Make management your number one priority. Be the place that can provide managers with code metrics and analytics, that GitHub can't. That seems to be Microsoft

Make management your number one priority. Be the place that can provide managers with code metrics and analytics, that GitHub can't. That seems to be Microsoft's approach with Visual Studio Team Services. Whereas Github seems to be focused on code, VSTS is more focused on integrating every step of software development, with version control, work item tracking, continuous integration, etc, all living in one integrated package. Now, this means that the version control aspect of it isn't as good as that of Github's. But, the issue tracking is far superior, and you don't really need to invest in learning separate software (like Travis or Jenkins, or what-have-you) in order to get continuous integration working.