We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ALM, Jira, and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Atlassian, Microsoft, Nutanix and others in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites."The planning feature is rich with Scrum concepts: Sprint, Sprint retrospective, the rules in the Scrum framework."
"I would rate the stability of this product a nine out of ten."
"The tools for requirement capture we have found very useful."
"At the same time, if you're working from the architect or the designing team you, it's quite easy to manage the resources online."
"It helped us contain critical things, like source code and several documents, which is very important to us."
"The solution is customizable."
"It's easy to use."
"The cataloging is a very valuable feature. For a lot of enterprises, they end up not knowing which applications do specific features. The cataloging helps with this. It's not that verbose, but it still gives you allowances to put in more detail."
"It is very configurable, and we can do whatever we want. Jira dashboards are also good, and we use them extensively. We also use the tracking mechanism extensively."
"We use Jira mostly for task coordination and assignment. Additionally, scrum methodologies defined work items and bug issues. If we create any bugs all of them are fixed."
"The configurable workflows and boards make it easy for us to execute and oversee our own unique process."
"Jira has a good reporting system. It also has an API, so we can do all sorts of reporting."
"I was able to do real-time reports myself without having to wait for data import."
"It is very flexible, so we can do pretty much what we want with it."
"It benefits us because we have globally located teams. Our team members work in different geographies, so the product is a better way to manage progress and see the status of different tasks"
"I'm working in the IT department, and the ticketing system is the most important service for us. We are also using some automation add-ons. It a very good product for handling tickets and tasks and managing processes. It is also very useful and easy to use."
"The most valuable features of TFS are the test plans. We can reproduce reusable test plans in test automation. We have a lot of queries and this feature is very useful."
"The biggest value-add is the solution integrates well with most Microsoft products."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is integration."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"The initial setup is fairly easy."
"Stability is okay."
"Version Control: TFS offers both the centralized “TFVC” version control technology as well as the distributed “Git” version control technology."
"The features should be more intuitive. If I'm looking for something, its location should be easy to locate."
"There is not enough beginner support material in the form of FAQs or simple training to help you get started."
"The solution can improve in the development area and the customized applications."
"One of the complaints from users is that they have to click buttons too many times for just a simple task. Changing this would lead to a better user experience."
"Some improvements to the user interface (UI) would be helpful, such as exposing more services to make it easier to customize to the needs of each customer."
"The stability of IBM Rational ALM could be improved."
"I would like to see better reporting features. The out-of-box reporting is - I don't want to say limited - but the focus is on the Scrum and Sprint reports. We need more reporting features regarding the history of the work, tracking it more deeply."
"I think nowadays people are getting into Jira and other tools. What is happening is, this solution is becoming more traditional, whereas Jira and other tools are more attractive for the new users to learn and start using because of the graphical interfaces."
"There is always a bit of a performance problem. It's a bit slow to load the whole data."
"There is a difficulty viewing all the attachments because they are shown in one place. I would like attachments to be shown at the comment level."
"The only thing that JIRA doesn't for us is release management in a way that I can create a list of versions easily."
"Its ability to perform true executive-level status reporting could be improved. There are a lot of benefits there, but there are also a lot of things they can and should expand upon."
"One major issue that I, and even our business stakeholders, have noticed is related to Epic Link. When Epic Link's background color is a dark color, it effectively becomes unreadable. I wish there was a way for us to change the text color of Epic Link in the Issue Navigator view."
"I'd like some more features around software testing. I'd like to see some more stuff done around data testing. That's what I'm most interested in."
"Jira lacks easy capacity calculation compared to TFS, making it harder to know how much work to allocate to each specialist."
"Jira could be more, for example, like Micro Focus, which is what I mostly work with currently."
"As an end-user, I expect the solution's performance to be faster while staying as stable as possible."
"Since it is Microsoft, it is technology agnostic, thus it does not really fit into various different technologies in the organization."
"The usability of TFS is not that great."
"It has been really dated. When you start to work more in an agile environment, it is not really that flexible. They tried to replicate the look and feel of Jira, but it is not quite there. It was nice to use in the past, but it is not as flexible now with the changing development environments and methodologies."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"The program and portfolio planning facility can be improved."
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
"The overall reports in TFS could improve. Additionally, there should be an easier way to migrate from an older version to a newer one."