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At work, we host ADO onsite, but are moving towards hosting on the MS cloud. For my personal projects, I've always used the MS cloud.
/ravi
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Just want to add that it's been renamed to 'Azure DevOps'. 
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Yes, that's what I meant by ADO (not to be confused with this[^]).
/ravi
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There are some additional differences; e.g. server includes the ability to use categories (ways of grouping projects) whilst services just has the default category.
That said; unless you have a good reason, going cloud is far better (normally I'm not a preacher for SaaS as I like the ability to be able to get into the DB to do reporting/investigations/data fixes where the UI doesn't allow easy access)... You only have a small team, so running up a dedicated server for this product, managing backups, keeping on top of patching, etc will all waste a lot of time and money given you can get all of that for free. You can also integrate it with your AAD or IdP if you want extra security (e.g. to help avoid leavers retaining access to the system) though even without that, it'll probably still be more secure than your on-prem servers unless you're really on top of security.
Also - are you using source control today / if so what do you use for that; as there may be offerings that integrate better with your source control system which could better inform answers to your question.
If not - that's the more important issue than the software you use to manage work items. Again, generally I don't believe in universal rules; but there's no good justification for not using some form of source control.
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It is free for 5 people, but those using licensed VS also get free access I believe. So those using VS with Azure DevOps don't count to the 5 person limit for free access. At least that is my understanding...
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This option is definitely on the table 
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The best I've used so far is Trac[^] but everybody uses JIRA nowadays...
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MS Project. Includes scheduling. Costing.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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You could create a “tracking” folder in your SVN where you check in a text or markdown file along with the changes. Have a standard template that you clone. Consider simple http header like format for searching via regex.
It will be committed on the same revision with the changes.
If you have your work files on an SSD this would be viable for 10,000+ commits or so (for searching)
Create project/epic/yearly sub folders to help organize if desired.
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One of my school's group projects was to create a small project. We named it TrackIt. I still have the Slack team setup.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Put a TODO comment in the code :P
But be sure to add a description 
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It's much more fun and sportsmanlike to omit the description...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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I am a fan of the JetBrains Tools and therefore we (3 dev's) use JetBrains YouTrack.
It's on premise, free for 10 Dev's and you can but do not have to use the complete functionality with timereporting and so on.
Additionally if you may later want that you could directly connect their tool for code reviews, the build server application for CI and the so called HUB as the main manager for logins and projects.
But as far as i know you'd get most of this also by gitLab, which i think should also be free up to a certain amount?
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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Try Gitea gitea | Gitea[^] a self hosted github clone.
Exception up = new Exception("Something is really wrong.");
throw up;
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We are using Gitea on a Windows server with a PostgreSQL database for years now and it's very stable.
If you don't want to self-host it, there is a free hosted version: Codeberg[^]
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I'll add another 👍 for Gitea - dead easy to install and administer (I connected it to our AD domain in about 2 minutes) and pretty simple to use too.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Redmine has a free version, usable for comemrcial purpose.
It's not wonderful but it works.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Trello.
Don't skip just yet (:
- describe the issue and fixes on a card - have entire conversations there if you like
- cards can have custom fields - so you end up with a drop-down on the card for stuff like priority, classification
- search your board any time for text on cards or people associated with those cards (probably on custom fields too - I have never tried)
- the ability to place cards in lanes such as "incoming", "triaged", "work in progress", "fixed", "deployed" and associate board members with cards
- SVN integration is one I'm not sure about - we link pull requests, branches, etc from Github there, so I guess if your SVN server exposes a web interface, you could deep-link to commits and files
Trello is really simple to use and can be expanded upon with power-ups as you need them. The company I work at, for instance, wrote email integration so you can use Trello like a help-desk or customer queries queue: you mail the associated address, the power-up creates cards, and comments on cards are mailed back to the people involved (it's called SendBoard and has a free tier, if you want to give it a go)
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If you say that getting the money
is the most important thing
You will spend your life
completely wasting your time
You will be doing things
you don't like doing
In order to go on living
That is, to go on doing things
you don't like doing
Which is stupid.
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Since leaving IT and now have zero budget for real stuff, I just use Excel. It works, but probably only because we are a "team" of 2
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So what do you do nowadays?
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I retired for a couple of years, then applied to a local firm as a VBA "Developer" (quotes mine). The intention was to take it easy but still have an income to pay for my love of travel.
Once they found out I used to work in IT and was quite handy with SQL, I ended up with more and more "technical" stuff. Now I'm in a small, multi-skilled business-side team that advises on Process Improvement, RPA Automation, Insights & MI as well best use of Office tools, Power suite and general geekiness I did manage to get SSMS installed - probably because it's free - but long gone are the days of being able to knock something up in C#. Can't even use any of the scripting languages as I'm not on the white list 
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