We use Jira as a help desk, an IDSM. We use it on a daily basis. Every ticket gets opened on it.
Deputy Director - Network/Systems and Support - IT department (USJ) at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Simple to adapt the solution and change the workflow
Pros and Cons
- "It's very simple to change the workflow and adapt it. Jira is very user friendly for the agent and the user."
- "For the time being, everything is good."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
It's very simple to change the workflow and adapt it. Jira is very user friendly for the agent and the user.
What needs improvement?
It's a very customizable solution, but as a customer, we're always looking for additional customization. There could be better customization in future releases. If we changed from Atlassian to another product, we would look for a customizable solution.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for many years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of Jira is good. We haven't had any issues with stability or performance.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's a license-based software, so if you pay more for the license, the solution becomes more scalable.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support is usually good. I have had no issues with them.
How was the initial setup?
Setup was straightforward. There is no dedicated team for maintenance. Our IT department handles that. It's a simple solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
There are no additional costs to the standard licensing.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate this solution 10 out of 10. I recommend Jira. For the time being, everything is good. Their support is good. The platform is good. There are no issues with them on any level. We mainly picked Jira because of its stability, integration, and price. If a solution is well integrated in our environment, and it's not costly, why not configure it?
The biggest thing I have taken away from working with Jira is that it's very simple.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Lead Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Very good capabilities and workflow administration is simple
Pros and Cons
- "Workflow administration is an easy process, especially with respect to defects."
- "I like the ease with which we can do our workflow administration, especially with respect to defects."
- "End-to-end management from product backlog to test completion could be improved."
- "The solution could be improved with respect to how the end-to-end is managed from product backlog creation until test completion."
What is our primary use case?
As a lead consultant, I assess the testing maturity and suggest how our clients can improve what they're doing. I also carry out training sessions for Jira and other solutions as to how they can effectively use the solution.
What is most valuable?
I like the ease with which we can do our workflow administration, especially with respect to defects. We can do good work with the boards, whether it's a Kanban or a Scrum board. It's much easier with Jira than with other tools.
What needs improvement?
The solution could be improved with respect to how the end-to-end is managed from product backlog creation until test completion. Although it can be customized, if there was a standard out-of-view box feature or a workflow, that would be helpful. There are features that are currently not out of the box and lack end-to-end traceability, such as the business value of a particular feature. It would be great if that were included.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using this solution for over two and a half years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We are currently working with an enterprise client and we are able to scale easily.
How are customer service and support?
Jira's technical support is good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used HP ALM, as well as TestRail, which is now focused more on test management. ALM was the major tool that I used before we started using Jira.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The licensing costs are reasonable.
What other advice do I have?
This tool has good capabilities but you really need to know what you want to do and freeze down your requirements before using it. It can be challenging when people don't understand the difference between Kanban and Scrum, and how you use those boards effectively.
I rate this solution eight out of 10.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Technical Director
Fast and easily scalable with lots of functionality
Pros and Cons
- "Jira is very useful for project management for internal projects."
- "Jira is very useful for project management for internal projects."
- "We'd like to see more collaboration tools implemented within the product itself."
- "We'd like to see more collaboration tools implemented within the product itself."
What is our primary use case?
Our company is a consulting company and then we are an Atlassian partner as well. Therefore we use many functions of Jira. It's sometimes project management and sometimes to communicate to outside customers.
What is most valuable?
The solution is very fast.
It's a very useful tool. Jira is very useful for project management for internal projects.
We can easily communicate with many things easily in Jira.
There's the ability to easily customize the product. There's lots of great potential functionality.
The solution is stable.
You can scale the product very well.
What needs improvement?
We'd like to see more collaboration tools implemented within the product itself.
The product needs to allow for more communication between individuals and teams.
The solution could always use better reporting.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using the solution for four or five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. it doesn't crash or freeze.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
This is the type of tool that would work well for any size of organization, from a smaller company to a very large enterprise.
The product is very easy to scale and extend the user license. In terms of functional expansion, for projects, it's very easy to expand. You can do so in no time. It's very quick.
How are customer service and support?
For the most part, we are satisfied with technical support. Sometimes in some areas, if you find a bug on Atlassian, they respond quickly. However, sometimes, they are slower. It can really vary. For the most part, they really try to get to things quickly.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is different and is case by case, however, for a single person or scrum team, it's not too hard. The process is simpler on smaller setups. The more processes the company needs, the more complicated the solution gets during implementation.
We have our own engineer team internally that handles maintenance. We have no problem with maintenance tasks. It's not too hard to handle.
What about the implementation team?
We provide implementation services to our customers.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Jira pricing is very difficult to pin down. They stopped another licensing version earlier in the year, in February. Now they have only data center licenses and then cloud licenses. These are more expensive than a server license. With a server license, you pay once. When you get a cloud license, it's an ongoing annual cost. We would have preferred if the old licensing model was kept.
What other advice do I have?
We are Atlassian partners.
We are using the current version, the latest version right now.
We use both cloud or on-premises deployment models. It's a hybrid approach.
I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. I'd recommend the product to other users.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Senior Software Engineer
Good reporting, interfaces well with other products, and has everything I need
Pros and Cons
- "The way it interfaces with Bitbucket and other things like that is valuable. Reporting and being able to link various issues or stories together are also valuable. We call them stories, and they're general reports."
- "Everything I needed to do was always there."
- "It should have Behavior Driven Development (BDD). There should be an option to add macros to help with that. A lot of people are using it now, and it would be nice if there was a way in there to be able to generate the BDD of commands whenever you're creating a story."
- "It should have Behavior Driven Development (BDD). There should be an option to add macros to help with that."
What is most valuable?
The way it interfaces with Bitbucket and other things like that is valuable. Reporting and being able to link various issues or stories together are also valuable. We call them stories, and they're general reports.
I never had an issue with it at all. Everything I needed to do was always there. Everything is cool.
What needs improvement?
It should have Behavior Driven Development (BDD). There should be an option to add macros to help with that. A lot of people are using it now, and it would be nice if there was a way in there to be able to generate the BDD of commands whenever you're creating a story.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for probably 8 to 10 years. I have used it at different companies. Cloud is the way they had it set up.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
There were probably about 600 users, and they were from top management and all the way down to the testers. So, pretty much everybody used it.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate it at least a 9 out of 10. That's because I never had any issues with it. It always did what I needed it to do.
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.
QA Supervisor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Valuable ticking feature, stable, and helpful support
Pros and Cons
- "I have found the most valuable features of Jira to be ticketing, life cycle workflow, definition, and creation. Many of the features are useful."
- "I would recommend this solution to others, it is a good option."
- "The solution could improve by having its own tool for quality lifecycle management."
- "The solution could improve by having its own tool for quality lifecycle management."
What is our primary use case?
We use Jira in our organization for lifecycle management.
How has it helped my organization?
The solution has helped our organization do lifecycle management easily.
What is most valuable?
I have found the most valuable features of Jira to be ticketing, life cycle workflow, definition, and creation. Many of the features are useful.
What needs improvement?
The solution could improve by having its own tool for quality lifecycle management.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used Jira for approximately nine years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of Jira is good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Jira has good scalability.
We are using this solution extensively. We have more than 5,000 using the solution in my organization.
How are customer service and support?
We have been satisfied with the technical support from Jira.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We have used in-house developed tools previously and we had to do a lot of customization and this is why we moved to Jira.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend this solution to others, it is a good option.
I 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.
Java Architect at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees
Great usability, easy collaboration capabilities and offers a clear user interface
Pros and Cons
- "The ordinary user has an interface that is very clear."
- "The solution, for the most part, offers good usability."
- "Some of the interfaces, especially on the administrator side and for permissions, are not so clear. They aren't very user-friendly."
- "Some of the interfaces, especially on the administrator side and for permissions, are not so clear."
What is our primary use case?
We primarily use the solution for our own projects.
What is most valuable?
The solution, for the most part, offers good usability.
The ordinary user has an interface that is very clear.
It's very easy to collaborate, especially on-site when there are a lot of moving pieces. It's a great collaboration tool.
What needs improvement?
Some of the interfaces, especially on the administrator side and for permissions, are not so clear. They aren't very user-friendly.
For admin to get permissions and stuff like that for their members it's a little confusing sometimes. That said, the rest is very clear.
The integration of what we call "Issues" in Jira could be better. The Issues integration with Bitbucket Pipelines could be better. If Jira can provide an easier way to configure and use this functionality, that will be helpful for workers.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using Jira for more than ten years now. It's been a while at this point.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I looked at other options, however, Jira is so famous and well known that I did not have to look for other software.
What other advice do I have?
We are a customer and an end-user. We use Jira for internal projects. I'm a Java architect.
I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten. I'm very satisfied with its capabilities.
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.
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."
- "Jira is a great software."
- "If Jira would be interested in offering a SharePoint version, it would be beneficial."
- "The only thing in our current setup that is a bit difficult is that Jira is a bit of a black box."
What is our primary use case?
We use this solution to manage our projects.
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.
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 technical 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."
- "We use Jira to manage our software development lifecycle, and additionally it can be used to communicate between teams and as a management tool with many abilities."
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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