Application Development with Azure DevOps

At CPS, we're all about making application development a breeze with Microsoft Azure DevOps.

Azure DevOps is a powerhouse suite of tools and services that supports the entire software lifecycle. From planning and developing to delivering and monitoring applications, it’s got you covered.

With integrated tools for software delivery and development, Azure DevOps boosts code quality, fosters collaboration, and speeds up the delivery of continuous value to users.

What is Azure DevOps?

Azure DevOps is designed to empower teams to collaborate, plan, and deliver software solutions with great speed and agility. It covers the entire software development lifecycle, from initial planning and development to rigorous testing and seamless deployment.

By leveraging Azure DevOps, teams can work together more effectively, automate repetitive processes, and deliver high-quality software faster. This suite of tools and services is essential for any development team looking to enhance their productivity and streamline their workflows.

Supporting Your Business

In today’s fast-paced IT world, you need to plan, collaborate, and ship faster and more regularly – all with a set of modern development services.

That’s where CPS and Microsoft Azure DevOps come in to help your organisation harness the benefits of modern ways of working. Azure DevOps offers robust project management features, including agile reports like backlog overviews and sprint burndown charts, which are essential for effective management and keeping stakeholders in the loop. Project managers play a crucial role in this collaborative framework, integrating both devops process and project processes to schedule and manage work items effectively.

Changing the way you work through a DevOps approach can help you deliver better products to your customers and better results for your business.

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Adopting DevOps needs careful consideration and planning. It's not just about new processes and technology; it's about embracing a DevOps culture.

Why Us?

At CPS, we’re all about making application dev a breeze with Microsoft Azure DevOps. We cut through the noise to streamline your process, ensuring everything runs smoothly from start to finish.

By integrating Microsoft SQL Server, we leverage its architecture and scalability features to enhance data storage, scalability, and reporting capabilities. With Azure DevOps, we deliver apps that are not just robust and secure, but also super scalable to fit your unique needs. Our team works closely with you to understand what you want and bring your vision to life.

With CPS, you get top-notch apps backed by the power and reliability of Microsoft Azure DevOps. Let’s build something awesome together!

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A DevOps Approach

With a DevOps approach, your organisation can:

Empower teams to work agilely with full visibility across products and projects.
Implement continuous delivery and integration using Azure DevOps and Azure Pipelines to automate and optimise application delivery, ensuring high-quality, consistent code across environments.
Manage work seamlessly with Kanban boards, backlogs, dashboards, and reporting in Azure Boards.
Keep development efforts transparent and on schedule with GitHub.
Turn data into insights with Power BI analytics and visuals.
Extend capabilities with thousands of Microsoft and community-built apps and services.

Common Problems Solved

Here are some common problems that can be effectively solved using Azure DevOps. These solutions can help address common challenges and improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of your Azure DevOps workflows.

Integration Issues	Azure Boards in Azure DevOps can break down large projects into manageable tasks using Azure Boards' Kanban boards, backlogs, and dashboards.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Challenges	Automate testing and deployment with Azure Pipelines, reducing errors and speeding up feature delivery.
Collaboration and Communication	Azure DevOps' collaboration tools facilitate communication between team members. Enhance team communication with collaboration tools like pull requests and code reviews.
Monitoring and Reporting	zure DevOps' monitoring and reporting tools allow you to track project progress and identify issues early.

Key Features

Azure Boards

Product owners, stakeholders and developers can track work items from idea to release, using visual (Kanban) boards to plan and display progress in real-time.

Azure Repos

Developers can write, commit, and share code with other team members effortlessly, tracking code changes to work items for greater transparency.

Azure Artefacts

Developers can use Azure Artifacts to share common code between projects, reducing the need to re-write code for each project.

Azure Pipelines

Using automated CI/CD pipelines, operations can manage deployments to environments and add quality gates to ensure code quality and service uptime before changes are introduced.

Azure Tests

Teams can organise manual and automated tests in a single place, sharing test plans with developers, operations, and stakeholders.

Azure Team Projects

A suite of cloud services designed to promote collaboration between cross-functional teams, providing a workspace to track work, share code, run automated tests, deploy code, and share common code packages across teams.

Version Control and Collaboration

Azure DevOps is a game-changer for version control and collaboration in modern software development.

With Azure Repos, your team gets unlimited, cloud-hosted private Git repositories, making it super easy to work together on code and also have source control functions. Everyone can chip in efficiently, with full visibility into code changes and history.

Plus, Azure Boards offers powerful tools for planning and tracking work, so managing tasks and projects is a breeze. By integrating Azure Pipelines, you can automate the build, test, and deployment processes, ensuring your software is always ready to go.

These features collectively boost the collaboration and efficiency of dev teams.

On-Premises Solution with Azure DevOps Server

For teams that need more control over their data and security, Azure DevOps Server is the perfect on-premises solution.

This version of Azure DevOps lets organisations host their own instance on their local network, providing the same robust features and functionality as Azure DevOps Services. With Azure DevOps Server, you get all the benefits of Azure DevOps while keeping full control over your infrastructure and data.

This is especially great for organisations with strict security requirements or those in regulated industries. Azure DevOps Server ensures that teams can collaborate effectively and securely within their own environment.

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Supporting Change

Adopting DevOps needs careful consideration and planning. It’s not just about new processes and technology; it’s about embracing a DevOps culture.

Cultural change takes patience, especially for companies that have been doing things differently for years. Azure DevOps supports controlled and efficient workflows for releases to production environments, ensuring teams can monitor progress and automate the deployment process effectively.

CPS can help you at every stage of changing your working methods, from understanding what and how you can change, to fully managing a programme of adoption.