We performed a comparison between Jira and Microsoft Azure Devops based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Overall, users of both products seem to be satisfied with the solutions. Microsoft Azure Devops has slightly higher ratings because it is easy to deploy.
"The dashboard and reports tracking and the setup updates quickly, I am very impressed with those features. Additionally, it is user-friendly."
"JIRA stores history of changes, which helps a lot to track who, when, and why the issue was modified."
"The solution works well and does what it needs to do."
"The solution has been very stable overall."
"The scalability is good."
"I have found Jira to be stable."
"When we run the Jenkins pipeline, the build is already automatically connected to Jira. We've been able to integrate the ecosystem we created using this automation tool."
"The ability to change and rewrite tasks is valuable. You can add a lot of columns, change the owners and the change the components."
"Some of the valuable features are the functionality and the wide range of capabilities."
"The simplicity and ease of use are two features that we have found to be most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is automation with version control."
"This solution works with other Microsoft solutions pretty easily. It was easy to integrate everything into all the other tools that we were using. It integrates very seamlessly."
"It is stable, and we have had no issues with it."
"The initial setup is quick and easy."
"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."
"All of the features related to release management are very good."
"Some small issues with stability."
"Grid: It is really strange that there is no possibility to edit an item in the grid. You need to go inside, and even then, not all items are editable, so you need to switch to edit mode. That's too many clicks and switches."
"The permissions can be challenging to get right."
"The features are not intuitive. It would be good if there were templates."
"Workflows can be improved. We don't use workflows because we can't handle that much complexity. Its interface could be more intuitive for workflows."
"In Jira, say on the team, no matter the methodology, it doesn't matter what I'm practicing, if I am using the tool for a while and I've compiled some sort of history. If I want to change my workflow, say my team is today using to-do in progress done, and tomorrow, I decide I want to use to-do in review and done, and I apply that new workflow, I have just now effectively lost all of my histories in terms of reporting."
"Sometimes, it is slow and hangs. We faced some stability issues where JIRA was down for a day. Also, we have lost some of our comments made in the JIRA because of downtime."
"Backlog pruning and visualization are poor."
"The UI, the user experience, is challenging for newcomers."
"One potential enhancement in Azure DevOps could be integrating more customizable reporting features, particularly for Power BI integration."
"Definitely, there should be more integration between GitHub and Azure DevOps."
"The solution could be made faster because it can be a little unnerving to browse through too many pages and press too many buttons."
"Microsoft could focus on refining the reporting and dashboard elements of Azure DevOps to improve it."
"They have brought a lot of new collaboration features in the latest version. We haven't used those features, but they should continue to expand it more on the collaboration front so that two developers can look at the code and work at the same time. It will be helpful for working from home."
"Microsoft Azure DevOps should create some training materials."
"All of the tests of the applications are done on the mobile or web interface and it could be improved."
Jira is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 23 reviews. Jira is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Jira writes "Stable with good documentation and needs very little maintenance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "High level protection, scales well, but more customer feedback updates needed". Jira is most compared with IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Polarion ALM, Rally Software and TFS, whereas Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, TFS, Rally Software, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our Jira vs. Microsoft Azure DevOps report.
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