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Pros
Customizable Scrum Board: Users have appreciated the scrum-like board in Azure DevOps for its high level of customization options, enabling them to tailor it according to their specific project requirements and team preferences. This flexibility allows teams to adapt the board layout, columns, and cards based on their unique Agile methodologies.
Efficient Test Cases Management: Many users have found the Test Cases storage feature in Azure DevOps beneficial for efficiently managing testing processes within their projects and streamlining test case organization and execution. By centralizing test cases within the platform, teams can easily track testing progress, link tests to user stories or features, and ensure comprehensive test coverage.
Seamless CI/CD Pipelines: Users highly value Azure DevOps for its exceptional ease in creating build and deploy pipelines, strong GitHub integration, robust support for continuous integration and continuous deployment processes, contributing to smoother development workflows. The seamless pipeline creation process includes built-in connectors for Azure services, simplifying pipeline setup and enabling automated deployments with minimal manual intervention.
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Azure DevOps Services Reviews
33 Reviews
Enterprises (1,001+ employees)
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Azure DevOps Services for me is a one stop solution for managing my project work. With managing what i emphasize on if regular creation and maintenance of user stories on how and where is project headed to, bugs maintenance, team retrospective, source control management for codes and last but not the least continuous integration and deponent of my code to production
Pros
Continuous integration
Continuous deployment
User stories creations
Bug tracking
Cons
Cost
Provide its Training
External tools integration
Likelihood to Recommend
It can be best suited for projects that jave extensive relying on Microsoft projects and it can seamlessly Integrate with Microsoft active directory. Another work scenario suited best could be if the project is agile development, Azure DevOps Services gives a lot of tools and it's services that could proce efficient for agile projects such as boards, retrospectives etc.
We use Azure DevOps Services to track our digital project from starting to finish. We need a platform to track all the epics, features, user stories, defects and other relevant task for general agile practice. We also need the platform to be integrate with our repository and pipeline so that we could automate the deployment.
Pros
Customization on fields under user stories
Repository and Peer review can be done easily
Cons
It's hard to track the overall progress of peer review on the new changes
Cannot manage piles of work before starting of development during the problem discovery stage
Likelihood to Recommend
It is suitable for organization looking to automate their software deployment and want a good integration for developer.
Not so well to track items from business' lens as the functionality is heavily IT driven.
We use Azure DevOps for all our digital projects. It helps with organizing features and work with the development team. We have an overview of the sprints and it helps knowing where we are and where we are going.
Pros
Sprint planning
Feature development
Visual representation of digital projects
Cons
New items not showing in board, unless you click on "More items"
The attachment tab is too far away from the details.
You always need to tag people so they get notified when you added comments. It would be nice that it notifies the owner of the item automatically.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's really great for organizing digital projects. I like that you have an historic of everything in the work items. I think it is less appropriate for business analysis. A white board like Miro is best suited in these cases.
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Verified User
Strategist in Product Management (5001-10,000 employees)
We are following SAFe practices by using Azure DevOps starting from PI planning to retrospective. We are using all features starting from Work items, Dashboards, Repo, CI/CD pipelines etc..
Pros
Product Management
Delivery Plans
CI/CD
Cons
Integrate GitHub with Azure DevOps and have just one product
Automatic set Start and Target Date for Delivery Plan based on user story sprint assignment
Likelihood to Recommend
For small enterprises to big, it applies to all for efficient and effective product management with full traceability in built.
We use ADO for a wide range of things. We create work items in there, essentially being a unique number that we can associate with a project. We also use ADO to create features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases in ADO. The linking system in ADO allows good visibility across these.
Pros
The use of the scrum-like board, which can be customized to your liking.
Excellent linking and visibility across items in ADO e.g. user stories, features, test cases, tasks, etc.
Storing Test Cases.
Cons
I did mention it has good visibility in terms of linking, but sometimes items do get lost, so if there was a better way to manage that, that would be great.
The wiki is not the prettiest thing to look at, so it could have refinements there.
It could improve the search slightly better.
Likelihood to Recommend
ADO is well suited for the visibility of day-to-day tasks and responsibilities as well as things such as Features, user stories, etc. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any scenario where it might not be well suited, as you can customize ADO to your liking to a degree.
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Verified User
Professional in Professional Services (10,001+ employees)
As an IT Service Manager, I use Azure DevOps Services to improve on our existing software development and IT service management processes. We mostly use the built-in source control, work tracking, build automation, and release management functions of Azure DevOps. Our use case involves several software development projects and focuses mainly on Source Control and Collaboration to allow our dev teams to securely store and collaborate on their code, Work item tracking to track the progress of bug fixes and enhancements, as well as user stories, Build Automation to reduce errors and speed up the dev cycle Automating deployments using the built-in release management functions.
Pros
Tracking of user stories, bugs, and dev tasks, which allows our devs and business analysts to collaborate.
Automated and better-controlled software deployments.
DevOps has improved how our devs handle version control of their code (fewer conflicts).
Cons
The sheer number of features can be overwhelming for new users!
Better integration with external tools such as our service management platform.
Setting up build configs and pipelines can be tricky for first-timers.
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure DevOps is great for agile software development with larger teams as the included features for managing user stories, sprints, and backlogs allow larger dev teams to more easily plan, track, and deliver software releases. It is also great for CI/CD because of the options for automating build, testing, and deployment processes. The integration with various Azure services makes it easy to deploy in cloud environments, and therefore it is an ideal tool for us as we use Microsoft Azure extensively for hosting our business applications. It's less useful for smaller projects or individual developers as many of the features will simply never be used, and there are more lightweight tools available. There are also better tools available for task tracking in non-software development projects or if your organization relies heavily on non-Microsoft products.
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Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
We use Azure DevOps to host our code repository. This has helped make it easy to integrate with Visual Studio to be able to write code and save it to the cloud. We are also using it as our Kanban board for ongoing projects to keep developers on track. This has helped our team keep track of tasks within multiple projects.
Pros
Project management.
Code repository.
Integration with visual studio.
Cons
Testing functionality.
It could be hard to configure for newcomers.
Make it easier to integrate boards with teams.
Likelihood to Recommend
KANBAN BOARDS Easiest to use and to make it easy to project manage. Able to place code for the tasks within the Boards. CODE REPOSITORY Great way to keep code in a cloud-based environment. Easy to use with Visual Studio and to be able to manipulate any code quickly and easily.
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Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Azure DevOps is used for project management of our sprint tickets to assign within team and provide the dashboard information to our project managers. The user story is easy to create and assign to the owner and then create the sub-task to assign within the user for different tasks like (Development, Peer QA, Final QA e.t.c)
Pros
User Story
Dashboard
Sub Task Creation
Reporting
Cons
Divide sub task and timings
Time divide between each task
Integration with other tools is difficult
Likelihood to Recommend
As the other project tool management it is good because of the part of Azure family. Being a Microsoft tools it is quite compatible with the other azure products. Azure DevOps is very useful for the operational project to create all the user stories with the same task including various ad-hoc tasks
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Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)
Our organization is using Azure DevOps for a SaaS-based code repository and we also use it for tracking our Agile/Scrum processes in our Application Development and IT Operations departments. It allows a central, cloud-based solution for our tracking our CI/CD pipelines and simplifies tracking our stories and features during our two-week Sprint cycles. It is also well used by the QA for their test cases and testing.
Pros
Project code pipeline service.
Good tool for Agile practices
Test Plans
Clean n clear UI
Cons
Board could be more advanced
Pipelines should support advance tasks like database migration
Merging conflicts in tool
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure DevOps is well suited as a single platform for all DevOps processes. It has everything for a product from the repository, work items board, pipelines, test plans and execution, artifacts, etc. It has also a range of project numbers and pipeline execution time for free each month to help new developers or startups. It is appropriate for teams without DevOps members and standards.
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Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
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
Pros
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
Cons
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
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
