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Jira vs LiquidPlanner comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Jira
Ranking in Project Management Software
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
267
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (1st), Application Requirements Management (2nd)
LiquidPlanner
Ranking in Project Management Software
33rd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2024, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Jira is 8.2%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LiquidPlanner is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

Saroj Ekka - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 10, 2024
Offers good repository integration, sprint board and easy to set up
There are some features and reports we need that are not there. For example, if I have to find out the capacity of the current sprint by user and compare it with the previous sprint, that visibility isn't there. We can know the capacity and what happened with the whole sprint, but not for an individual person to see where it's falling and how it's tracking. Report and analytics capabilities are important for a product manager. That visibility is important, so we use Jira. Some of the features are there, and I use my own Excels or other data things to compensate for that.
PG
Oct 6, 2020
Good for reporting, but a little rigorous in its methodology and not conducive to real project management
It is a little rigorous in its methodology and is cumbersome. For example, I have a hard stop date and I would like a project to end by a specific date, but this is not how this solution works. It sorts of spits out the project date based on your resource availability, dependencies, and so on. This sort of project planning works in theory, but that's not always the case. It also relies heavily on resources entering their time into the system, that is, how much time they worked on each of the tasks so that it can sort of consistently update the project. I know that in a lot of organizations, including ours, it is almost impossible to get them to track the time. In terms of additional features, they can include more integration with Microsoft because integration is going to be a key functionality.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features in Jira are the dashboard, reports, and boards that help us to control the advancement of the project."
"The solution offers a lot of plugins."
"Great for tracking my development team's productivity."
"The most valuable feature of Jira for sprint planning is the timeline feature, which allows for better visualization and planning of releases."
"This product provides you a good view of the status of your projects."
"This solution assists us with being able to quickly and easily start sprints and keep accurate track of them, including billing using a time-tracking add-on."
"The layout, workflow, automation, and metrics are helpful in Jira."
"It is a good defect tracking tool. It has a lot of capabilities and functionalities. There are a lot of graphs and a lot of tracking. It can be sprint-driven if you want."
"Its dashboards and reports are the most valuable. We are able to share these reports and other information with our leadership."
 

Cons

"I think that there is some ease of use that could be brought in to improve certain things."
"The solution's stability could be improved, and it could be made more robust."
"We're doing PI planning, Program Increment planning, and that kind of stuff, and it's not always a good facilitator for that. We tend to pull it out and put it into other tools to manage that, and then we get it back into Jira as that's our system of record for where all the stories are kept. That's probably the biggest headache with it."
"I am not sure if Jira can be integrated with our ERP. We have our ERP for the cost estimates or measurements. It would be nice if we can check or view a plan with the real cost. Currently, we have to do a double check of costs. It would be better to be able to integrate it with Jira."
"Jira lacks easy capacity calculation compared to TFS, making it harder to know how much work to allocate to each specialist."
"It can have a more high-level view of portfolios. It has quite detailed views, but I would like a high-level view of portfolios. We want to integrate Jira with Microsoft Active Directory, and I don't know how easy or hard it is going to be. I don't know if Jira supports this. We are starting that integration in the last quarter of this year. I hope to find all the required tools for this integration."
"We'd like to see Jira have more integration with a development ID."
"Tracking is important but the built-in features don't meet our needs."
"It is a little rigorous in its methodology and is cumbersome. For example, I have a hard stop date and I would like a project to end by a specific date, but this is not how this solution works. It sorts of spits out the project date based on your resource availability, dependencies, and so on. This sort of project planning works in theory, but that's not always the case. It also relies heavily on resources entering their time into the system, that is, how much time they worked on each of the tasks so that it can sort of consistently update the project. I know that in a lot of organizations, including ours, it is almost impossible to get them to track the time. In terms of additional features, they can include more integration with Microsoft because integration is going to be a key functionality."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We used to be on a perpetual license provided by our clients."
"There is a monthly license required for this solution and it is expensive."
"Almost everybody uses JIRA nowadays because it is the most cost-effective solution."
"Licensing is on a monthly basis, and it is based on what you use."
"It is very cheap if you forego the local instance and stick to the cloud."
"The price is quite competitive."
"The cost is about $10 per user, per month."
"I understand JIRA is quite expensive."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
49%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
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Questions from the Community

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