TrustRadius Insights for Azure DevOps Services are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
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
25 Reviews
Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)
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We use Azure DevOps to coordinate our implementation of development changes and technical processes (configurations / setups) for Business Central. First we create a master document listing all the modifications / extensions from a functional standpoint (master), then have individual tasks with tech design and hours assigned. Each time code with Git is sync'd and merged between one or more developers for the monolith extension app, it is tracked with the task assigned. Finally, as each task is worked through the status is updated and sync'd with the time keeping system (F&O) with PowerAutomate. This gives insight into the progress vs. hours consumed vs. original estimate in real time.
Pros
Utilize Git as a repository to share work between multiple users
Ability to configure Pipelines to build containers to run virtual deployments and testing scripts.
Split individual tasks and relate to master documents for quick navigation and ability to see overall picture of project.
Track status of each task
Integrate with Git to utilize branches, merging, approvals, history, etc.
Cons
Have better project management to also be used with functional implementation rather than just development
Have the ability to integrate with a customer facing interface to give visibility into the project status and components.
Smoother integration into time keeping systems such as F&O or Business Central for overall project management reporting / accounting
Likelihood to Recommend
DevOps is much more user friendly than Git itself. There is a more GUI-centric interface, tighter integration with the Azure / Entra architecture. For those of use in the Microsoft-sphere, it really is excellent for code-centric project management. I rate this as an 8 because it does not seem quite as well suited for fully functional / non-code project aspects in implementation. Nor does it have customer / end-user portal / front end for easy reporting and insight.
The application has provided the most suitable agile tools for managing projects in the organization. It tracks closely the task development infrastructure to enhance best implementation practices. My team has been depending on this platform for the last one year and the results have come out with positive ROI. Azure DevOps Services helps each department in performance modelling.
Pros
Monitoring web development process.
Building workflow pipeline.
Customization of dashboards.
Cons
Our goals have been implemented positively.
I have not experienced any missing feature.
Likelihood to Recommend
Our main projects have been developed under the excellent operations of this product. Deployment and testing of new applications has been great step ahead since we deployed this tool. Integration with other Azure services has been successful with top-notch results that have promoted faster production growth. It is easy to learn how this product operates even when you are fresher.
We deliver all the CI/CD processes of a mortgage company marketing department located in the US to the Azure portal. Web UI services, APIs, Function Apps, etc.
Pros
Visual orchestration of CI/CD process.
Track of current/last satisfactory delivered to environments.
Open to connecting to different Azure/AWS services to deliver software.
Cons
Improvement in metrics and dependencies.
Improve the pricing for more than one build agent at a time.
Connection to Power BI.
Likelihood to Recommend
Very good to have your CI/CD delivery process set up for Azure Cloud. Maybe better integration with external third-party cloud providers, and be a bit more cloud agnostic.
We use Azure DevOps for the CI CD of our applications and the scrum boards. We also create artifacts and consume those artifacts in our applications All our reports are also available on it. With another extension, we can add our time tracking for items in the PBI. To get an overview of open PR, we configured some dashboards.
Pros
The scrum board is pretty good.
CI/CD.
Repos
Cons
For PM, it's not really easy to bulk import a lot of items.
The search in code does not always find some things.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great to use when you use Scrum, Repos, and CI/CD. This way, you don't need multiple applications, but you can just use Azure DevOps. For development, I find it pretty good. You can link your items to your Pull request, and you will be able to see what changes have been made. The only downside is that if you want to make your board visible to a lot of stakeholders, it won't be that easy.
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Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
We are currently using Azure DevOps Services to manage the entire software development cycle. Azure Board, pipelines, and test cases are wonderful features in one platform. when you use pipelines, you will have drag and drop choices for quickly building your CI/CD pipelines. Azure Board will help you to manage your project management in an effective way.
Pros
Azure Board to project management
Azure pipelines to automation in your project
Azure test cases to manage your test cases management
Cons
improvement in dashboard
improvement in repository access
improvement in Azure artifact management
Likelihood to Recommend
- project management for Azure Board - code management for Azure repo - continuous integration and continuous delivery we have Azure pipelines - Artifact management we do have Azure Artifact - Test case management we have Azure test cases
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Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
In my opinion, This is one of the Hottest products right now booming in the market. This has solved lot of problems in terms of Automation and End to End Deployments. In our organization, We are using this for 1. To track Team's Efforts in terms of User stories and Assigning Tasks. 2. Storing all the code and performing End to End Deployment and Testing from Development phase to Production Phase.
This has actually solved a lot of problems which all the Team members used to face few years back, setting the tasks, scope, completion is now smoother and easier for everyone. We also have the option to Integrate with other software's and perform the deployments which is a huge plus.
Pros
Azure Boards to Assign tasks, User stories to team members and track their time so easily.
Azure Repos used to store all the code used from Development phase to Production Phase.
Azure Pipelines - Great feature to deploy the products with End to End testing.
Automating any kind of solution/problem on Azure Cloud using PowerShell/CLI scripting.
Cons
Security of the Third Party Plugins Integrated with the Pipelines.
Notification of the Tasks which are getting closer in time.
Can Improve in terms of integrating few more required software.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well Suited: To Automate End to End Solution on any cloud. Deploying End to End product with End to End Testing. Maintaining all the Team's Efforts, bit much in Agile Methodology.
Less Appropriate: Using Extra Software's when required is bit hard to Integrate.
We are new to using Azure DevOps Services, we use a different tool for DevOps. This year, we have started the implementation of Azure DevOps for some applications, especially D365 applications. At the moment, we use it only for Development, QA and UAT, we haven't done any Production deployment yet, however, early next year we are going to start doing it.
Pros
Easy to create pipelines
Intuitive
Cons
Pipelines sometimes are really slow
Support needs to be improve
Likelihood to Recommend
In our case, Azure DevOps services is well suited with applications hosted on Azure, such as D365, on-premises or custom Applications are hard to implement, different aspects won't work properly. We are still new to using it, maybe we haven't found the best way to apply it.
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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
Azure DevOps offers a wide variety of tools for a CI/CD environment and it's really useful. We are moving from a static build model to an automated one and so VSTS has the tools we need to continue growing in the future. We started using VSTS, now Azure DevOps, as a code repository only and that's the main use within our organization.
Pros
Private repositories
User management
Security
Extensions
Cons
Some integration with 3rd party tools or services could be better
Has a lot of options, but sometimes are hard to find
Non standard build/test workflows could be problematic
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure DevOps Services is a great service. Its function as a code repository is great, and its integration with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code lets you work in a natural way from these tools. MS Teams integration exists as far as we test it requires an Azure subscription, so it does not apply to the free 5 user tier.
We have been using it for at least 5 years and it's rock-solid in its function and always adds new options and features. We started using it because of its free 5 user private repositories function. Now GitHub does the same (and it's also from Microsoft) but Azure DevOps Services offers more options and tools, so we will stick with this service.
We use Azure DevOps internally to manage some of our hardware projects, leveraging the project management and resource sharing features of the platform. With various clients, we leverage the code repository and pipeline features in addition to project management to provide a full fledged CI/CD development workflow for new and continued work.
Pros
Full project pipeline service.
Good story/task management.
Robust pipeline.
Cons
Pipeline configuration.
Multiple-repository management per project.
Permissions management.
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure DevOps provide a great resource when you want a "soup to nuts" approach to building software and tracking its deployments and updates. Using the project board to create stories and tasks, you can easily create code branches in which to do the work, which provides a great audit trail to when bugs were fixed or features completed. By using the pipelines, you can allow automation to deploy completed work, track its history, and easily roll back if needs be.
We use Azure DevOps/VSTS for the entire agile approach to software development at the organization I work for. We use Azure Boards for managing work in sprints, providing us with live features for planning & retrospectives. We use the Azure Repos feature for Git version control of our code and for PR processes, and pipelines & releases for building, linting, and testing code & deploying code to multiple environments via a continuous integration approach. We use Azure Artifacts to host our NuGet packages to be used by multiple projects for code reusability.
Pros
Git repositories feature is fully featured with a friendly web interface.
Azure pipelines & releases are very flexible for CI/CD practices.
Azure Boards allows linking work items to code and for a closer relationship between code & the sprint rather than using a secondary piece of software like JIRA/Trello.
Cons
User interface looks nice but it can often be quite hard to find things that you need.
Many features are now being ported over to GitHub, in a more fleshed-out way (e.g. GitHub Actions), after the Microsoft acquisition.
Documentation can be limited.
Likelihood to Recommend
Primarily best for Microsoft dev houses (C#/.NET, TypeScript/JavaScript). Provides all the features you'd expect for an agile development workflow all in one package.
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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
