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Technical Content Writer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Very user friendly and relieves the burden on our QA team
Pros and Cons
- "This is a user friendly solution."
- "This solution is easy to use and takes a lot of burden off the QA team."
- "Could be more stable with more integrations."
- "The technical support could be better, a little more customer friendly and knowledgeable."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
This solution is easy to use and takes a lot of burden off the QA team.
What needs improvement?
I'd like to see a more stable product with more integrations, as new products are coming on the market daily.
For how long have I used the solution?
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How are customer service and support?
The technical support could be better, a little more customer friendly and knowledgeable.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was quite straightforward. We had our technical team deal with it. We currently have around 25 people using the product.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We pay an annual licensing fee.
What other advice do I have?
I rate this solution an eight out of 10.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Excellent project management tool that offers multiple reporting charts; great user interface
Pros and Cons
- "Offers great multiple reporting charts."
- "I would definitely recommend this product because it's scalable and easy to use."
- "Integration with some of the automation tools could be improved."
- "They could probably improve the integration with some of the automation tools and provide a specialized user interface suitable to their requirements."
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case is for project management, guiding the teams in our company. The solution allows you to create Scrum boards to deliver all the acquired stories within the Scrum Sprints. It also adapts to any other Jive methodology, like Kanban, and helps the creation of roadmaps for the software, production and implementation. We use it for day-to-day tasks, managing our stories, assigning tasks to different developers, and even integrating it with other system control tools to link the story's details. We are customers of Jira.
What is most valuable?
The Jira user interface is really helpful because you can see the big picture regardless of what stage the task is at. You can define priorities and estimate times. If, for example, you're planning to move to Scrum, you need a project management tool; JIRA is perfect for that. It can also be used on personal projects because they offer a free plan with unlimited features to manage your project, define your backlog, and check the status of a project.
The solution comes with multiple reporting charts so you can see the sprint burndown chart and other information. We previously had our own internal tools for Scrum, and moving to Jira was a total upgrade. There's no need to create new accounts for your users. You integrate company emails with an internal server, grant the user access and with their company credentials, they can log into the platform. That's a pretty good feature.
What needs improvement?
They could probably improve the integration with some of the automation tools and provide a specialized user interface suitable to their requirements.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This is a very stable and reliable solution. The whole company uses it and we have around 500 employees. Our team adopted Jira recently but others in the company have been using it for a while.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Jira is very scalable and allows for the integration with source control tools.
How are customer service and technical support?
I haven't had to contact technical support.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward, we got access to it and started using it. They also provide you with documentation which helps if you are new to Scrum and new to the platform and features.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
There is an annual subscription fee based on the number of users. You can get a subscription for just 10 users, for small teams, and if you want more you can buy more. They have a standard and premium license.
What other advice do I have?
I would definitely recommend this product because it's scalable and easy to use. They provide best practice articles and quick start tutorials which are very helpful. If a new user has all the documentation, they can go from zero to hero very quickly.
I rate this solution a 10 out of 10.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Scalable, good functionality, and well structured
Pros and Cons
- "We have found the structure, functionality, and how Jira handles the tickets most valuable."
- "The performance could be improved in the future."
- "The technical support could be more responsive."
What is our primary use case?
We using this solution to handling all of our development and support tickets.
What is most valuable?
We have found the structure, functionality, and how Jira handles the tickets most valuable.
What needs improvement?
The performance could be improved in the future.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for approximately four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have had some issues with stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is good for what we are using it for. We have approximately 20 people using the solution in my organization and we plan to increase usage.
How are customer service and technical support?
The technical support could be more responsive.
What about the implementation team?
We have one technician handling the deployment of Jira in my organization.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
There is a monthly license required for this solution and it is expensive.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend this solution to others.
I rate Jira an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Project Management Officer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Great for creating tasks and tracking productivity of my development team
Pros and Cons
- "This product has been very helpful for me in terms of creating tasks and tracking my development team's productivity."
- "The support could be improved."
- "I think support could be improved, in particular it would be helpful having a login for the support team."
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case for JIRA is for project tracking to see where our development team productivity is.
What is most valuable?
This product has been very helpful for me in terms of creating tasks and tracking my development team's productivity.
What needs improvement?
I think support could be improved, in particular it would be helpful having a login for the support team.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using this solution for six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This solution is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
This solution is scalable.
How was the initial setup?
It was easy to deploy this locally, I'm not sure if it would be the same at enterprise level. We have nearly 300 users in the company.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I've tried some other solutions including Plenty, ClickUp and Azure. I feel that Jira is far better than these other solutions.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend this product for people who have agility.
I rate this solution an eight out of 10.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Technical Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Good reporting and visualizations, sprint tracking is helpful, simple and quick to set up
Pros and Cons
- "The sprint tracking is really helpful and very convenient."
- "Overall, this is a very good product and I think that it is the best project management tool."
- "Having more seamless integration with Confluence would really help us track our product management activity and other product details in one place."
What is our primary use case?
We use Jira every day for tasks like tracking product deployments, mapping it to the tools that we use, and sprint tracking. We also used it for audit purposes, where everybody goes back to that for details about each user story.
Each sprint tracking is done in there, as well as the other product-related activities
All aspects of Jira administration help with respect to QA development and deployment.
How has it helped my organization?
This solution allows us to use customized workloads for different projects.
What is most valuable?
The sprint tracking is really helpful and very convenient.
Scrum boards are very easy to follow and we use them every day.
The roadmap, to understand what our team is going, is quite helpful when it comes to understanding things in a visual format. It provides good visuals such as the Burnup Chart.
Requirement traceability is easier to do with this product.
It integrates well with other tools.
What needs improvement?
We have been working on integrating Jira with Confluence for the past months but it is not yet working. Having more seamless integration with Confluence would really help us track our product management activity and other product details in one place.
Integration with BitBucket would allow us to have a better deployment process.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Jira for between four and five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This product is very much stable, and we have every tracking option being used.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It scales well, from what we have seen. We have more than 350 users that are in groups, and perhaps another 150 in addition to that. We are onboarding a lot of teams.
How are customer service and technical support?
When I need support, I contact our in-house technical team. I have not spoken with anybody from outside the organization or anybody from Atlassian.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We were using the on-premises version until a year or two ago when we migrated to the cloud version.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was simple and it didn't take much time to complete.
What about the implementation team?
We have an in-house team to deploy and manage our IT solutions. There may have been some outside help initially but everything is now done in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We have an enterprise license that includes cloud service and support.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, this is a very good product and I think that it is the best project management tool. It is used company-wide and I recommend it.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Partner at Yushu
Stable and straightforward to install, and it provides a good view on the status of Agile projects
Pros and Cons
- "This product provides you a good view of the status of your projects."
- "This solution covers almost all of the types of uses that we have, from an Agile perspective, and all of our requirements are supported by it."
- "I think that there is some ease of use that could be brought in to improve certain things."
- "When I was managing projects that started from epics and moved to multiple tasks, I found that the integration of epics and user stories could have been a little easier."
What is our primary use case?
When you are engaged in an Agile development environment, most of the handling and tracking of the stories are handled in Jira. It can also be used for handling and tracking requests in a ticketing system.
I am a consultant from the quality and design part of the work that we do, and I help people introduce tools into their system. Currently, I am only working with one customer that is using Jira. In the past, I have had five or six who were actively using it.
What is most valuable?
This solution covers almost all of the types of uses that we have, from an Agile perspective. All of our requirements are supported by it.
This product provides you a good view of the status of your projects.
What needs improvement?
When I was managing projects that started from epics and moved to multiple tasks, I found that the integration of epics and user stories could have been a little easier. I've seen people struggling to use that aspect of Jira. I think that there is some ease of use that could be brought in to improve certain things.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Jira on and off for the past six to seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This is a stable product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I have not used Jira for really huge projects. I have had groups of between 30 and 40 people and for that size, there were no issues with scalability.
How are customer service and technical support?
We have asked a couple of questions from technical support and I don't recall having any issues with that. Everything was as expected.
How was the initial setup?
I have not completed an installation myself, but my understanding is that it is quite straightforward. I am familiar with cloud-based deployment but I believe that it can be deployed in a private environment, as well.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
One of my customers told me that they were receiving better pricing for a similar tool from Microsoft. Specifically, the total cost of ownership was cheaper with Microsoft.
What other advice do I have?
This is definitely a tool that I would recommend to people, depending on their needs.
In summary, it is a good product and the only room for improvement that I can see is that it needs better integration.
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
CEO at a transportation company with 1-10 employees
An issue tracking solution with a nice GUI
Pros and Cons
- "In general, the GUI is nice."
- "I would recommend Jira for Sprint management."
- "The part when it comes to the testing area is a bit hard to handle. The screen is too small, you can't really read what you're typing in, and it's only for the testing area. It looks like they have pressed in more than the UI system could handle to display it properly."
What is our primary use case?
I'm working on creating test cases and one test. I also have an overview of the Sprint.
What is most valuable?
In general, the GUI is nice.
What needs improvement?
The part when it comes to the testing area is a bit hard to handle. The screen is too small, you can't really read what you're typing in, and it's only for the testing area. It looks like they have pressed in more than the UI system could handle to display it properly.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Jira for about eight months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Jira seems like a stable product, but sometimes I'm losing data.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
As a totally different team does the entire setup, I don't know if it's scalable. But we have about 150 users.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
To be quite honest, at the end of the day, a tool is just a tool. For me personally, it's hard to say this tool is much better than the other. From just what I know so far, Micro Focus Octane looks a bit more modern. But I don't know which Jira version we're using at the moment. Octane looks a bit more integrated, it looks a bit newer, but would I buy a tool because of that? Certainly not.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend Jira for Sprint management. But when it comes to documentation of manual tests, I would say, "Okay, you can buy it if you want to have one package, but you can also have a look at something different."
On a scale from one to ten, I would give Jira a solid eight.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Director Data Analytics at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Very flexible, pretty user-friendly, stable, and scalable
Pros and Cons
- "I liked the flexibility of the application. It was pretty user-friendly."
- "If you're not a technical person, it might not be very user-friendly."
What is our primary use case?
Most of our company is using Jira for IT projects. We had an internal project with which I was involved, and I touched on it a little bit. We have its latest version.
What is most valuable?
I liked the flexibility of the application. It was pretty user-friendly.
What needs improvement?
If you're not a technical person, it might not be very user-friendly.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for the past 12 months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It was stable. I don't recall any bugs or glitches.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
My impression is that it was pretty scalable. We have 10 to 12 people who use it. They are IT managers, directors, and developers.
How are customer service and technical support?
I did not have to use tech support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I used to use Microsoft Project in a different organization. In my current organization, I have been working for two years, and Jira is the only tool that they have used as far as I know. They are two different animals.
How was the initial setup?
I wasn't involved in its setup.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Jira an eight out of ten because of its flexibility. I like the controls on it.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Owner at TRS
Feature-rich, complete, stable, and easy to administer
Pros and Cons
- "It is a complete solution, it has more features as compared to other tools, especially the open-source one that we use, and it is also easy to administer."
- "Based on the feedback from my admin, it is sometimes difficult to find some of the features. It is not a big deal, but its configuration interface can be improved to make it easy to find things."
What is our primary use case?
We use this solution because it comes with some of the products that we are using. It is a part of the package. Our usage is quite basic, and we have not finished exploring and deploying the whole solution.
What is most valuable?
It is a complete solution. It has more features as compared to other tools, especially the open-source one that we use. It is also easy to administer.
What needs improvement?
Based on the feedback from my admin, it is sometimes difficult to find some of the features. It is not a big deal, but its configuration interface can be improved to make it easy to find things.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have not deployed it on a very large scale. For now, we have ten users, and it is mostly used for our internal things, but from next week, we're opening it for the community. We'll have a broader experience of the product.
How are customer service and technical support?
We haven't used their technical support so far.
How was the initial setup?
I have not heard of any complaints about the installation. It takes almost half a day to install. It took some time to configure it for different tools that we use, but the installation was straightforward. There is enough documentation for its installation.
What about the implementation team?
We did it on our own. I only have one admin guy for its deployment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We are a regional research and education institute. We're using the free license provided for educational institutes.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend this solution. I would rate Jira an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Line Technical Agent at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Straightforward, easy to use, and scalable
Pros and Cons
- "It is very straightforward and easy to use."
- "It should be less expensive."
What is our primary use case?
We are using it for project management. We have cloud and on-premises deployments of this solution, and we are currently using its latest version.
What is most valuable?
It is very straightforward and easy to use.
What needs improvement?
It should be less expensive.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for about five years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is scalable. We have about 500 users.
How are customer service and technical support?
I don't have any experience with their technical support.
How was the initial setup?
It is easy to install. It takes one to two days.
What about the implementation team?
Our team handles its deployment and maintenance. We have a team of three people to manage it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Its price is fine, but we would like it to be less expensive. We are paying on a yearly basis.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We didn't evaluate other products.
What other advice do I have?
I would 100% recommend this solution to others. We plan to keep using it.
I would rate Jira a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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