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."The solution's most valuable features revolve around the dashboard view, which has a burndown chart indicating progress."
"The user story map is excellent. The features can be composed into stories and they can be allocated to each of the sprints in a program increment. It allows you to see all that in the user story map, and you have various dashboards to see the stories in various views. You can see them as a backlog view, for example, or you can see as an actual sprint view."
"We have the best community to support any problems that we have."
"The customization and tailoring of the workflows have proven to be very useful."
"Overall, the solution is very nice and has a variety of great features."
"Its visual display and ease of use are most valuable."
"The task management aspect of Jira is pretty pure. They have a lot of great plugins that really expand your options."
"It also works well with all the integrated tools that you buy."
"The interface is easy to navigate."
"The most valuable feature is the backlog."
"Complete integration with VS IDE and Office tools: This give us a possibility of high-level automation, thus minimizing human error."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"The biggest value-add is the solution integrates well with most Microsoft products."
"I feel that the test plan and test tools are more manageable in TFS."
"TFS's best features include user-friendly test management, bug reporting, and ID assignment."
"I would like to see visualization of release planning. I can list the releases and I can give dates to releases, but to show how they are happening on a timeline, I would need to order the Portfolio part. But just for this, it may be too much to use the Portfolio for that."
"It would be ideal if the solution could be available as a mobile application."
"Sometimes, we create the same bug with two or three different Jira tickets in my company, which leads to duplication, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Jira could be more, for example, like Micro Focus, which is what I mostly work with currently."
"Lacks some common building block approaches to certain things."
"The integration could be better in Jira."
"There could be an improvement in loading files and images for more than 50 MB. It would be good if it allowed more than 100 MB."
"It lacks features to cover all testing aspects, so we often integrate it with other plugins or tools like X-ray."
"Currently, we are looking for a solution with which we can incorporate third-party development sites or third-party project teams into the system. Because it is on-premise, it is a bit problematic because we need to have a VPN or something else in the system. A cloud-based solution would be better for us, and that's what we are looking for. Our biggest problem is the external connection, which, of course, is limited by our own IT. It would be good to have some kind of publishing service for this external connection. It might be there, and it might be that our IT is making it impossible for us. Its template editor could be easier to use. Currently, customizing the project templates according to your needs requires some work."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
"Microsoft should discontinue the use of SharePoint as I don’t really see any value add to TFS, document management features can be included in TFS web portal itself, if required!"
"There should be management of the project built-in."
"Integration from Visual Studio could be improved."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
"We are also using Microsoft Teams. The two products function separately. There is not enough collaboration between Microsoft Teams and TFS."
"TFS isn't a great tool if you're on the cloud."
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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