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

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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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Average based on 140 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

1 month

Perceived Cost

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Raphael T.

Chief Technology Officer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/22/2021

"Azure DevOps is GREAT!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

Azure DevOps integrates all aspects of software development. From source control, to stories, to tasks to testing, to builds and finally deployment. It's truly a one-stop shop. It blends the team together nicely so that everyone can easily be on the same page. You can also gather some great KPIs and reports for upper management. There are hundreds of extensions that allow you to overcome just about any issue or problem you are trying to solve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Better integration with Office 365 and OneDrive would be nice. Also, integration with Teams as it relates to the DevOps site. For example, it would be nice to produce a Word document, or an email with all of the attachments and details regarding a work item. Which brings another nice-to-have... integration with a document storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Boards:

This is a no-brainer. Just use this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I recently built an entire SaaS platform on it. Along with managing an overseas team of developers. Managing developers is very easy with DevOps. Also, the fact that design, development, and QA can all be on the same page really makes this a complete product. It even integrates approvals and release management into the product, closing the loop on the entire development cycle. The benefits are shorter development timeframes, better release cycles, better issue tracking, and better releases overall. Moreover, the developers are happier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amy K.

Team lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/11/2021

"Great place for passionate developers"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

Easy integration with CI/CD pipeline

Support to many application frameworks

Easy to deploy to various platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Working on this tool from quite a time and I really like it, doesn't seem to have any dislike but would like to see the improvements and would be exciting to see how innovative this application could be Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Janibel R.

Software QA Automation Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/29/2019

"For teamwork Azure Dev"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

Excellent option to go for projects management. Great for agile methodology, very intuitive to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Until now I have not found anything to dislike, I have not been using it for a long period of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Boards:

If you are looking where to manage your large projects, it does not have to be large, and that the team have access to it all the time., also for tracking Azure DevOps Projects would be a great option to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With Azure DevOps Projects I have been able to connect the project so that the team can access it anywhere and organize the project by managing tasks and track all the hours/effort of each members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/8/2021

"Managing with azure"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

The feature timeline function is great for planning the next releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

The difficulty to change stories and tasks between different projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Boards:

Use the feature timeline! It is great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Planning my sprints. It is easier for my team to understand what is needed to be done In the sprint using the tool. The comment function allows me to understand if my team has any doubts about the requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Suraj P.

Technology Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/5/2021

"Great tool for managing work items, deployments and code base. Has scope for more integrations."

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

Managing repos and pipelines all at once Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Can have better integration with MS Teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Boards:

To make the best out of Azure DevOps, here are some of the primary considerations that can act as a checklist:

- How should the source control be integrated with the work items?

- Does your project use deployment pipelines?

- Do you need multiple projects to communicate with each other via work items, source control and deployment phases?

- Does your current DevOps tool provide sufficient integration with communication tools (like Slack, MS Teams, etc.). This integration is one aspect where Azure DevOps can do better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure DevOps has traditionally been used as VSTS having work item management as well as source control features for the codebase. Now with the additional pipeline integrations, it makes it much easier to use Azure DevOps over alternate tools as the familiar interface makes management tasks very simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maria teresa g.

Asesora Financiera

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/19/2021

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"Good project manager program!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

It's easy to see the tasks for the week. You can see all of this in one shot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

It's not free software; there are many free tools on the market. Many times it is slow to load. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Boards:

Don't add too many cards to the list; it's confusing to see later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Project management. It allows us to better organize the entire organization and have the different departments connected to transfer tasks more quickly. When one task is over or ready for the next step, they see it instantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/19/2021

"ADO Review"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

I like the visualization of Azure Dev Ops. It's a great tool if you are familiar with Kanban boards. I also love that you can connect it to PowerBi and create more visuals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

I don't like the Dashboards page. I find it very difficult to understand and create visuals. For this reason, I decided to connect by ADO Project to PowerBi and create visuals that way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/26/2021

"Great for executing projects"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

I like to track my project end to end and it also serves as a great bridge between developers and the business leads. Also many great features you are able to integrate with GIT, Jenkins, and many useful platforms developers use. Another big thing is that it is easy to use and set up which is a key for my company as we are rolling out many projects in a short period of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

I am not sure, but the cost might be a concern, I don't know the exact details on that, but I will assume many people turn this service down due to cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Riyan M.

Senior Database Administrator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/7/2021

"azure devops helps developers or programmers build frameworks"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

I love the fully automatic CI/CD Integration feature in DevOps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

I find it annoying when creating projects, and I often experience errors in Azure DevOps when the network is weak Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Real Estate

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/26/2021

"Solid tool for MS 365"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

User interface is intuitive, functional & stories can be assigned easily with timeline details so that projected completion can be managed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Reporting for assessing work could be more in depth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For enterprise MS license users that do not want to seek out alternate options, DevOps is already included in the suite & selected users can gain permissions quickly & easily via invite from the creator acct. Org-wide adoption for larger departments is faster than rolling out new system logins, company user setup and/or training. Devs can see task assignment, work from a collective board that is thought out & updated regularly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.