Jira Align Reviews

The epic linking part is the most valuable aspect of the solution. Of course, the story point where we give and it really gets displayed in the scrum board. It helps us a lot.

The reporting structure is great. It has a good burndown chart. Those are really good.

It's quite straightforward to set up. It's very user-friendly.

Support responds very quickly.

I remember in my previous engagement, there was a plugin we enabled to add features. One is the epic, and then comes the feature, and then comes the user story. If you go with the standard version, you have an epic and try to do a user story. I also remember we used the feature using a plugin in the previous project. If that can be made available not as a plugin but as a standard way of doing things. That feature kind of category is missing.

What happens with the plugins, is that not every customer will agree to install a plugin. Some are paid and they come back asking, "Why do you need this plugin? You have to pay an extra cost." Rather, if you make it as a built-in functionality, it would be better. It should be part of the standard solution, not as a plugin.

There is some capacity planning kind of a feature out there. I tried to use it, however, it was really not clear how to use it, how it gets reflected and all. It would be helpful if they had something for capacity planning that was simpler to understand. 

I've used the solution for six or seven years. 

The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

If there is any scale from one to five, it's really good. I would give it five out of five.

The entire team uses the Jira board. The scrum master or the project manager is given additional privileges to configure the swimlane, configure the team, and all those things. 

We are given an email ID. I'm not a Jira admin, however, I am an owner of a few projects within the Jira in the customer instance. However, whenever there is an issue, we do send out an email. Ultimately, internally, it is aligned to one of the Atlassian support people. I have hardly seen them taking more than an hour or two to get back to us. 

Recently, we had an instance where the Jira was completely down, and we were worried about all the stand-up calls, how to run, them, et cetera. However, within an hour, it was all back up and running again. The support is good. they are very quick.

The initial setup is easy to set up. It's not complex or difficult. 

There is not too much maintenance needed.

The deployment is completely outside of Jira, except for putting it up for tracking purposes. No integration is done from Jira itself to handle any deployment activities.

I don't have visibility of the cost.

We have our own instance of Jira. That is not used for any customer project. It's more for our internal. When I work for a customer, the customer has their own instance and there is a license and we use their Jira. We don't expose our internal Jira instance to any of them unless they want to pay for a license and set up their board, which no customer would do.

We have a licensed version. It's the latest version, definitely. However, I haven't really checked it and therefore don't know the exact version number. On the customer sites, I don't have any information as to what version they use. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

My company uses the solution for processing claims, specifically motor claims.

In my company, we found the solution to have many issues regarding its ability to handle claims and other processes since the solution is not available on a single window. The solution needs to be more simplified and should have more integration capabilities.

In my company, we found that the solution has a lot of integration problems between the communication channel and other related areas, because of which we cannot find any dashboards to connect directly from our client. It is difficult to integrate Jira Align with other products. We currently use Smartflo for communication purposes offered by Tata Tele Business Services since we want to integrate it with Jira Align to get our toll-free number as 1800. We face issues because of the integration problems between Jira and Smartflo. The aforementioned areas can be considered for improvement in the solution.

In the future, Jira Align should integrate and include an Indian toll-free number in its communication channel.

I have been using Jira Align for about six months. I don't know the version of the solution I use. My team uses the solution in our organization. My company is a customer of Jira Align.

In my company, ten people use the solution.

My company has contacted the solution's technical support. My team is not updated about the current situation regarding support since our company's IT manager handles the part related to technical support. Compared to the past, the support has improved a bit.

I read the technical support team of Jira Align a five out of ten.

Neutral

The deployment phase of Jira Align wasn't difficult. Jira Align does need a third-party component, like Twilio, that doesn't work in India if I want to integrate Smartflo's phone dialer in Jira Align.

The pricing aspect of the solution falls under the higher side of the spectrum. I have been looking at solutions available at lower rates.

My company pays approximately 399 USD per month for the solution. Maintenance and support are already included in the monthly costs paid towards the solution.

I am not satisfied with Jira Align, and because of this, I am looking at other solutions, like Zoho Desk, since it offers a complete ticket management system. Zoho Desk provides a single window compared to Jira Align, so we can integrate every solution in a single window. Jira Align is a little bit complicated to handle my ground-level work since it is a project management tool and not a ticket management system. My company is specifically looking for a solution that functions as a ticket management system.

Our company is currently looking at Zoho Desk since one of our technical members can easily handle the product going to previous experience with the tool.

My company is looking for a tool with a single dashboard that allows us to integrate Smarflo's phone dialer, but Jira could not provide any API links for such an integration.

I rate the overall product a six out of ten.

In my company, the solution is used for managing our day-to-day activities like kanban and scrum.

We have a scrum team in our company. We had adapted scrum long ago. We have been an agile team for a long time now. We do have many use-case stories and backlog items. As and when we get any backlog items, we record all those things in Jira and then build a kanban board and scrum board to take care of with our daily activities.

Jira Align has been quite a helpful tool for us because, without it, we would be juggling with all our story points or our backlog items, which would be difficult to manage. We were earlier managing all those things in Excel and other document tools. With Jira Align, everything looks quite organized since it gives us one place or acts as one solution for all our admin activities. Jira Align does not just help with the admin activity. Jira Align helps with the planning and helps its users know what was completed and is still pending. We can see all the backlog items and then analyze the workflow, which is quite helpful. We do have the reporting functionality in Jira Align, allowing us to take care of all the tasks and the backlog items from Jira and then build up some dashboards and other reports for senior management.

The most valuable features of the solution are Jira Align's dashboards and its ability to build customized reports because we have multiple teams here. Multiple people work on the same big chunk of activity, usually broken down into many tasks. With Jira Align, we get to know what task is assigned to which employee while analyzing the workload and identifying what is still pending, what is in process, and what or how many tasks were completed, which is helpful for us to manage a project. To manage our day-to-day activity, dashboard and reporting features are the most helpful.

An area of room for improvement is related to Jira Align's simplicity. Someone who is new to Jira or doesn't have many years of working experience in Jira Align gets easily lost because everything looks the same in the product. The navigational and other workflow features in Jira Align aim to provide ease of use that sometimes creates difficulty for a newcomer or someone new to Jira to get to know where they are once they are in the system. In Jira Align, the navigational feature or the ability to cross over to each screen should be made more precise, and then it would be much more helpful for someone new to Jira.

I have been using Jira Align for seven years. Our organization is a customer of Jira.

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

In my workplace, we have 15 members, who are IT specialists, and mostly developers or architects working with Jira Align.

As of now, we haven't considered increasing the product's use.

I haven't had any experience with the solution's technical support since the tool was always intact and running.

I rate the initial setup a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one point is difficult, and ten is easy.

As a new user, I faced some difficulties when just starting to use Jira Align.

The deployment process takes around half a day, like four to five hours.

The installation phase was done in-house.

Two people, including the agile lead and product owner, are required for the maintenance of the solution.

I recommend Jira Align to those who do not have to handle a lot of backlog items because it gives you a one-stop solution to manage the workflow and then build insights, dashboards, or reports. Jira would be a much more enhanced option rather than using simple Excel sheets or other primary tools.

As a product, I am very much comfortable with it. My only suggestion related to its improvement would be simplifying its overall navigation.

Overall, I rate the 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.

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.

I'm a Jira application architect, and I support a major client. They use Jira Align to connect the business strategy to the work that's being done by the delivery teams. I adapt and implement the tool that supports their business processes. Sometimes I'm a release train engineer where I plan the work that's being done by multiple teams.

Being able to do PI planning, using the program levels is most valuable. I find that the program-level reporting is most useful.

However, I believe that each user would answer the question differently as it's a complex software used by many users. 

I would like to see Jira Align merge and integrate better with Jira as a whole. A lot of the time, the data from Jira won't map very well into Jira Align.

This tool is very stable.

This tool is very scalable. 

We have 5,000 people using this tool.

We pay a lot of money for them to provide support. I would rate their support a five on a scale from one to five.

Positive

The implementation is a little complex and took six months.

I deployed it onto a machine and installed it. The installation doesn't take too long because it is hosted by the vendor. However, the configuration of the tool does take a long time. I've been working on it for two years and I'm not done yet because more and more portfolios and teams are onboarding. 

This product is expensive.

Your business will need to understand the transformation as they are transforming into an agile business. Once you know that the transformation training is on track, then you can use this tool. If it is not on track, then the tool is not going to provide any real help. It is important to understand how you will adopt this tool.

I would rate Jira Align an eight out of ten. It is a pretty effective and powerful tool, but you will need to know what you're doing and the implementation to support your business is challenging. Part of the challenge comes from the fact that businesses are risk overt. People are afraid of failure and tend not to change, but if they are looking for a new tool I would suggest Jira Align, as it is very effective and helpful.

Our primary use case is for running agile sprints, for our weekly planning, task tracking, assignments, milestones, and reporting. I also use the burndown charts, velocity measurements, and developer productivity. We are customers of Jira.

I like the solution's ability to create a backlog and in the latest version, the epic view is very useful, you're basically creating a backlog and then dragging and dropping into the sprint. It's very cool. I also like the velocity and the reporting which provides good visibility, burndown charts, and particularly velocity measurement. I've found their email integration very useful and they have a configurable way of adding attributes. They have some of the mandatory fields, some of which are more advanced. The solution has an easy learning curve with the good documentation they provide. For power users, it's very useful.

One aspect that could be improved is that a ticket is declared as completed only when it is in the last column of the Jira board, regardless of the state it's in so that completed tickets don't get picked up because it goes by column rather than status. It's an annoying feature of Jira which they could improve. They could also add additional reporting capabilities. If I want to look at a graph of the performance and progress of a particular developer, I can't do that. GitHub gives a lot of good statistics on developer activity, productivity, and I'm not getting it here. It would be a useful thing to have. 

Another feature I would love to have is an inline ticket creation from the  board. Right  now, I have to move to backlog, create ticket and then come back. 

I've been using this solution on and off for the last 10 years.

There are no issues around stability. Solution is available as a software as a service. I have not faced any outages or bugs which affect our work so far. Its been fairly stable. 

I haven't had any performance issues in terms of scalability. We only have 10 users and it's working well. I know Jira is also used by enterprise organizations, so I don't think scalability is an issue. 

I have used FreshRelease and Rally before. When I moved on, I had several options and found Jira hosted by atlassian to be the most viable solution for our startup. It works well so I'll stick with it. key point was it was integrated well with other tools used by us. 

The initial setup was straightforward, it's available over the web browser so there's no installation, it's just a matter of registering. The whole thing would have taken an hour maximum. It's pretty seamless. 

well, clarity in terms of what we need to do this week. This reduces friction and translates into velocity and productivity. 

The cost is $3 per user. So I'm paying $24 for eight users. We're just having an issue with the license flipping back to a free plan each week and I need to raise a ticket on that. Otherwise, it's seamless. 

Have used other solutions in the past. Jira was chosen because it seemelssly integrated with bitbucket and confluence and provides an integrated collaboration environment. 

Jira is great for small and enterprise organizations. I highly recommend it for startups. Another benefit is that Atlassian gives me Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello, they're a useful stack. I can use Jira for project management and agile management, Confluence for content collaboration, Bitbucket for code repository management and Trello can be used for a daily to-do list. It's all integrated. Atlassian has the key advantage of having been in the market for a long time.

I rate the product nine out of 10. 

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.