We use this solution to manage our projects.
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Strong structure, stable, with good support, and affordable entry-level pricing
Pros and Cons
- "Jira as a structure has Confluence for documentation, and for what it is offering it is a strong suit with Atlassian."
- "If Jira would be interested in offering a SharePoint version, it would be beneficial."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Jira is a great software. There is not much to complain about, other than it doesn't fit very well into our current Microsoft environment.
Jira as a structure has Confluence for documentation, and for what it is offering it is a strong suit with Atlassian.
What needs improvement?
The only thing in our current setup that is a bit difficult is that Jira is a bit of a black box. Only we see it, our customers do not. I know that we can change it but we have not done the work to do it.
Jira is not compatible with our current Microsoft infrastructure.
We are using SharePoint along with WorkPoint in our environment, which is used for document management and process management. For projects, it is a better connection between HelpDesk and the projects. Moving into SharePoint would help.
If Jira would be interested in offering a SharePoint version, it would be beneficial.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Jira for approximately five years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Jira is a stable product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have approximately 50 users in our company who use Jira.
How are customer service and support?
I am satisfied with the technical support of Jira. It's fine.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have tested Plumsail Helpdesk. There's only one thing that worries me. Due to GDPR, we cannot use email yet in Plumsail. That is the only thing, use email to create tickets.
I don't know where the mailbox is in Plumsail, otherwise, it just ends up in us using SharePoint. It looks very promising.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is very affordable at the entry-level. When you get larger, the pricing becomes very, very steep. It is the same for many other solutions, but I find it expensive when you get larger.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We are currently using Jira but want to move the help desk to SharePoint.
We have a Microsoft environment. SharePoint HelpDesk would fit better into our environment. As we are larger than we originally started, we have to make some changes to our current setup.
I also find Plumsail HelpDesk quite interesting.
What other advice do I have?
I don't know what to compare it to. It is not an A product, but it's a strong piece.
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.
CEO and Founder at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Easy to use, user friendly, and highly reliable
Pros and Cons
- "The solution is easy to use and user-friendly."
What is our primary use case?
We use Jira to manage our software development lifecycle. Additionally, it can be used to communicate between teams and as a management tool, it has many abilities.
What is most valuable?
The solution is easy to use and user-friendly.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Jira for approximately 10 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Jira is highly stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable.
We have approximately 400 people using the solution in my organization.
How are customer service and technical support?
The technical support is very good. They have different ways to get in contact with the support, such as chat.
How was the initial setup?
The installation took a couple of weeks. It was a distributed architecture that was quite easy to implement.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We are on an annual license and could be less expensive.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend this solution to others.
I rate Jira a ten 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.
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Software Development Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Allows us to do bulk edits, integrates well with Bitbucket, and is very stable
Pros and Cons
- "We love the bulk edit feature. Jira also integrates well with Bitbucket."
- "Workflows can be improved. We don't use workflows because we can't handle that much complexity. Its interface could be more intuitive for workflows."
What is our primary use case?
We use Jira for our in-house projects. We use Jira Cloud and Bitbucket. We are not actively using Confluence.
How has it helped my organization?
We are a small company. We can manage our project tasks with other tools, but I prefer to use Jira on the cloud because people forget what they have done, and we need to see who did which task and when.
What is most valuable?
We love the bulk edit feature. Jira also integrates well with Bitbucket.
What needs improvement?
Workflows can be improved. We don't use workflows because we can't handle that much complexity. Its interface could be more intuitive for workflows.
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. I have been using this solution for three years, and I never had to contact their support.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is scalable. We have six people who use Jira at the moment, and they don't have any issues related to slow response. Everything is fine for now.
How are customer service and technical support?
I never had to contact their support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
In this company, I have only used Jira. In earlier companies, I have used other tools such as Microsoft Project, Redmine, and Service Bus.
How was the initial setup?
It is easy to set up. We can use project templates. We can use classic projects templates or create new templates. Classic is enough for us. Our management doesn't want reports from us. We use templates for our daily progress.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Its price is good and similar to other products. It is about five or six dollars per user.
What other advice do I have?
I got it set up when I joined this company, and now I manage users here. It has integration with Bitbucket. It is fine for us.
I would rate Jira a nine out of 10.
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.
RPA Developer/Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
A helpful tool for tracking and anticipating efforts and designing workflows
Pros and Cons
- "The ability to design your own workflows is a great feature."
- "The reporting part is a little bit difficult for me. It is not so easy. There should be a simpler way to track the efforts of our team. For example, in an Excel sheet, there is a feature for filtering. It would be much better if we can use something like that. Currently, for a complex query, we need to use Jira Query Language. Using Jira Query Language every time is not efficient for me."
What is our primary use case?
I am currently using Jira for project management purposes, such as tracking the team and opening tickets. I am an admin in my project. When we start a new project, I open a new story in Jira for that project, and I open sub-tasks for that project. From there, I create backlogs. Our team is responsible for those backlogs. I have previously also used Jira for designing workflows for our enterprise.
How has it helped my organization?
It is helpful for tracking efforts for our projects. We have around 20 mandate projects, and Jira helps us to see how much effort goes into which feature and which team members have put effort into a project. It helps in anticipating the efforts for the next projects.
What is most valuable?
The ability to design your own workflows is a great feature.
What needs improvement?
The reporting part is a little bit difficult for me. It is not so easy. There should be a simpler way to track the efforts of our team. For example, in an Excel sheet, there is a feature for filtering. It would be much better if we can use something like that. Currently, for a complex query, we need to use Jira Query Language. Using Jira Query Language every time is not efficient for me.
Understanding the workflows can be a little bit difficult. For example, if you don't know the workflow well and you get an error, which is not a technical error, you won't be able to find the reason for that error.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Jira for the last 15 months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
There is no problem with its stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Its scalability is good. Too many people use Jira, and there is no problem with its scalability. It is a scalable product.
Our Jira team has five people, and our company has about 1,500 people who use Jira for tracking efforts. We are using it almost every week, and we don't plan to increase or decrease its usage.
How are customer service and technical support?
We take support from the Jira team in our company. I didn't take support from Atlassian.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have been with this company for about three years, and they were using Jira when I came here.
How was the initial setup?
I didn't deploy Jira. We have a dedicated Jira team in our enterprise. There are five people on that team. This team supports two Jiras. They also support SoftTech Jira. It is used by about 20,000 people.
I don't remember the deployment time. The upgrade took 8 to 10 hours. We do maintenance frequently because when business processes change, many changes are required in the backend. Jira team takes care of the maintenance.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Jira an eight out of 10.
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.
Program Manager, Project Manager and Scrum Master at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Could be more intuitive and technical support is lacking; has good reporting capabilities
Pros and Cons
- "Powerful features including a good reporting capability."
- "Could be more intuitive."
What is our primary use case?
I work for an insurance company that has developers who need to be tracked. We're working on converting the spreadsheet into a Kanban flow environment. I'm the program manager/master.
What is most valuable?
The solution is very powerful, has many good features, in particular a good reporting capability. I like many of the features, and I have the benefit of having a very skilled Jira administrator helping me out because I'm a PM.
What needs improvement?
The solution is not as intuitive as it should be and you have to play around with the environment quite a bit before you get a handle on how things work. One of the issues is that it's usual for a ticket to have a primary developer on it and other people supporting, but that's not possible in Jira. They have a very thick policy and a ticket can only have one assigning, although it may be possible to do it as a number coding, I'm not sure. I'd like to see the solution include a feature whereby you can link stories visually, to explicitly show the connection between a user story and a task.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using Jira for several years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability of the solution seems fine.
How are customer service and technical support?
Technical support could be improved. When you submit a ticket, it can take two or three rounds before you get what you're looking for. I send the ticket and receive an irrelevant response, which doesn't help. You can go backwards and forwards with them and never get there which is very frustrating. I'm not sure if the user community is that helpful. I've submitted two questions but haven't yet received a response.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was quite complex.
What other advice do I have?
The solution is fairly good at doing a lot of things, and is potentially very good, but it takes some getting up to speed on. I've used a product called Kanban Flow, and that's very intuitive, very easy to use. Jira seems to be more complicated and requires having specialists on board so that if you have a problem, you can get help immediately without having to go through the ordeal of submitting a ticket and waiting two or three days to get a response, which may not be helpful at all.
I rate this solution a five out of 10.
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.
Chief information technology officer at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Stable and can be used to manage resources and IT projects
Pros and Cons
- "It is a stable solution, and we have had no issues with stability."
- "For our company, we're thinking about not only project management solutions but also collaboration solutions, and maybe if Jira had a chart or quick commenting option, it would be great."
What is our primary use case?
We use it for IT project management. We manage the timelines and resources, mainly people resources.
What is most valuable?
It is a stable solution, and we have had no issues with stability.
What needs improvement?
For our company, we're thinking about not only project management solutions but also collaboration solutions, and maybe if Jira had a chart or quick commenting option, it would be great.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with it for two years. It is a cloud-based solution.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have had no issues with stability.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We currently have ten users, and it is free for ten users. However, we hope to increase usage.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Jira at eight on a scale from one to ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Enterprise Solution Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Not user-friendly, and the interface needs improvement, but it's stable and well-known
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature of Jira is that it's a well-known tool that many people are familiar with."
- "It is not user-friendly."
What is our primary use case?
I'm a consulting company. I provide solutions for many companies, and in some cases, I implement Jira. DevOps is something else that I provide for my clients.
Our clients range in all sizes. I have microscopic clients, such as a one-man company, and on the other end of the spectrum, I have the New Zealand government, for example.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of Jira is that it's a well-known tool that many people are familiar with.
What needs improvement?
Jira is not the best tool; I just don't like it.
I am not looking to improve Jira. I have transitioned to using Azure DevOps or GitHub.
I don't like the interface or the way it is structured. I prefer the way it is done in Azure DevOps.
It is not user-friendly.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been acquainted with Jira for approximately five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Jira is a stable solution.
How are customer service and technical support?
I have not contacted technical support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We are also providing Azure DevOps.
I would recommend DevOps because it is more user-friendly and easier to use.
How was the initial setup?
I was not involved in the initial setup of Jira.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Jira a five 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.
Test Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Has a good, uncomplicated UI but needs improvement in dropdown options
Pros and Cons
- "The UI is good. It's simple and not very complicated. It's very good for tracking."
- "The thing I don't like is that it is hard to decide which dropdown options should be selected. When we try and submit it, it will state that there are certain mandates in place. It won't allow us to submit the form unless we fill out all the details."
What is our primary use case?
We use it mainly for logging defects and tracking them.
What is most valuable?
The UI is good. It's simple and not very complicated.
It's very good for tracking.
What needs improvement?
The thing I don't like is that it is hard to decide which dropdown options should be selected. When we try and submit it, it will state that there are certain mandates in place. It won't allow us to submit the form unless we fill out all the details.
I don't think Jira has a copy/paste option for emails. I know that you can attach emails, but I don't think there is a copy/paste option.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with JIRA for the past 10 years.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend Jira because it helps from a functional point of view and also with tracking defects. It is similar to Quality Center and is good.
I would rate it at seven on a scale from one to ten.
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