Jira Align Reviews

We use Jira Align for standard agile use cases. 

The tool helps us with better tracking across various departments. Jira Align is highly valuable for organizations due to its flexibility. With my experience as an administrator, I can attest that it can be tailored to meet the diverse needs of any organization. It helps to eliminate the mess created by Excel spreadsheets. 

The product needs to improve its configurations. 

I have been working with the product for a year. 

I rate Jira Align's stability a nine out of ten. 

I rate the product's scalability a ten out of ten. 

The tool's deployment is straightforward. 

Jira Align's pricing is reasonable. 

You need to start your evaluation with simple use cases. I rate the product a nine out of ten. 

I use Jira as a tool to keep everything in check for our projects. It helps me track and fix any issues that pop up during development, whether it is sorting out problems with the product or organizing tasks for the team. I also use it to store and manage user stories.

What I like about Jira is that I can easily keep tabs on the status of different issues and what the team is working on. It helps me see if there are any bugs or tasks that need attention before we move on to the next steps. Additionally, it is great for team collaboration. We can pass things back and forth smoothly, from the technical team to testing and the project manager. This way, everyone stays in the loop, and we get a clear view of how things are progressing in the project. It has become a really valuable tool for us.

For future releases of Jira Align, I would suggest making workflows simpler and more user-friendly. It would be helpful to have improved tools for visualizing workloads and an easier way for users to collaborate with administrators to streamline complex workflows. Simplifying communication and customization, especially for managing bulk storage and intricate projects, would enhance the overall user experience.

I have been using Jira Align for five years.

I would rate the stability of Jira Align as a nine out of ten. It is quite stable.

I would rate the scalability of the solution as an eight out of ten. We have approximately 150 users at our company. If the company expands in the future, we will likely use Jira more for upcoming projects.

For those looking to use Jira Align, my advice is to explore its intuitive user interface and ease of use. If any issues arise, don't hesitate to reach out to the admin team for solutions to enhance workflow and performance. Open communication within the company can lead to a more responsive and effective use of Jira Align for project management. Overall, I would rate it as an eight out of ten.

The tool helps with product planning and strategic road maps. Unfortunately, it is too wedded to the quarterly planning model of the Scaled Agile Framework. If you want to do continuous planning, or plan work that spans multiple quarters, it's extremely difficult. You must artificially split work across quarters rather than, for example, start work in the last month of a quarter and finish the same work in the next quarter.  Also, dependency management is like throwing work over the wall.

It was a huge learning curve for dozens of teams. It didn't work, and we are abandoning the solution.

The product has good visualization capabilities and helps to see the different dimensions of a plan. 

The tool's corporate pricing is expensive.

Continuous planning is non-supported. Only the quarterly "PI Planning" model is available for many of the most useful road mapping features.  

Dependency management is like throwing work over a wall from one team to another and does not help with engineering-level orchestration of work in delivery.

I have been working with Atlassian products for six years. 

The product's stability is pretty decent. There are some issues when you try to integrate with Jira and Align. The data that goes back and forth creates data management issues due to delays in synchronization.

The product is scalable. 

The support goes through corporate support hence I didn't have much interaction with the support team. 

There was a negative ROI.

I would rate the product a two out of ten. 

We use Jira for scrum-related activity and 80 people use this solution within our company. 

In my current organization, there are limited features that we have adopted. In my previous experience, the Portfolio and Structure feature in Jira is really valuable because it assists with forecasting for projects. 

We have experienced errors with the internal server that occurs frequently. 

I have been using this solution for eight years. 

This is a stable solution. I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

In my previous organization, I contacted the Jira support team for a particular feature and they suggested that we upgrade Jira because there was a bug in that particular version. After upgrading, the issue was resolved.

Jira offers very good GUI. The solution is easy to learn and there is a lot of functionality related to boards and project management-related activities that is offered. There is also good synergy between all the Atlassian products which is why we decided to switch to Jira. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten for pricing. The price of the solution depends on the number of people using it and the projects you are working on. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

Our use cases for Jira Align are particularly project-based. Whenever we go on a project, we utilize the solution, and at the end of the project, we drop that subscription. If needed, we go for a new subscription again.

Jira Align is an easy-to-use and user-friendly solution.

The solution’s stability could be improved.

I have been using Jira Align for four years.

I rate Jira Align an eight out of ten for stability.

More than 50 users are using Jira Align daily in our organization.

I rate Jira Align more than eight out of ten for scalability.

I rate the solution’s technical support a seven or eight out of ten.

Neutral

We also use Azure DevOps.

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

We implemented the solution through an in-house team, which had a couple of people.

We have seen a return on investment with Jira Align.

Jira Align is an expensive solution.

I am using the latest version of Jira Align. Jira Align is deployed on-cloud in our organization.

Overall, I rate Jira Align a nine out of ten.

We use Jira Align for project management, product planning, and reporting.

The most valuable features of Jira Align are its product roadmap and reporting.

Jira Align's user interface needs improvement because its user experience is really bad. It takes around a week to onboard any team member in Jira Align because it has a lot of nuances. The materials used to go through the Jira Align tool are time-consuming and academic. I have used Jira Align for eight years, but I had to keep doing many things with Jira for at least three months to understand everything.

Jira Align doesn't recommend anything. Jira Align should improve its AI offerings because it currently has zero AI. The solution's release notes, user stories, and templates are far more boring.

I have been using Jira Align for eight years.

Jira Align's technical support is very bad. It takes around three days for the technical support team to even reply to a customer on how to resolve some issues.

Jira Align is an expensive solution.

Jira Align is deployed on-cloud in our organization.

Overall, I rate Jira Align six and a half or seven out of ten.

The solution can be used to track and update testing progress. We can use it for test management, creating stories, and grading test cases and plans.

I have been using the tool to write test cases, prepare test plans, and create bugs. I like the way the UI functions.

The initial setup was a little bit complex. It involved many things.

I have been using the solution for three years.

The product is quite stable.

The product is scalable. More than 100 people are using the solution in our organization.

The admin team deploys and purchases the license. We use it whenever there is an account created in our name. We simply log in with our credentials and use the tool.

The tool is moderately expensive.

I recommend the solution to others. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

Our clients use Jira Align for new development and defect tracking.

Defect tracking and dashboards are the most valuable features of Jira Align.

Jira Align should reduce the many information fields we need to provide while closing defects.

Jira Align should improve the ease of use for developers.

I have been using Jira Align for the last five years.

Jira Align is a stable solution.

I rate Jira Align an eight out of ten for stability.

Our clients are mostly medium-sized businesses.

I rate Jira Align an eight out of ten for scalability.

I rate Jira Align an eight out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.

Initially, Jira Align's deployment takes some hours. Otherwise, it is quick to deploy. Initially, to deploy the solution, we had to check the prerequisites on the server and connectivity. Based on these factors, we can install and set it up.

On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate Jira Align a seven out of ten.

I suggest users go through the free training first, understand, and then start using Jira Align instead of using it right away.

Overall, I rate Jira Align an eight out of ten.