Azure DevOps Services Reviews

A fantastic offering for small development teams

Comments: We've improved a number of key workflows with Azure DevOps and it's proved to be an invaluable addition to our software development cycle.

Pros:

The service provides a lot under the one package, task management, source control, CI/CD, and release pipelines. If you are a small team or just starting off, you'll be able to take advantage of it all for either free, or very little money. It's clearly designed to get teams hooked on Azure and it does this job well.

Cons:

The UI is clunky in places, task management specifically leaves a lot to be desired. While the close integration with source control is fantastic, editing and navigating between tasks take far too long and you're much more likely to avoid doing it or take a lot longer to complete a simple job.

Tools for doubling productivity

Comments: Many plugins and events, such as git repository updates, can be triggered to run builds and tests automatically. By continuously building and testing, it is possible to detect deviations and defects early and improve the quality and efficiency of development.

Pros:

The functionality can be extended with add-ons; since there are many add-ons, you can do a wide range of things. Being able to do certain things even when engineers are not present also helps to keep the product running stably.

Cons:

I would be happy if the manual to consult when I don't understand the operation is a little more complete.

A basic functional Review

Comments: Overall experience is neutral.
Looking forward if they improve the product.

Pros:

The software has many advantages - 1. Complete bundle/package to push a build on production. 2.Can keep all the builds/production code with versioning. 3.Bug, User story, accès rights are very well segregated. 4. From assigning a new user story to making a task and assigning bug the process is complete, you do not need any other software to manage the team. 5.Can be easily integrated with GitHub too(if you have paid version of both) 6.Security wise a good and trustable product.

Cons:

There are some cons too which I felt- 1. Firstly the azure dashboard takes too long to load/ refresh (without any wifi/internet issue). 2. Many times it just stuck on a single page. 3. As they are providing a complete package of multiple functionality , the smooth user interface is missing. Literally many times you just have to search for a single things and you will be puzzled in the complete dashboard. 4.If you have a lot of number of projects ongoing and you are part of a big project with multiple members, the user story is not very clear. 5. Options of "not replicable" and many options are missing in bug lifecycle. They should add more lifecycle to task and bugs for better clarity.

Microsoft's one stop shop for planning, task, code, versions and releases management

Comments: If I get a say in the selection of tooling before starting the project, Azure DevOps is my go to.

Pros:

It's a full suite usable directly as is with very little configuration needed to get a jump start. Customizations and integrations are still possible though. I like the work experience better with Azure DevOps board rather than one of the competing backlog/task management suites.

Cons:

The Azure DevOps Boards seems a bit forgotten/sunsetting tool but hopefully there would be still future new features and enhancements to make it even better.Git approvals workflow really should be much more seamless so that either work from developer and approver perspective is only done in Git and automatically reflects to Azure DevOps tasks/work items. Or other way around, approval requests would get populated as task on board and moving it to done column would automatically approve pull request in Git. There is some still unlocked potential there with integration and seamless working experience.

My personal view

Comments: I like the eas of use, very good integration possibilities in the already existing Office tools like teams or to-do app. I also like the Azure devops market place

Pros:

I would like to see more priorization features like a priorization matrix tools on workitem base

Cons:

The view of the work items are not always logical not always clear why some work items are not shown when filtered for example to assigned person

Azure DevOps Services means deeper control and great flexibility to me.

Comments: Most essential and quite helpful. It simplifies work.

Pros:

Ease of deployment is what I would pride most with this software. It has simplified our work especially in testing and app deployment. It automates source code development and it is quite flexible. Go for it.

Cons:

Let us enjoy this flawless software together.it has no complex features. Very easy to use and integrate. Am impressed.

My Azure service experience

Comments: With Azure, I can say that I have a go to platform for my cloud and DevOps deployment with a reasonable price and Ultimum service.

Pros:

Compared to some other DevOps and Cloud hosting platforms that I know, there's clear distinction when you compared with Azure, take prices, good navigation dashboard, prompt resolutions, I give it to Azure.

Cons:

What I can say as a con, is not actually a con, I just hope they can allow the free $100 on the free subscription can deploy alot of resources as against the current policy.

Azure Devops Or not

Comments: I adopted this tool from the first day

Pros:

Azure Devops is intuitive, easy to use, ergonomic.Anyone can use it without training

Cons:

Testing pipeline build or release need more times

Outstanding flow and control

Pros:

Pro - Communication. The flow of information between the frontline helpdesk team and the DevOps team is greatly increased result in great end user satisfaction

Cons:

only con I can think of is cost. But that is the con for eveything...

Good but.... AD

Pros:

It's good that this is free for smaller teams. It's easy to use and works well.

Cons:

It's tied into active directory and it's a pain in the ass to manage users. Also trying to turn off the thing was a huge pain.

Azure DevOps as the ALM Tool of Choice

Comments: My organization started with 1 team working for development of applications throughout the ALM cycle. We then standardized this as our ALM tool. We folded in the diverse and stubborn teams into the tool without changing many of their tools or processes. We just put this in as the orchestration. Then we customized the templates to cover a wide variety of scenarios for each of the 100+ teams working the product. Finally, we moved our project management, intake, and agile processes into the tool for a single pane of glass across the board for consolidated enterprise management

Pros:

If your company is fully invested in the Microsoft product suite, Azure DevOps is the extension of that investment. It allows direct integration with the Cloud Services in Azure for IaC, CaC, and CI/CD code deployments. It also allows the customization for the workflows for Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, etc... to match up with core source control, testing, along with build and release strategies. Its a one stop shop for each of the core disciplines in IT Teams in the ALM process. If you need extensibility to other platforms outside of Azure, the connectors and integration are available to AWS, Google Cloud, On-premise, etc... It allows your teams to work collectively in 1 platform, but use their "own" tools to deliver (i.e. Java, Jenkins, Linux, etc....).

Cons:

Because the platform has so many connectors and integrations, customization becomes challenging. You need advocates and training to customize the "teams" to standardize and integrate with working patterns. The features being added are more Microsoft oriented than development oriented.

Visual Studio Team Service - A step towards DevOps.

Comments: Microsoft VSTS DevOps is the best move by the Microsoft, as DevOps is the advanced software development strategy. Continuous Testing with integration of xUnit, jUnit and Selenium make it more flexible. Automation build & Deploy with vNext is good as compared to XML build. Collection code coverage is also good. The Azure DevOps enables DevOps for all platform's software development.

Pros:

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Service DevOps is also known as VSTS DevOps. Development in DevOPS methodology is way fast then the agile. It accelerates the development process and developer. Build & Release is also enhance from the previous version and easy to manage the complex merges while release of the different product. Continuous delivery of the product also help the developer to work and focus on the single task which help in increasing the productivity. Automation Test and Monitoring of application possible with it.

Cons:

TFSVC work-space are complex and managing the permission for security is mess up if we select some inappropriate setting. Resolving and fixing it is a big challenge., Microsoft should come with the backup or restore point for the same so if it can be easy to fix can and restore on the earlier position.

Awesome solution to deliver projects at scale

Comments: The experience has been very positive and feedback from my coworkers has been positive in how the tool has helped meet the needs of the broader organization. Given that our team operates in an agile sprint environment, we were able to customize and tailor the tool exactly to our needs so that anyone involved or brought into a project mid way through is able to easily go in and find all the tasks associated with an individual project.

Pros:

I have most liked the ability to record, track and optimize the processes that go into internal collaboration between developers and projects managers. The ability to track the steps and progress of any development projects and the project hierarchy within the front end interface makes it easy to drill down and view details about any given task in the platform.

Cons:

The account manager who has been assigned to help us with customer support has not always been responsive and thorough in providing answers to questions that have some complexities. It was not ideal when needing a faster turn around time for specific development and product needs.

Dev Ops is a must to meet deliverables

Comments: Overall, I would highly recommend this product especially if your organization already uses Microsoft. The integration to other Microsoft products/services is seamless. Being able to connect to your companies active directory and not have to hassle with a user database is a huge plus.

Pros:

As with all other Microsoft products the best part is how easily they all integrate together. Being able to get up and running quickly using an active directory is also a plus. Notifications, workflow, resource management, task assigning, planning sprints, storing document. This tool literally does it all and chances are that if you have an enterprise license with Microsoft you can get this up and running quickly.

Cons:

Planning sprints is a bit of a tedious process. I wouldn't necessarily say this is a con because I dont know if there is a way to change that. Maybe if Dev Ops could make a bulk upload feature or something. Like where you could load a csv file to plan out everything?

Best SDLC management service , ever !!

Comments: Our project delivery time from Design to Release has improved significantly since we started using Azure DevOps.
Devs/Testers can spend more time working on code , than worrying about deploying it

Pros:

1. Requirements, Code , Test Case, Deployment pipeline everything in one place - Thats the best thing I like about Azure Devops 2. Seemless integration with Azure Cloud - you will be able to manage cloud related services in your project easily. 3. Easy to generate Reports, Dashboards etc. Ex: Test Progress report / Pull Request Report / Automated Test Run report. 4. Very user friendly.

Cons:

Organizational view with an ability manage dependencies across different projects would be awesome.

Azure DevOps

Pros:

Great tool for agile software development. We used azure devops to manage our user stories and bugs with Scrum, had our repositories and source control there too. Also the fact that there are plenty of addons (for ex. "Estimate") for it makes azure great tool. Also it is free for 5 users

Cons:

There are some minor bugs and this bugs take too much time to be resolved. Customer support isn't great

The best way to get your CD/CI Pipeline setup without costly overhead

Comments: VSTS DevOps allowed our team to manage our own DevOps and learn more about DevOps without needing to hire and be mentored by DevOps professionals.

Pros:

VSTS DevOps has allowed our team to automate the builds of almost all of our products scaling our release time down and boosting our reliability. We used to be manually deploying our assets which would often cause breaking changes and would spend a day trying to revert the issues but since moving to VSTS DevOps we've been able to roll back versions instantly anytime there are problems but most of the time there aren't issues since VSTS DevOps sends your packages through a build cycle that checks compiler errors.

Cons:

Some of the terminology is a little confusing and sometimes it can be hard to find your way around but well worth it once you get your builds setup.

It has taken a while to get used to, but I like it much better than our old way of doing things.

Comments: I use VSTS Devops as an end user, and let me tell you, it was a big change from my old way of doing things. At my company, we used a combination of SURE and Unisys's Albert in order to keep track of our work. It took a while to get used to VSTS. Everything was in one place, set up for an agile framework, but when I finally got used to it, I loved it so much more.

Pros:

Most of all, I like how easy it is to track my work and the work of everyone on the team. Coming from a waterfall development cycle to an agile one, it's a big adjustment, and VSTS DevOps helps make that process easier.

Cons:

Okay, this might be indicitve of my product manager more than the software itself, but I'd like it if Acceptance Criteria and Steps to Recreate were required fields in any Bug/PBI (where applicable). It would lead to much better work.

VSTS Review

Comments: This tool will help us in planning the sprint by recording resource capacity, goals and task status for a sprint.

Pros:

Dashboard which can accommodate different project task and its status tracking. Getting a burndown chart for the day to day progress.

Cons:

A little bit of confusion when you are looking into the backlogs, taskboard, and current sprint task management.

Full platform supporting agile teams

Pros:

Ironic that the company has moved onto VSTS and theres a lot of support online with regards to being an end user. Setup will always be more work for tech teams deploying the product. VSTS has allowed our project teams to analyse business cases running through the full agile process up until allowing QA to set up and start virtualized environments through VSTS. Amazing product which works well with opensource libraries as well when deploying test environments.

Cons:

Being part of the set up team resulted in a few late nights however once deployed to local servers and set up correctly, it is a breeze. Initial support is still fairly new so a team of DevOps engineers is required to troubleshoot installations and configs.

Best and user friendly Devops services

Comments: Excellent and for any kind of user , developers, testers, devops professionals, managers it's very much user friendly than any other tools in the market.

Pros:

User interface, setting up build processes and release process was quite easier as compared to other devops tools , integration of third party tools was also easy by follow official Microsoft documentation.

Cons:

Nothing as such as of now, maybe sometimes when multiple people accessing the same task from Azure boards the behaviour is not consistent.

All in one DevOps Tool

Comments: Overall it is great tool for DevOps. It has end to end visibility about application Life cycle management.

Pros:

It has all the functions to practice DevOps. It is very to easy to get start and has some free license for trial. I really like the UI.

Cons:

MS release functions every week and sometimes hard to get update the skill in Azure DevOps. Need to improve the UX.

Feature Rich

Pros:

VSTS provides everything our team needs to manage our work, code, continuous integration, and deployment. In the past, i would have 1 or 2 people dedicated to building and maintaining the tools the VSTS provides.

Cons:

I wish there was better integration with non microsoft tools like Slack.

VSTS is becoming a full fledged management tool

Pros:

The think I like the most about this is how everything is integrated. The code that is checked in is tied to the peer review and the feature it is for, which can be tied to the build it was in, which can be tied to the release that went out. This allows all work to be tracked along the entire software development life cycle.

Cons:

The thing that is still lacking are project management tools. However this is something that is continually being worked on and the feature set that exists now is much more robust than what it was a year ago. I expect this to quickly catch up to some of the other tools out there.

A full package

Pros:

It works seamlessly with its own services as well as third party integrations. Reduces a lot of time in developing flows.

Cons:

There is not out of the box way to pass variables from build to release pipeline.