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Agile Manager [EOL] vs Jira comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Agile Manager [EOL]
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Jira
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
284
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (1st), Application Requirements Management (2nd), Project Management Software (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user739560 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior manager IT at a transportation company
Handles user stories well but the lack of a testing module is a problem
Right now I can't say because other stuff is being migrated to Octane. But basically, the testing module that we are used to, that wasn't there at all. If they would have added that into it then they wouldn't even need to build Octane. We did have a list of items we wanted to see added but now they are moving all those things to Octane, and we are also interested in Octane now, so we are not looking to request any more changes to AGM, understanding that this is the go-to tool.
RituRaj - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE 2 at Virtusa
Centralized sprint boards have transformed our planning and now improve cross‑team visibility
While Jira is very powerful, there are definitely areas it could be improved, especially for usability and simplicity. One common challenge is that Jira can feel overwhelming for new users. The number of features, configurations, workflows, and settings is huge. Onboarding non-technical teams or new employees sometimes takes longer than expected. A simple default experience for a beginner would help a lot. Another issue is performance. In large organizations with heavy customizations, large backlogs, or complex dashboards, Jira can occasionally feel slow, especially when loading filters, reports, or larger boards. Pricing can also become expensive as an organization scales and multiple Atlassian products and plugins are added. Some smaller teams sometimes feel the ecosystem becomes costly over time. The mobile experience would be smoother for project managers or leadership users who mainly want quick update approvals or dashboard views on the go. Overall, Jira's biggest strength is flexibility, but that flexibility can also create complexity if not managed carefully. Improving simplicity, performance, and ease of adoption would make the platform even stronger. An additional improvement I would mention for Jira is around balancing flexibility with simplicity. Jira gives organizations a huge amount of customization power, which is great. But over time, many teams end up creating overly complicated processes. After a few years, some Jira environments become difficult to maintain because there are many workflows, custom fields, permissions, and automations layered on top of each other. It would help if Jira would provide a strong built-in recommendation or health check for keeping a project clean or efficient. For example, identifying unused custom fields, suggesting workflow simplicity improvements, flagging redundant automations, or recommending dashboard optimization.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"You can pretty much tie in from your requirements all the way through your entire application lifecycle management, and we are able to achieve that using this solution."
"It really doesn't need to be as flexible as some other solutions because it's right out of the box, it's relatively easy to use."
"It has a good sprint task board with the ability to export tasks to Excel and filter by team member, and all the graphs, burndown charts and reporting are user friendly and quick."
"Dashboard with release level graphs; it is so easy to gather the progress made at the release with these graphs rather going through each team’s backlogs."
"It is helping us organize and manage our agile development process to get solutions to market faster."
"Now we can do shorter cycles and have better traceability, and we have this integration between AGM and ALM, as I said."
"With all of the different features, it's really user-friendly and syncs with Quality Center ALM, which is our testing tool."
"The product is really easy to use and manage single discrete projects with dedicated teams."
"Confluence is now our single source of truth and, in general, we are using it in much more content-based projects."
"What I like about this product is how you can manage from the project to the deployment, even using Bamboo or using Bitbucket."
"The solution, for the most part, offers good usability."
"The most valuable feature of Jira is the reporting feature, which allows us to track our team's tasks."
"I like that Jira allows you to customize the flow for an agile process and adapt it to your own flow."
"It boosts productivity tremendously by eliminating the chaos between development and QA."
"The timeline management is great and the dashboard allows me to see the performance of everyone working for the company."
"This product is absolutely easy to use and does its job perfectly."
 

Cons

"The tool is good enough to keep track of the information, but not mature enough to have a great Dashboard that tracks all levels of changes."
"This one kind of caught us by surprise, and all our evaluations from it doing demos to the team that was going to be using it."
"Downtime was frequent initially, but now it is much better."
"I think the biggest issues that I've seen, and this is a personal view of mine, is that most of the HPE products have a common look and feel to them."
"We've not used it yet, and we're just kind of muddling through."
"It requires a lot of post-process testing of our products. It would be an improvement if those tests weren't necessary."
"There is definitely a maturity curve that Agile Manager needs to go through with. It's still not there, and it definitely needs to grow."
"Most of the enhancement requests we have are minor, but the biggest challenge we have is around integrations."
"I have had problems with performance and unresponsiveness. All of a sudden, the performance slowed down, and I had a number of users that could not use the tool."
"It would be very useful to have drag and drop time tracking."
"The UX and UI could be better. It's something they need to improve upon."
"The only complaint I have about Jira is that there is no field-level permission for the issues in the Jira cloud version."
"In general, it is not user-friendly. For a non-technical person to use, Jira is not intuitive."
"I would like to see more integration available with more tools."
"I want the tool to integrate connectors."
"A lot of features, such as time tracking, are only available through the marketplace. If multiple users are working on a user story, we aren't able to pull out the reports. So, there are many things that they aren't offering. They are available only through the marketplace. That's not good for a product."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price of Jira is reasonable."
"There is a monthly license required for this solution and it is expensive."
"When you get larger, the pricing becomes very, very steep."
"Jira and its solution off the shelf are cheap. It is cheap for startups."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable."
"If I compare Jira's licensing model with that of other products, I think that the other products have a much better licensing model."
"I don't feel that price is an issue."
"The price of the solution could be lower."
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
21%
Healthcare Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Transportation Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business108
Midsize Enterprise60
Large Enterprise155
 

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Is Jira better or would you go with Micro Focus ALM Octane?
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Which is better - Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Jira is a great centralized tool for just about everything, from local team management to keeping track of products and work logs. It is easy to implement and navigate, and it is stable and scalabl...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jira?
Jira is a good tool and it is not that expensive. The setup cost is pretty straightforward and the onboarding is smooth.
 

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