The Challenge

Our organization has maintained a large monolithic codebase in Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) for over a decade. As development velocity has increased and teams have moved toward agile methodologies, microservices, and cloud-native architectures, the limitations of TFVC have become increasingly apparent. The centralized version control model hinders collaboration, branching, and automation, and our existing classic build and release pipelines in TFS are tightly coupled with legacy tooling that no longer aligns with modern DevOps practices. 

We have observed significant bottlenecks in: