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All You Need To Know About Microsoft Azure DevOps and Atlassian Jira

July 21, 2023
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Azure DevOps and Jira are both very popular and powerful tools used by developers and teams across the world for daily work management processes.

Atlassian Jira is a powerful and widely-used project management and issue-tracking tool. It is designed to help teams plan, track, and manage their work efficiently, particularly in Agile and software development environments. Jira is flexible and can be adapted to various project management methodologies, making it a popular choice for teams in diverse industries.

On the other hand, Azure DevOps is a more extensive tool designed to streamline the entire software development lifecycle, promoting collaboration, automation, and continuous delivery. Azure DevOps offers a unified platform with a suite of tools that enables development teams to plan, build, test, and deploy applications efficiently.

Let's do a quick comparison of both tools

This is not an exhaustive list, more details can be found on each products website.

Why Choose One when you can have both

Microsoft Azure DevOps and Atlassian Jira are very powerful tools with features that help development teams successfully build products and manage their processes. While having different functionalities and strong points, many teams have found that the best way to get the most out of both platforms is to employ the CI/CD features of Azure DevOps while using the extensive project management features of Jira to drive their agile processes successfully.

Azure DevOps for Jira is an application by Move Work Forward, that helps teams track their development process, with the integration your team can follow closely on Jira every linked branch, commits, pull request and merges made on Azure DevOps. Here’s a demo to see how it works

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