Azure Boards Reviews & Product Details

Azure Boards is a comprehensive work tracking system designed to help teams plan, monitor, and discuss their projects efficiently. It offers a suite of agile tools, including Kanban boards, backlogs, team dashboards, and custom reporting, enabling teams to manage their workflows effectively and maintain full traceability throughout the development lifecycle. Key Features and Functionality: - Kanban Boards and Backlogs: Facilitate flexible work item tracking and sprint planning with drag-and-drop functionality, allowing teams to visualize and manage tasks seamlessly. - Customizable Dashboards and Workflows: Create tailored data views, configure layouts, and monitor project progress with ease. Start with pre-built workflows or design custom ones to suit your team's specific needs. - Integration with Popular Tools: Access over 1,000 extensions or develop your own. Azure Boards integrates with favorite tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack, enhancing collaboration through efficient ChatOps. - GitHub Integration: Connect your GitHub repository to Azure Boards to link commits and pull requests directly to work items, boosting team productivity even in complex projects. Primary Value and User Solutions: Azure Boards addresses the challenges of project management by providing agile, scalable tools that cater to diverse team requirements. It ensures comprehensive traceability from ideation to release, keeping teams aligned with all code changes linked directly to work items. Built-in Scrum boards and planning tools support teams in executing sprints, stand-ups, and planning meetings effectively. Advanced analytics tools and dashboard widgets offer new insights into project health and status, empowering teams to make informed decisions and deliver high-quality software efficiently.

Seller

Microsoft

Discussions

Azure Boards Community

Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

saurabh ranka

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

11 months

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User Insights

Average based on 140 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

1 month

Perceived Cost

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Helmy F.

Web Manager Intern

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/7/2023

"a place for users to plan, track progress, and collaborate on building software solutions."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

Speed up time to market, Adapt to market and competition, Maintain system stability and reliability, and many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Microsoft Azure requires expertise to operate, so all required parts are functional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/13/2022

"Best in segment for project management."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

As a person working on this project for more than three years, I can say I have not seen better software for project management. It's very much integrated with other software like Power Bi which makes lives easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

As of now, I don't think I have faced any flaws in this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mahesh D.

DevOps Team Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/8/2023

"Lead DevOps"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

A common place for SCM, CI & CD, and Wiki to collaborate effectively with the DEV team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Wiki is not effective as Confluence wiki. Doesn't have much features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ibrahim L.

Managing Consultant Microsoft Dynamics Technical

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/8/2023

"Very good experience, help a lot to keep track project items"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

Dashboard, easy to create and maintain. User friendly as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Statistical charts on dashboards is not accurately represent data results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/30/2022

"Useable tool from project management perspective"

3/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

It provides good enough features for our squad to manage our backlogs in a centralised space in an organised and systemic way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

In terms of backlog prioritisation, it lacks features in facilitating team discussion. For example, it's too flexible in giving any story points but no scale is given or suggested. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/17/2023

"Great experience in project management"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

It was very easy to handle. I helps to maintain a backlog. It provides flexibility in handling a project specific work item and keeping track of overall progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Multiple assignees cannot be added. It takes some time at start to get to know about it. Also installation time taken is more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vikas T.

Technical Lead

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/16/2022

"Highly flexible tool to manage your project"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

One point solution for many challenges. Project Management(in Agile, SCRUM, Basic, CMMI), CI/CD pipelines, and Test cases are very helpful. User access control is also very well taken care of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

There are constraints around the service agent that is created on demand. This could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robert B.

CTO

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/29/2022

"Great product! Practically free!"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

Azure DevOps is a full fledged ALM, it provides all necessary capabilities to building modern CI/CD pipelines, ticketing system and it supports different SDLC methodologies agile,CMMI and between. Very easy to configure, all in the cloud! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Very minor concern, Build agents package restorations take longer than a local machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Boards:

Use this product with the mindset of anything you need is supported by this product, so if you don't find it, keep looking in the documentations and you will. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Boards solving and how is that benefiting you?

Entire SDLC activities, Portfolio management, Ticketing, codebase repository, code reviews and builds, releases and documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Janusz N.

Senior IT Manager / DevOps Tech Lead/ Azure DevOps, Cloud Engineer | Data & Analytics

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/18/2022

"Azure DevOps Projects review."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

In ADO Project, you can manage all application components from work items, ci and cd pipelines, artifacts, manage and execute test plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

null; as ADO covers all application life cycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.