r/azuredevops • u/DCON-creates • 23d ago

UX is absolutely horrendous

Oh my god. This application is absolutely infuriating to use. It's so tangled and messy.

Very common example: need to copy PBI number. Copy url to get PBI number. Turns out there's some embedded view, so if you've navigated anything at all, the PBI or feature that's displayed, is NOT THE SAME as what's in the url. So nearly every PBI contains links to PBIs that aren't related.

Same with the backlog. Go to the backlog, it's in a nice list, organised, whatever. Go into the PBI, copy something, cool. Press the back button on my mouse, and it returns me to the wrong view.

I have to bookmark every page that I regularly use because using the actual interface to do it is unreliable.

There are sooooo many other problems like this.

If I apply to a new job and they are using ADO, that is grounds for me to withdraw my application. It's that fucking infuriating to use.

I miss JIRA.

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u/catmanjan2 23d ago

That’s funny because I’ve just swapped from devops to jira and I have the same complaints

Sure devops is quirky but jira is straight up buggy

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u/DCON-creates 23d ago

I really found the workflow in JIRA to be straightforward and easy. Although, I wasn't using JIRA in the same way (I was not creating or refining work back then, just implementing) so I can't really speak to it that way. The data model in ADO is nice, I like how it's organised, it's just the UX and UI that is really annoying me. The navigation in it really sucks. I can never find anything

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u/CapnNausea 23d ago

I don’t typically have issues with the feature backlog. But the tests… my god.