TFS Reviews

The version control itself (version history, branching and merging), shelving change and build server.

With TFS online, now everything is in the cloud, it is tidy and easy to compare and restore, especially my unfinished work, where I use the shelving changes feature. It's very useful.

I can't see any major improvements for now. Maybe the comparing tool is too simple, but I'm using an alternative, so I have no problem at all.

We've used it for five years, basically for source control. I used work items once for a very short time, so I can't consider it as "used".

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

I've not had to use it.

I had to use TFS because it was there in the companies where I worked, but I also used CVS and Git. I think that TFS is easier because it is already integrated with Visual Studio, if you are using Visual Studio.

I've never setup a TFS server.

if TFS was completely free (not limited to five members for online), I would suggest using it, but the price for extra members is too expensive in my opinion and is worth it only if you are using Visual Studio, otherwise other solutions can do basically the same (talking only about source control).

• Source control
• Work items
• Team build

• It's easy to implement agile methodology, updated and uniform code on work spaces.
• Work items allows easier tracking for risks, bug and issues, and tasks.

As of now, TFS delivers what we need on the project/business.

I've used it for seven years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Customer Service:

I haven't needed their help yet.

Technical Support:

I haven't needed their help yet.

For source control, I've used SVN Tortoise before. TFS is more useful, organized and user-friendly.

Straightforward. Usually no issues being encountered when setting up.

We used a vendor team from Microsoft.

• Product backlog
• Work items (Features, User Stories, Bugs, Tasks)

We transitioned into an agile software development shop around 2010. Using TFS allowed us to document our requirements as Features and User Stories on a Product Backlog, which allows all team members to access them at the same time. They can see updates and changes to them in real-time. It also supports our iteration-based development approach effectively, by allowing us to group features, and user stories into iterations, as well as forecast upcoming user stories into future iterations.

I've been using it for five years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Previously we primarily used a waterfall software development methodology, so our move to TFS coincided with a reorganization we went through into an agile shop.

From a project/requirements perspective, transitioning into TFS was fairly straightforward. Instead of creating requirements documents for upcoming projects, functionality was documented as Features and User Stories in TFS. There was a learning curve for the organization as a whole who didn’t have much agile experience to be able to document and read requirements as user stories.

• Agile project management
• Requirements management
• Team management
• Source code management
• Testing software
• Deployment and test automation

• Reduced cost of software implementation and testing processes by automation
• Streamlined the software development process so that we could deliver high quality software in short time to the market

I've been using it for five to six years.

Sometimes, but Microsoft support was always awesome.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Customer Service:

It's superb.

Technical Support:

It's superb.

It is simple and well documented.

We did it in-house.

Just go for it. It is amazing.

TFS is a very Easy to use product,, Scalable and Configurable. It is very well integrated into a native development environment , with massive reporting services. TFS helps not only to manage R&D groups but to easily create , change and implement work processes rapidly. TFS provides end to end Application Life Cycle management capabilities ,

It is windows only product

We chose TFS because it was the native choice for .Net development. Although in the bank there are other ALM products (separated for bugs, demands, deployments), we insisted on using a complete one solution for our new development projects, and as for now, TFS is doing its way to become a mainstream product for .Net based develoment projects.

Versioning and seamless integration with Visual Studio are the features I like most.

We have had to recall a prior “production-ready” version to provide as a temporary solution.

History view outlining edits by user would be a nice addition.

I've been using it for four years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

I've not used it specifically for TFS.

We previously used SourceSafe.

It's straightforward.

It was done as an in-house implementation.

TFS was recommended by outside vendors as well as in-house staff. No other products were evaluated

I am an end-user, using this solution to assign tasks for my development team.

The most valuable feature is simplicity. It's very easy.

It's simple to design and it's straightforward. This is an advantage for TFS.

They should have design patterns in TFS for the development team, and design patterns for the QA. QA around the world basically does the same thing, and also development. Similar to Scrum, they should have something already built-in.

I would like to see templates for design added, and the option to make it more complicated.

I have been using this solution for five years.

This is a scalable solution. I have plans to increase usage.

I worked with Jira two years ago. As a product, Jira is better but it's much more complex. It is hard to design but after that, it's easy to use.

It was already in place when I arrived. I was not a part of the initial setup or the deployment.

It's a good product and it's fulfilled all that I want it to do.

I recommend this product. If you are looking for something simple, TFS is what you should use. If you are looking for a more complex solution then I would suggest going with Jira.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

It's an integrated system that includes all the information that we need to deliver our products smoothly and to track the progress of each piece of code.

It's one continuous integrated solution that includes the code. We can put all of our work from tasks with cases and user tool requirements.

The dashboard needs more enhancements.

More than five years.