TFS Scalability

CarlBrown - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Engineering at Vertex Downhole Ltd

So far, so good. We've had one external developer consultant that had to come in and access it as well, and that went well. I don't have any gauge about how it would be for a team of 50 developers. The hardware we're running on it right now probably wouldn't be enough, but I don't feel that it wouldn't be able to scale to a larger number of developers. From a security model perspective and from a functionality perspective, it seems to have all the features to be scalable. I just don't know about the performance. That's all.

Currently, there are five of us who work with this solution. We have one project manager and four developers. We have one firmware developer who does not work in the Visual Studio environment. This firmware developer works in a microchip MPLAB X environment. All other developers work in the Visual Studio development world. So, it's more integrated, but both roles work. The same people also take care of its maintenance.

From a source code management perspective, it is being used very extensively. From a build server perspective, it is used extensively. We don't do release management with it, and we don't have integrated automated testing turned on in it as well. Those are two fairly large areas of functionality that we don't use currently. We may in the future, but we're not using them right now. We're using about 60% of the functionality.

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Thomas Bradley - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Hundreds of users in our organization use TFS.

I rate TFS a nine or ten out of ten for scalability.

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PALAK SURI - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Eurofins

The solution is scalable, and we haven't faced any issues with TFS except for some conflicts we can resolve using the merge tool. We have about 50 to 60 people using TFS. We have about eight people working on our support team.

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March 2024
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Muhammad Qasim - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Diyar United Company

It is a scalable solution since TFS offers users a very good system, hardware, and efficient people to implement their tool. It is a very scalable software. Also, the scalability of software depends upon its hardware, and they provide very robust hardware.

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Ashish-Kamat - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Wipro

It's absolutely scalable. If you are planning for a high availability environment, then you can definitely have a backup environment as well. Then if something goes wrong with your primary server, there is always a backup available, which you can always use.

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VenkateshK4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Transformation Specialist at Technovert

TFS is a scalable solution.

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Sandla Jaxa - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Application Developer at Engen

We have approximately 10 people using the solution in my department. We might increase our usage of the solution. However, it is depending on if we add more users and if we receive authorization. We are focusing on accessing Azure Development, such as the task catalog that we have. There are developers who have full access to create and manage them.

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AM
IT Manager at Agricultural Bank of Egypt

I rate the tool's scalability an eight out of ten.

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PJ
TitleSpecial Education Teacher at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

It was able to scale to meet our needs. It also allowed us to do our customization. I'm not sure if that ended up being a good thing, but it did allow us to do what we wanted it to do.

We have about 150 users, and they're developers, FQA, software quality engineers, business analysts, user experience team members, and architects. For its deployment and maintenance, in general, there are four or five people. They are from the DevOps team.

We don't plan to expand its usage. We're transitioning to Jira.

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AK
Project Manager at Duck Creek Technologies

It can be scaled to some extent. The main issue is that, unlike Jira or any other tool, the burndown chart is not displayed.

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HS
Senior Soft Engineer at SECP

The solution is scalable, however, we do not need to scale because we do not have many people on each team. The administration part requires three or four people, and for development teams, we have about 15 team members who actively use VS Code.

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Sanjay Patankar - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at Godrej Infotech Ltd.

It's scalable. We have around 45 users.

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JA
Lead Automation Architect at Contour

TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools.

We have more than 200 users using this solution.

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Neetu Majumdar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable. 

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Kumar Rajan - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Havells

TFS is scalable because it is managed by Microsoft internally. 

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AR
Senior Microservice/Cloud Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Ashu Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior quality analyst at Lalli

My company has more than 50 users. 

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Reza Sadeghi - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Team Lead at asa com

It's a scalable solution. We have 100 users in our organization.

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it_user371505 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager, Automation Testing Architect at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

For large organizations with more than 200+ concurrent users, there can be some scalability issues.

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SS
Microsoft Azure Net Microservices Senior Cloud Architect at Agilysys

It is a scalable solution. Presently, twenty to thirty users are using the solution. 

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OA
Principal consultant at Bdl

TFS' scalability is quite good. My company has 25 users. 

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RC
Vice President at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We have encountered no issues with the solution's scalability. 

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AmrEL Tahan - PeerSpot reviewer
Software QA Lead at Ajman Municipality

The scalability of TFS is good.

We have approximately 50 people from our IT teams that are using the solution in my company.

I rate the scalability of TFS a six out of ten.

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it_user873726 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior programming analyst at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

It's completely scalable.

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Somayeh Ghanavati Nasab - PeerSpot reviewer
React Developer at Rayvarz Software Engineering Company

I would rate the scalability a six out of ten. Sometimes, a lot of branches get mixed together, making it difficult to use. I remember struggling with these branch management issues some time ago and even wrote about them. It is so hard to review problems in TFS.

There are around 200 end users using this solution in our organization. 

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AK
Head of IT Business Analysis at Kemin Industries, Inc.

It's scalable.

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Kumar Rajan - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Havells

This is not a scalable product. We have about 35 users in our company.

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it_user718215 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP, DevOps Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

No. However, my user base has always been relatively small:100–200 users.

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KK
Asst. Vice president, Applications Architecture at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

TFS is quite scalable and there are different deployment options that are available. I don't see any problems with scalability. We have between 40 and 45 people in my department who are using TFS.

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it_user491649 - PeerSpot reviewer
SVP Development Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues have been noticed in scalability.

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SJ
Director of Engineering and Principal Analyst (Consulting) at Hobu Online

The solution's scalability is a six or seven.

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MohammadHussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

TFS is a very scalable product.

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MI
Application Developer at Saudi Credit Information Co. J.S.C.

The scalability of the solution is very good. If a company needs to expand outwards and grow they should be able to fairly easily. We've had not trouble with that aspect of the solution.

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PB
Senior IT Professional at Novabase

This solution has some scalability.

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VR
Technical Delivery manager at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

TFS is not that scalable compared to Jira. It's scalable at the story level and at the project level but in the grand scheme of things, it's hard to manage it from an entire product perspective. 

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it_user1138779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

This solution is scalable and it is simple. 

From my experience, we have loaded a lot of work and we have several branches.

We have perhaps one hundred users, but in my team specifically, we have eight users who are engineers, testers, and a few managers.

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it_user303018 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Leader at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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BW
Specialist in IT Security at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a scalable solution. I rate its scalability eight out of ten.

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TA
Process Manager at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I have no issues with the scalability. It is fine. 

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RW
Senior Programmer at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

I have never run into any limitations. We have three individuals in my department using the solution and another six using it in the IT department.

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KK
Agile Coach at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is possible to scale, albeit tricky. There are between 2,000 and 3,000 users.

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TT
Senior Developer

No, but I have never worked in a big company with many developers or projects.

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CC
Software Architect with 501-1,000 employees
it_user298089 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director, Development at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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US
Senior Manager, Information Technology at a university with 201-500 employees

The scalability of TFS is good.

We have approximately 200 users using this solution in my organization.

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RK
Microsoft and Dev-ops Architect at Mphasis
RK
Microsoft and Dev-ops Architect at Mphasis
it_user679293 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I didn't encounter issues with scalability.

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JS
Business Analyst, Data Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is a scalable solution. Our company has 1,300 employees, although there are only between 50 and 100 who use TFS.

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it_user710526 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Specialist Team Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I am not involved in this aspect of TFS’ evaluation.

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it_user1375878 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

TFS is a scalable model. If I have to look into large projects, we have multiple agile teams having different backlogs. Having a view on this is rather scalable.

We have approximately 28 users for this current project, and we are using it on a daily basis.

We plan to keep using TFS.

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it_user719787 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Manager with 5,001-10,000 employees
it_user305100 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Department Projects at Pasiona

No issues encountered.

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it_user323880 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Developer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user289659 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Quality Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user738723 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We are using a single server deployment with more than 150 projects and never had any issues. Of course, some pre- and post-installation optimization has to be done like SQL Server, etc.

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it_user711930 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Lead

No, it is very easy to scale it up.

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it_user231201 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
it_user354774 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user469371 - PeerSpot reviewer
Development Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user302907 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user298437 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user293892 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst Practice Lead at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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CC
Software Architect with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user288372 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead SharePoint Developer with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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ZG
Founder and CEO at CreaTech

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

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RK
IT Manager 2, Data Mgmt Tools at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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

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AE
Software QA Lead at Ajman Municipality

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

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PP
Solution Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability of the solution is good. There are 20 developers in my specific project who use TFS for storing the code repository. We work on multiple projects so there can be anywhere up to 25 people in the company using the product at any one time. It's a development tool so we use it on a daily basis as a centralized code repository.

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it_user542019 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Test Consultant / Automation Test Architect at a tech services company
it_user297138 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user289785 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user281970 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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SH
Sr Software QA Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user286836 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Engineering Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No issues encountered.

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KH
Program Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I have found the solution to be scalable. There are approximately ten people using the solution in my organization.

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it_user899448 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Quality Engineering Manager with 51-200 employees

I would rate scalability as a six out of 10.

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it_user718479 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No issues with scalability.

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it_user711909 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation Engineer

It can be used for a lot of web tests and Windows testing. I do API tests with Fiddler via MTM.

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it_user323955 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user736197 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Expert at a tech company with 51-200 employees
it_user740463 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT at a tech company with 51-200 employees
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TFS
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about TFS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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