The honest answer is rarely “move everything”. It is one of three, and only one of them involves paying anyone.
Move from Team Foundation Server or Azure DevOps Server to GitHub. Migration services covering code history preservation, workflow transformation, security configuration, and team capability building.
Delivered through timeboxed retainer engagement with full risk reversal. Capacity retained until migration completes.
Migration services address the technical transformation and the capability gap. You get code history preserved, modernised workflows, security configuration, and team enablement for GitHub-native development.
Services focus on creating the conditions for better delivery, not just platform changes.
The honest answer is rarely “move everything”. It is one of three, and only one of them involves paying anyone.
The most common honest outcome. Repos, and often pipelines, move to GitHub. Boards stays in Azure DevOps and keeps what GitHub has no home for: process templates, portfolio backlogs, test plans, and the compliance evidence built on them. The two are linked end to end.
Everything moves. Work items forced into GitHub Issues lose hierarchy, custom fields, and process structure, and test plans have no GitHub equivalent at all. Sometimes those losses are acceptable — the point is to accept them on purpose, in writing, before the move.
If Boards is load-bearing for your process and compliance, and your developers’ actual complaint is solvable with integration rather than migration, then GitHub is not yet earning its disruption. That is a legitimate answer, it costs nothing, and we will give it when it is true.
Microsoft’s free path for moving repositories from Azure DevOps Services to GitHub Enterprise Cloud while your teams keep working. It re-points your Azure Pipelines at the new repository and creates the Boards connection. It is currently in limited preview with a sign-up.
It moves the layer that was always the easy part. What happens to work items, the test plans your auditors ask about, and the pipelines that reference everything is the move around it.
Led by Martin Hinshelwood, Microsoft MVP with deep specialisation in Azure DevOps, TFS, and GitHub migrations. Services focus on building capability, not dependency.
Full Git transformation maintaining complete code history, not just latest versions. Migration approach handles complex repository structures and branching patterns.
Repositories are the part that moves cleanly. Work items forced into GitHub Issues lose hierarchy, custom fields, and process structure, and test plans have no GitHub equivalent at all. Those losses are named and agreed before you commit, not discovered afterwards. Often the honest answer is a hybrid: repositories move, Boards stays.
Real-world migration experience includes:
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NKD Agility has led DevOps migration and consolidation engagements for global organisations with hundreds of teams, thousands of repositories, and complex legacy structures.
Experience includes consolidating 27 Azure DevOps collections across 800+ teams, migrating 90 teams across 13 countries to unified source control, and handling custom processes at enterprise scale.
Migration services delivered through timeboxed retainer engagement. You retain capacity, not hours. No hourly billing, no fixed deliverables, no change orders.
Full risk reversal: satisfaction guaranteed with refund if service doesn’t meet expectations. Upfront payment with full refund if not satisfied.
Start with a migration assessment. For a GitHub move it answers the scoping question first: what is in the estate, which layers can move cleanly, what the losses would be, and what order holds delivery together. The plan is yours either way, including when its conclusion is “hybrid” or “stay”.
If a GitHub move is already half done — repos in one place, work items in another, and nobody sure what got lost on the way — that is a migration rescue.
GitHub migration services that preserve code history, modernise workflows, and build capability.
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