We performed a comparison between Jira Align and Microsoft Azure DevOps 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."The OKR experience is great."
"Align enables the capture of all capabilities."
"Some of the most valuable features are the configurations and dashboards."
"Velocity and reporting provide good visibility, burndown charts, and particularly velocity measurement."
"The reporting structure is great."
"I've had no issues with Align's stability."
"The most valuable feature is that engineers can access the Jira database and just search for the tasks that are assigned to them. They can then update the status on their own in those records that are assigned to them."
"The most valuable features are the ability to customize the entries and to update them quickly. Since the new version they released, we started utilizing the customization features to create specific codes and symbols for our teams that were not available before. For example, in team A each person had their own symbols and we had our own demarcation. When our project or task was completed, we had a code that we could enter online that let the main project managers know that it was time to remove it."
"There are great automation tools."
"It's a pretty problem-free solution."
"It has a good GUI, and it's very user-friendly."
"It is a really easy way to define all of the features that you need to deliver. You can link those features to epics and break them down into user stories. You can also assign the user stories into sprints for doing your product improvement planning."
"You get a complete solution with Azure DevOps. You can do everything in one place, starting from requirement gathering until you release the product. It is a reliable, scalable, and handy product."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the CI/CD pipeline, and the testing automation."
"Some of the valuable features are the functionality and the wide range of capabilities."
"The reports have been most valuable. We have created some dashboards allowing us to be able to check our teams, their progress, and mission plans."
"Deployment was very complex."
"One area for improvement is that Jira Align's double menu and multiple menus can be difficult for new users."
"It would be helpful if they had something for capacity planning that was simpler to understand."
"Maybe some of the terms and the connectivity could be improved."
"I would like to see Jira Align merge and integrate better with Jira as a whole. A lot of the time, the data from Jira won't map very well into Jira Align."
"There is no linkage between the Jira records and the overarching schedule. We maintain the overarching schedule in Microsoft Project, and there is no linkage back and forth with the Jira tasks. They are independent of each other."
"Jira Align can improve the visibility of executive teams."
"The workflows are scalable from portfolio to individual level but can sometimes be complex to navigate."
"The UI could be improved."
"The ability to integrate Microsoft Azure DevOps with other platforms and Microsoft products can be improved."
"I can't think of any specific things at the moment, but I've run into things that I didn't like. I came across something that I wanted to be changed in DevOps, but I can't remember what it was. It was a particular feature I was looking for that I couldn't find."
"The price could be lowered. It would be nice if it was cheaper."
"The UI, the user experience, is challenging for newcomers."
"It should be able to handle the different types. There is ecosystems engineering, and there is software applications engineering. There is a need to bring these teams together, but the disciplines don't integrate very well, and so it won't work."
"The interface is very bad."
"We are currently in the process of moving all of our on-prem to the cloud platform. We are trying to make that move and host the majority of our DevOps services in the cloud because the cloud is where most of the things are going nowadays. However, the process of this transfer is not straightforward, and it could be a lot easier. Microsoft hasn't provided the maturity for migration tools. It could be a lot easier in that respect. I want to see them continue to advance the API capabilities. They could add some more robust functionality to the administrative layer within ADO services. There are a lot of configuration elements that you need to take care of at the organization level and the project configuration level from an administrative capacity. When you're dealing with process templates and things of that nature, you have to do them all manually. Being able to automate some of that using scripts or API functionality would be really nice."
Jira Align is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 15 reviews while Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 83 reviews. Jira Align is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Jira Align writes "Creates visibility, has lots of reports, and removes silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Robust functionality, good integration, continually enhanced, and easy to scale". Jira Align is most compared with ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview AgilePlace, JIRA Portfolio, ServiceNow DevOps and Digital.ai Agility, whereas Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with Jira, GitLab, TFS and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management. See our Jira Align vs. Microsoft Azure DevOps report.
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