We performed a comparison between Jira and Microsoft Project based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is good, stable and very cost-effective for small teams."
"Kanban board: The board is easy to use and visually impressive to non-IT users, who found it easy to relate to."
"The most valuable feature is managing software development."
"For QA, the most interesting for me are boards, backlog, and filters."
"The design of the interface is clean and not too busy visually."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the source linking on the commit level to git."
"I have found the most valuable features of Jira to be ticketing, life cycle workflow, definition, and creation. Many of the features are useful."
"JIRA stores history of changes, which helps a lot to track who, when, and why the issue was modified."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Project are you can create critical paths pretty easily, and you can import from an Excel spreadsheet to your task list as you create it during your working sessions with your team."
"The pricing is pretty good on the enterprise agreement we have."
"Microsoft Project is one of the only solutions you can use in just about any industry. It's difficult to do that with most other project management tools. There is a lot of flexibility within the product assets. Most sectors can utilize Microsoft Project successfully because it doesn't have any generic adapters."
"They have begun to improve with the new cloud integration."
"We use Microsoft Project for its timeline and task management capabilities. The primary advantage is the easy application of tasks in sequence, confirming dependencies, and establishing relationships between tasks. It simplifies handling conditions, significant dates, and dependencies between various tasks."
"One of the best features is that it is easy to use."
"The built-in dashboards are powerful because they show both project and overall progress."
"The solution is very complete. It makes it a great option for project managers and they can use it extensively in almost any organizational setup."
"I would like integrated requirements management, so we do not have to buy plug-ins for JIRA, since it was hard to get requirements management for it."
"Pretty much 70% - 80% of the Next-Gen Projects features are still to be developed."
"Sometimes the solution doesn't communicate well with other platforms. It's quite difficult to integrate things and make the data flow from A to B, to Jira, and then back to other areas."
"Having more seamless integration with Confluence would really help us track our product management activity and other product details in one place."
"Jira should allow you to create and develop pipelines easily. In India, we have to purchase them separately or integrate other data tools. All these tools should be in Jira."
"Sometimes it takes time to load the data."
"Some of the interfaces, especially on the administrator side and for permissions, are not so clear. They aren't very user-friendly."
"I would love to have more features to make nice documents, like Release Notes or a feature overview, right from JIRA."
"The setup and scalability can be somewhat difficult for new users until they gain knowledge."
"I would like to see the inclusion of multi-currency support."
"The Microsoft license is relatively expensive."
"There needs to be better integration with other Microsoft products such as SharePoint, and the like."
"Microsoft Project could improve the dates. Sometimes the dates are not aligned. This occurs even when you auto-schedule the dates. We have to go and define the schedule daily this should more easily accessible."
"I would like to have more access to templates and tools that could be used to teach project management best practices."
"I would like to see more integrations with another software tool."
"Microsoft Project could improve the interface, it should be more intuitive. It could be adjusted a little bit to make it a little easier to use and more user-friendly. It is a very powerful tool and it takes people a while to get used to it."
Jira is ranked 5th in Project Management Software with 243 reviews while Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 74 reviews. Jira is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Project is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Polarion ALM and Jama Connect, whereas Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet, monday.com and Broadcom Clarity . See our Jira vs. Microsoft Project report.
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