We performed a comparison between IBM Engineering Workflow Management and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Good for managing stories, sprints, hydration and releases."
"We can track the status of test cases (passed or saved) in a single view. Based on releases and other attributes, we generate various reports and extract metrics from the data."
"Traceability reporting is inbuilt and includes all your requirements."
"Agile templates give us a standard methodology for every Agile project. Also, the ability to create our own object types and linkages to features/epics allows us to enhance the verification of feature readiness."
"Work distribution among team members and accountability for completion with a clearer picture."
"The most valuable features of the solution are highly customizable reports and visibility for all the higher management."
"All of the features work together to provide a powerful holistic solution - from the dashboard all the way through to security."
"The API for managing TFS programmatically is very powerful, you can listen on work items changes by TFS events."
"What I like the most is that you can set permissions on just one folder."
"It is very user-friendly."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"As far as queries are concerned, creating, grading, or customizing the queries as a primary requirement is very easy to do."
"It's user friendly. We haven't had any issues so far. It's flexible. If we need something, we can always contact the owner in our headquarters to make a configuration."
"Stability is okay."
"It is a stable solution."
"Some administrative tasks are difficult to perform. These could be simplified."
"Teams need clearer pictures of resource availability in charts and dashboards along with plans."
"Lacks ability to customize and reporting can be slow."
"The solution is very heavily vendor dependent."
"If you have multiple projects on one server, the tool becomes very slow, and some reports take longer to load."
"We have encountered issues with stability. We have seen where the entire system kind of goes for a toss when certain people use certain types of queries, which are very costly. Then the system kind of slows down a bit, and we have to monitor it."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
"The usability of TFS is not that great."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
"As an end-user, I expect the solution's performance to be faster while staying as stable as possible."
"The dashboard needs more enhancements."
"The user interface could be improved to make it simpler and increase usability."
"The solution's server for deployment needs to be improved."
"They have room for improvement in merging the source code changes for multiple developers across files. It is very good at highlighting the changes that the source code automatically does not know how to handle, but it's not very good at reporting the ones that it did automatically. There are times when we have source code that gets merged, and we lose the changes that we expected to happen. It can get a little confusing at times. They can just do a little bit better on the merging of changes for multiple developers."
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IBM Engineering Workflow Management is ranked 10th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 15 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews. IBM Engineering Workflow Management is rated 6.8, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Engineering Workflow Management writes "Offers good traceability elements but UI needs improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". IBM Engineering Workflow Management is most compared with Jira, Codebeamer, Microsoft Azure DevOps, GitLab and Polarion ALM, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, TestRail and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our IBM Engineering Workflow Management vs. TFS report.
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