A lot of Azure DevOps confusion starts before the first pipeline even runs.
Teams open the portal, create a few repos, maybe a couple of boards, and keep moving. That works for a while. Then a few months later, nobody is fully sure which project owns what, where the shared code should live, or whether a new team should create another project or just add one more repo somewhere random.
That is usually not a tooling problem.
It is a structure problem.
If your Azure DevOps layout is clean, permissions stay easier to manage, pipelines stay easier to reason about, and new developers can understand the system faster.
