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this week I participated a presentation of the 2008 TFS. Currently we are using Jira and Svn (and maybe Bamboo). What solution to you prefer?
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So what is the final verdict on which of these ALM tools are better – Jira or TFS? Thanks to its support for third-party plugins and other tools, Jira is generally more popular than TFS. Additionally, being an open-source tool, Jira is widely used for project management and issue tracking.
TFS is engaged in a process management tool, whereas Jira is a minor problem tracking tool. Many TFS features, such as source control and automated builds, are not supported in Jira, and we must use Bamboo or BitBucket for source control repositories.
If you're just using TFS for source control and nothing else (which, btw, is overkill in the same way as chartering a jet to go pick up fast food), then you're better off with smaller solutions that just does source control (SVN, etc). TFS is an "Application Lifecycle Management" (ALM) tool, and incorporates a ton of additional functionality:
It's not really fair to compare it against tools that just do source control - TFS will appear cumbersome and expensive if you do. There are tools out there that can be used to do all these things, and they even integrate well together in most cases, but especially if your devs are all using Visual Studio (and there's always http://www.teamprise.com/ if some aren't) and you have some Sharepoint knowledge in-house, and ESPECIALLY if your devs have MSDN licenses (MSDN includes a CAL for TFS, so you only need to buy the server license), TFS can't be beat.
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