not exceed its remit.
Integration with external systems is seamless, facilitating monitoring and visibility.
Changes in project specifications can be easily handled.

Return on Investment

Easy-to-use testing methods and efficient project management.
In-the-moment data collection and processing, including a high-quality means of teamwork.
It's simple to keep tabs on all of a project's prerequisites.

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Confluence

Other Software Used

Atlassian Confluence, Jira Software, AWS Backup, GitHub, Smartsheet

Christopher Sawyer View profile

Programmer Analyst in Information Technology at TCDRS (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

All-in-one product (don't need a bunch of separate connected products)
Integrates easily with other Microsoft products
Can use git or its own version control with less steep learning curve
More stable than Atlassian products

Cons

No clear-cut way to track items in a release, especially if they are not code change related
Agile boards still lag behind Jira in terms of functionality
Bamboo and Confluence have nice features over DevOps Build and Sharepoint

Most Important Features

Agile boards
Build and Deploy
Test Center

Return on Investment

Improved team collaboration
Work transparency and reporting
Tracking our work so we know where we are current project and can forecast future projects

Alternatives Considered

Bamboo, Jira Software and Atlassian Confluence

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, MS SharePoint, Visual Studio IDE