Azure DevOps

What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?

It is a one stop solution for everything when it comes to manage you software team .. starting from planning .. until testing and releasing the product! 1. Manage process and ALM 2. Manage work items (epics / user stories / tasks / bugs) 3. Manage your code repositories that may be multiple per one project which is great! 4. Integrated build pipeline with lots and lots of integrations with other cloud solutions like AWS and for sure Azure! 5. Integrated release pipeline with lots and lots of ways on how to customize your release plan and when you want to release. Be a web or mobile app .. it is at your rescue

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

That I don't need to use other products to compliments a missing feature or something. All in one box .. all integrated seamlessly .. no hassle which makes me focus more at the task at hand.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Absolutely nothing!

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Start small .. and then grow. Don't use all features at once. This is a very big flagship product, Start with: 1. Manage your work items 2. Manage your code 3. Build pipelines Then add more features like .. 1. Testing 2. Release 3. Process and customization and more.

What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?

It's really easy to adapt from any background with minors or no customizations. It's ready to fulfill most of the needs of any development team out of the box. Similar products need multiple addons/plugins to archive just the same features and qualities that ADO provides by default.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The free experience provides the same features for small teams, enough to get used to it and test if it fits for your team (it probably will)

What do you dislike most about this product?

Azure DevOps is an Azure service, so, if Azure gets any problem in your region, not only your software (Webs, APIs, VMs, etc) using azure is going to be affected, your Azure DevOps it's probably going to be affected also, Boards, Code, Tests, etc. Is not usual, but when it happens, it creates a major impact on the whole company, especially if you are heavy Microsoft dependant.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Try the free version, you have almost all the features you will have if paying for a licence. You can even use it for a small team for the time you need.

What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?

It has a simple superior interface bundled with multiple features that makes it the most preferred solution among other competitors. It is extremely easy to create, manage, code, test and deploy features for a product and maintain the lifecycle neatly. The best part is there are multiple 3rd party integration supports.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ease and flexibility it provides to build, test and deploy applications smoothly is what makes Azure DevOps really stand out!

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing at the current moment. A bit costly but worth every penny!

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's a total value for money and being a freemium product, there is no harm in trying and exploring the features this super-duper ALM suite provides.