We are automating a lot of tasks with Azure DevOps and saving our teams a lot of time doing repetitive tasks. The ability to create workflow like pipelines has saved us days of work and continues to keep automating tasks for us. It is like having another team member doing things...

My favorite is that their API can be used to do almost anything in the GUI, we use it heavily to store values across pipelines. The other option we use a lot is secure files for our certs, ssh keys and other text files containing important information which is encrypted and not output in clear test. Another thing that I like about Azure DevOps is that you can use it with any of the products that are on the market we use it heavily with Ansible to the point that we are able to get Ansible-tower like functionality without the extra license. Every day the community makes it easier by adding tasks to simplify working with inputs and outputs for example Terraform state file management, Ansible secrets, Packer Image Builder, etc. I can go on and on but the other major integration is with Security where we can scan our code at the time we commit and before running on our pipelines.

I cannot find a specific con but I can see alerts about service availability about once per month but hasn't affected my usability.

It's great for project management. I think it's an effective way for both large projects and small Proof of concepts. I personally found myself using it to manage small sprints on medium sized long-term projects

It integrates well with other Azure services. You can even have branches setup on the same project. Despite a few aesthetic changes, the UI reminds me very much of Jira and other management software. It's clean and intuitive.

I want to use it more to get a better sense of the shortcomings but coming from another platform, I find it to have less plugins and add ons than the others. Maybe it's to keep the clean boards and tasks but I'd like more 3rd party options.

Great for developers only--not a tool I would recommend for anyone outside of an engineering team.

Azure DevOps has great code management abilities for developers to build, commit & deploy their code. If used properly with the Scrum/Kanban boards, the ability to tie the work to the code is crucial.

This tool is truly only meant for developers to be able to manage their work and their code. I would not recommend any front-facing users (business or leadership-type people) to use Azure DevOps because it is not necessarily the cleanest or easiest tool to maneuver. The way work (stories, bugs, etc.) is shown on scrum & kanban boards (compared to other tools) seems overly complicated and not user friendly. The reporting & filtering capabilities are also minimal and the result is not ideal to send off to leadership teams.

Azure DevOps services helps individuals like developers, QA, Product owners to track the progress of the product on a single page. Once does not have to hop on to the multiple tools / software's to track the product progress.

One of the best tool for the organizations who follows agile methodologies. Azure DevOps services makes product/software development easy with its user friendly and everything in one place feature. One can priorities the backlogs in Azure Boards and implement the CICD pipelines in Azure pipelines with integrated Git repository.

Sometimes the connection to the Azure DevOps server slows down the response. Azure boards can be improved in terms of user interface like other ticketing tools.

Very good experience so far. Did have some trouble in the beginning to locate my tasks, but then once the boards and sprints are set up properly, everything becomes super well organised.

Easy to connect to repos and link to tickets. Easy to find and locate any kind of tasks. Easy to set up sprints and locate tasks.

Might be a bit tricky at first to navigate all those menus and features, but once you get the hang of it, super easy to use.

An excellent all in one tool to address DevOps from one place

The versatility of this software is immense. It has the ability to track work items using Kanban boards, store code using TFVC/Git, and the ability to automate deployment as per CI/CD for your pipelines.

The learning curve when it comes to the automation part for preexisting legacy process can be a bit difficult to understand and set up

I adopted this tool from the first day

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

Testing pipeline build or release need more times

VSTS DevOps is helping use to manage team ,code and operation. We are using it with Azure Cloud and the experience is really good. vNext build is able to build the .net Core application easily.

VSTS DevOps provide the complete integrity with Development and Operational work. The architecture is helping in boosting the development & Operational process. VSTS take care for complete CI/CD pipeline. Best and loving part in it is that it provide freedom in selecting the TFVC or GIT as version controlling. Integrity with Azure Cloud is also good which it make this tool a complete DevOps system so that it can be achieve the deployment part with zero outage. XAML and vNext build help in deployment of 100's servers without any human error, as it just need one time setup for builds.

Installation architecture of VSTS DevOps having a lot of curves, Build Controller and Gated Build need time to setup and Microsoft should make it easy to under and setup. In last few years I am seeing the changes the it moving towards the web-based application, Console like security and permission are now only available in web base pages only.

Overall since we had all our infrastructure hosted in Azure for us it was very convenient to host our source code and our build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps and we had a good experience with them.

The best thing about Azure DevOps is that it is natively integrated and connected to all of your other Azure cloud resources and it makes it easy to manage and govern you infrastructure because they are all inside Azure. It has all kinds of templates for your various software platforms to enable you build and deploy your code from Azure hosted source control into Azure services for your customers.

Sometimes the build machines can be slow, you need to bring your own build machines and setting your own build machines can be complicated. The Git aspect of the Azure DevOps is also not as smooth as other competitions in the market like Github, but it is very extensible.

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

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

We use Azure DevOps Services for every aspect of the Application Lifecycle: requirements and tasks, Git repo, pipelines, bug tracking, Package management, Test management.

Smart agile tools, unlimited Git repos and modern services to build and ship our software products

Need to improve the Task boards features (in particular reports based on effort/story points)

Since introducing this to our team over 2 years ago we have seen a noticeable increase in productivity and satisfaction from our executive group. We can better articulate the total sum of work remaining and to be done which increases team morale and strategic direction. Highly recommended for any organization looking to implement Agile methodology within their teams.

Azure DevOps is the absolute leader for Agile deployment. Agile is woven all throughout the DNA of the system and lends itself perfectly to the process and practices that underpin Agile. The best features by far ar the Backlog and Decomposing of tasks. This is beneficial to any working group, IT or otherwise. The other great features are the reporting and burn down chart which provide real time information for team progress that can be broken down further into it's component parts.

Not too many complaints based on our teams usage of the product but I would say some features can be quite advanced for a team if it's not fully practicing Agile. It is easy to use what you need to and ignore what you don't want but it can be overwhelming for new users.

All in all, I found Azure DevOps Services very useful. It has some of the great features which i have been using daily. It helps me to collaborate with colleagues, track working items, plan sprints, Source code management and Continuous integration/deployment of builds.

Azure DevOps Services offers various features, I'm using Pipelines(CI/CD), Artifacts, Boards and Repositories mostly. All of the features are very well developed and easy to use. Intensive documentation is offered by Microsoft to learn more about platform's features. Board helps me to track work items. Repositories helps to do peer programming and Pipelines helps to build automatically and deploy. It's integration with other tools like Sonarqube, Ansible and Jenkins are not that hard as well.

If some of the features comes with learning curve. Apart from that, Microsoft hosted agent pools has its own limitation they are not very useful if we have some special requirements for our project.

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

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

As a DevOps engineeer I help a group of teams with there Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Team Foundation Server (TFS) is an unmissible part in the ALM setup. TFS is very customizable, and you can fast add new projects to the lifecycle to to TFS

ease of use clear architecture quick setup easy to customize. From dashboards, to custom Build tasks. Very good at helping you prevent legacy. For example we have over 200 build definitions. These are very good manageable due to the use of Task Groups. Integration with Git version control is first class

We don't use the Release module of Team Foundation Server because it misses a lot of features compared to Octopus Deploy

Overall still very happy with the product. Like it much more than Jira.

The ability to manage our large portfolio of work amongst our teams. The traceability of being able to tie code to user stories is great for auditing purposes. Release mgmt functionality is great.

Wish it were more robust from Portfolio Mgmt perspective. We had to go with a different product to meet the needs of our organization. So we need to double enter work from our portfolio mgmt tool into azure dev ops.

Better quality of Software, Faster delivery times, automated feedback loops and validation times. Wins all round for different departments.

-Build and release pipelines -integrated git repositories -Notifications -Tasks market place -Automated testing and result dashboards on each release Since implementing we have removed almost all manual processes, speeding up delivery times and quality of our products.

Some tasks on the marketplace our out of date and dont work, have to be careful what you install and use within a pipeline.

My experience with Azure DevOps is great. Fits like a glove - if you are into Azure. We tried to integrate non-Azure stuff (mostly Open Source that are in no relation with Azure), we had to apply workarounds

If your organization uses Azure Cloud and other Azure products, this is the right DevOps service for you. Seamless integration and well knit into the stack. Ability wise you can integrate other products too - but needs decent effort.

If your organization is not an Azure shop and you use may be one or 2 products, this is an overkill. You have better equivalent choices in market to pick.

Lost access to all my code, which used to work as a serviceable Git repository and now doesn't.

It was an easy way to use Git. I thought that Microsoft was good, but I should have known better.

Losing access suddenly to all my code is bad.

Ease to deployInexpensiveQualify is guaranteed

Limited development skills on azures development

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

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.

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

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

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.

Overall experience has been great. We use it to manage our release every sprint as it helps in code repository management and deployments

Integration with GitHub and Power Platform is seamless

It is a bit complex with respect to initial setup

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

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