TFS Reviews

• 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.

• Version control
• Project management
• Test management
• Release management

• Agile project management
• Enterprise level development
• Testing of large enterprise applications

Test case management could be improved.

For over 12 years now.

Nope. The product is very stable.

Nope. The product is absolutely scalable for use in large enterprise companies.

10 out of 10 is the technical support that I have received from Microsoft.

We used VSS earlier, then switched to the TFS product.

Setup has very specific documentation that needs to be followed 'exactly', and it's straight forward.

Microsoft changes licensing and pricing every year. Best thing to do is reach out to their licensing/sales folks for the latest info.

Yes, Perforce and Git were evaluated, but we wanted a single solution for the entire SDLC. This product fit the bill.

It's an outstanding product, but needs technically qualified people to administer this product.

We have a DevOps team and we primarily use TFS for bug tracking.

The current dashboard has limited report charts, We need more in reporting as charts are not enough to represent project full stat.

Addition to that, configuring reporting service require a SQL report server, which is anextra cost and need allot of effort to build

The most valuable features are test case writing and bug tracking.

The reporting functionality is something that they should work on.

The dashboards can be improved.

Migrating from version to version should be easier.

I have been working with TFS for four years.

The stability is good and I would recommend it based on that.

This is a scalable product. We have more than 50 users.

I have worked with similar solutions, albeit a long time back. Visual SourceSafe was one of them and it is now discontinued. We switched to TFS as part of an upgrade.

The initial setup is straightforward.

We have one or two people who are responsible for maintenance.

We pay subscription fees on a yearly basis and the price is reasonable.

In summary, this is a good product and I strongly recommend it. If the reporting were enhanced then it would be even better.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

On-premises