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.

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Microsoft

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Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

11 months

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Verified User in Chemicals

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/14/2022

"Great CI/CD tool for Microsoft stack"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

DevOps Pipelines CI/CD cababilities for web app development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

User and role management is somewhat complex to handle when several different teams using DevOps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/24/2022

"Azure DevOps + airfocus integration 👍👍"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

Automatic updates between these two workspaces make it super easy to stay on task and keep track of what's going on, especially when working with dev teams remotely! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Was a little tough to set up and first. Options that I wasn't sure what tho select but support was able to help out! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/6/2022

"Underrated project management tool"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

Hierarchical view of epocs, features and stories, queries and pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

First, the name itself is too technical for any business stakeholders also to use it. Instead of calling it DevOps, it can be a simpler name if you wanna compete w Monday.com or JIRA.

There is no way to manage the backlog by sprint with hierarchical view. Queries only offer the complete list with just one level of parent.

Wiki is very limited with not much document templates and easy reference.

Attachments in the stories could be readily displayed instead of being hidden in a diff tab.

Overall, the tool is still immature though it has it all in basic stage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vara V.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/23/2022

"Lacks Roadmap & Portfolio views"

3/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

Usage of Backlog view, Sprint Boards, and Query capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Lacks progress rollup at the portfolio level Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul Kumar S.

Associate Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/9/2020

"Best DevOps in the Market"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

DevOps is very new and trending product in the market. Azure is one to trend much among them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

There are a rare dislikes. But I would recommend you to use and verify if those dislikes really matters in your projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Charan Raj Y.

QA Automation Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/26/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Full application lifecycle management tool, Planning to Coding, & from Testing to build and deploy"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Boards?

Dev Ops help deliver smaller features to customers with Higher efficiency and Speed

Can easily integration with Visual Studio.

Amazing User Experience within a beautiful UI

Code management , Daily Tasks tracking , Sprint planning and Overall Project progress like Kanban boards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Boards?

Sometimes the performance is low, like it gets frequently getting signed out.

Every time we need to clear cache to relogin the application

Test plan tab - Scope to documentation the testing activities poor.

Column sorting is not for all states and features

As already mentioned, its for all the teams but comparatively best for Developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Boards:

I believe it can be used in all projects, big or small. and every can streamline their projects using this tool

I mean any development or Any industry like IT, Banking, Construction, anyone can use this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Sprint planning, Tracking of Daily Tasks of each team member, Approving build pipe lines

Overall Project progress at any time

Once build deploys , the automation suite will trigger to get the Smoke or regression test results (means integration with Automation tool immediately after build push.)

Leave plans like Capacity planning and Task Boards

We can run Queries and get results

Retrospective meetings and tracking in every sprint Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Its truely a 1 stop shop. It blends the team together nicely such they everyone can easily be on the same page. You can also gather some great KPI's and reports for upper mangement. There a 100's of extension 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 regardina work item. Which bring 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 and entire SaaS platform on it. Along with managing an overseas team of developers. Managing developers us 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 shorted development timer-frame, better release cycles, better issue tracking and better releases over all. More over, the developer 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 seems 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 any where 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.