We performed a comparison between IBM Engineering Workflow Management and Jira based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Agile templates give us a standard methodology for every Agile project. Also, the ability to create our own object types and linkages to features/epics allows us to enhance the verification of feature readiness."
"Work distribution among team members and accountability for completion with a clearer picture."
"Traceability reporting is inbuilt and includes all your requirements."
"We can track the status of test cases (passed or saved) in a single view. Based on releases and other attributes, we generate various reports and extract metrics from the data."
"Good for managing stories, sprints, hydration and releases."
"All of the features work together to provide a powerful holistic solution - from the dashboard all the way through to security."
"The initial setup isn't too complicated."
"Reporting: It gives a nice report of my backlog and what my team has currently spent its efforts on."
"There are a lot of different plugins for Jira. Unfortunately, we did not test so many and the big pain point for us is the rigorous handling and the roadmap of Jira. We have a portfolio and structure plugin and we have our story map plugin in Jira"
"Its visual display and ease of use are most valuable."
"All of the tracking features are the most valuable because it allows me to see where we stand today and every day."
"It is very flexible, so we can do pretty much what we want with it."
"The layout, workflow, automation, and metrics are helpful in Jira."
"It's a very complete product overall."
"We have encountered issues with stability. We have seen where the entire system kind of goes for a toss when certain people use certain types of queries, which are very costly. Then the system kind of slows down a bit, and we have to monitor it."
"Some administrative tasks are difficult to perform. These could be simplified."
"Teams need clearer pictures of resource availability in charts and dashboards along with plans."
"Lacks ability to customize and reporting can be slow."
"The solution is very heavily vendor dependent."
"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."
"I would like to see test execution modules."
"I would love to have more features to make nice documents, like Release Notes or a feature overview, right from JIRA."
"I manage the progress of the stories in an Excel chart with dates on work progress or thing to do. I don't like the progress or the stage changing from the stories in Jira."
"Nowadays, many organizations are moving toward the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework, and this is something that Jira should be able to accommodate."
"Once a story is closed, all the records, versions, and documentation associated with it are gone. We lose the traceability of what was done."
"What could be improved is the migration between the testing and production environments. This could be automated somehow as the manual transfer of certain workflows and functionalities is very time consuming right now."
"I do know the initial setup was pretty complicated. The user interface could be better organized and easier. "
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IBM Engineering Workflow Management is ranked 10th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 14 reviews while Jira is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 259 reviews. IBM Engineering Workflow Management is rated 6.8, while Jira is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Engineering Workflow Management writes "Offers good traceability elements but UI needs improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". IBM Engineering Workflow Management is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, GitLab, Polarion ALM and Endevor, whereas Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane and Rally Software. See our IBM Engineering Workflow Management vs. Jira report.
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