We performed a comparison between Jira and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."With the help of Jira, tasks are less likely to remain stagnant for a long time. We always see them somewhere on the board."
"It's easy to use, and it also offers excellent notifications."
"The dynamic communication and the ability to customize it the way we want are the most valuable features."
"It's very simple to change the workflow and adapt it. Jira is very user friendly for the agent and the user."
"The most valuable feature is that it has different APIs available, with good services, and it is completely by the books."
"It also works well with all the integrated tools that you buy."
"The solution is easy to use and user-friendly."
"The agile framework works well, and I pretty much live by that. Everything, such as sprint management, is laid out."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"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."
"I have found almost all of the features valuable because it integrates well with your Microsoft products. If a client is using the entire Microsoft platform, then TFS would be definitely preferable. It integrates with the digital studio development environment as well."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"Stability is okay."
"User alerts are very helpful for knowing when work is required."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"Having more seamless integration with Confluence would really help us track our product management activity and other product details in one place."
"The way to configure it can definitely be improved. It is very difficult and complex to configure. Its configuration should be simplified."
"I would like to see more robust release management within the tool."
"Sometimes it takes time to load the data."
"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."
"I think that there is some ease of use that could be brought in to improve certain things."
"There needs to be easier integration with third-parties — personally, this is the biggest issue for me."
"Not very intuitive for project admins."
"Since it is Microsoft, it is technology agnostic, thus it does not really fit into various different technologies in the organization."
"The reporting functionality is something that they should work on."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"One of the areas that could be improved is to have an effective full lifecycle management."
"The dashboard needs more enhancements."
"TFS should allow more integration with different platforms."
"As an end-user, I expect the solution's performance to be faster while staying as stable as possible."
"We are also using Microsoft Teams. The two products function separately. There is not enough collaboration between Microsoft Teams and TFS."
Jira is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 259 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Jira is rated 8.2, while TFS 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 TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and TestRail. See our Jira vs. TFS report.
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