We performed a comparison between Jira, Rally Software, 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.
"We integrate Jira with QRadar which is helpful."
"I have found Jira to be scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Jira is that it's a well-known tool that many people are familiar with."
"There are many good things about Atlassian."
"The most valuable features of this solution are workflow and reporting."
"The ability to change and rewrite tasks is valuable. You can add a lot of columns, change the owners and the change the components."
"We do not have a lot of time for investigating new things, but Jira has saved us a great deal of time. It has a nice user interface and we can do a lot of things with it."
"It's really smart how they connected third-party vendors into their own marketplace. You can create and add apps. Anybody can do it."
"The effect of these kind of tools drives the way you organize things. It helps you shape the way you flow."
"Reporting is much easier and faster than Micro Focus ALM, with CA AC built on web services... Also, the data is more granular when it comes to tasks, iterations, sprints, and releases."
"Tech support is very responsive, helpful, and available."
"When we went into Scaled Agile Framework, we could not have done it without the use of Agile Central. It allows us to scale our Scrum teams, and it also enables us when we do our remote big room plannings."
"It helps with getting the alignment between strategy and execution for the product teams, all the way down to the delivery teams."
"It's designed around Agile, so it has all of the pieces that match up with the process."
"When it comes to the valuable features of Rally Software, it excels at burn-down charts, burn-up charts, and road mapping once it's set up. I particularly appreciated the new feature for releases and road mapping, which worked exceptionally well."
"If teams are tracking correctly and entering their information correctly, it's really easy to see where you're at, within your release, and whether you're on track or not."
"The most valuable feature is integration, particularly if you have a .NET application."
"The tool's installation is straightforward."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is that it keeps the code secure while working collaboratively in a team of four or five individuals."
"For what I need TFS for, I have never run into any limitation."
"TFS's best features include user-friendly test management, bug reporting, and ID assignment."
"The solution is very much stable."
"Version Control: TFS offers both the centralized “TFVC” version control technology as well as the distributed “Git” version control technology."
"Jira is raising their prices for the license, which is like a trap because many other providers offer services like Jira but for much cheaper."
"The thing I don't like is that it is hard to decide which dropdown options should be selected. When we try and submit it, it will state that there are certain mandates in place. It won't allow us to submit the form unless we fill out all the details."
"We'd like to see Jira have more integration with a development ID."
"The performance could be improved in the future."
"Not very intuitive for project admins."
"The plugin management needs a lot of work."
"If I'm comparing it to ALM Octane, the documentation is not as robust as ALM Octane's documentation. So, they can improve on the documentation side."
"The filtration could be better."
"I'd like the ability to customize reports without having to incur Professional Services, or having to write my own code GitHub and then implement that as a custom report. That's untenable. It's not sustainable."
"It requires better scalability for the implementation of the whole suite. We do not use it in that fashion, and visibility is sometimes a problem."
"One problem I see is that if there is a dependent user story - for example, if my team is working on one thing and there is a dependent user story from another team - we can have a dependency created but we don't know if there is a change of status from the other team. That is something which is very important for Agile Central to look into so that if the other team makes any changes we will be notified as well."
"It's a bit cumbersome to manage the Project Picker. As we sunset teams or projects close out - but we still have test cases tied to those teams or projects that are being used in other spaces - we have this monstrous list in the Project Picker that becomes really difficult to manage and find, and we can't clean that up ourselves. It would be nice if it was easier to do that and not lose your history."
"I wish there was a view, like the Kanban view, where you could see the parent, and see all the children visually, so you could drag and drop where you want it to go. Something like that might help."
"The stronger CA can get on dependency mapping the better. That's the biggest hiccup. As you're setting up your features, they should make it easier to flag the dependencies, either across features or across projects. Then you're more set up for success."
"We did submit an enhancement request. I think a lot of teams that do very large scale products have the same issue. They just do not realize it would help them."
"We want Rally to generate OKRs, to allow teams to record the OKRs, and then the OKRs can be mapped to the epics and there is organizational alignment."
"I'd like to see some kind of visualization tool for TFS that would make life much easier."
"They should have design patterns in TFS for the development team, and design patterns for the QA."
"TFS on-premise does not support integration with SharePoint Online."
"The solution is stable but could improve."
"The overall reports in TFS could improve. Additionally, there should be an easier way to migrate from an older version to a newer one."
"Since it is Microsoft, it is technology agnostic, thus it does not really fit into various different technologies in the organization."
"We encounter issues with backups."
"The reporting functionality is something that they should work on."
