JIRA Portfolio Reviews

JIRA Portfolio gets used by my company's customers for its capabilities, like portfolio management, project management, and generating high-level project reviews for their CXOs.

The most valuable features of the solution for my customers are the product's ability to generate dependency reports and provide the basic view where they evaluate the task status, like to which team it got assigned with respect to certain versions and how they are placed.

In general, the valuable features of the tool are its capabilities concerning dependency reports and task status.

The team-centric view is slightly weaker in JIRA compared to its competitors, especially considering how I can evaluate how each resource has been placed, not just in one project but across JIRA. JIRA fails to showcase particular information missing, including how resources are placed and the capacity in the coming weeks or in a particular time zone.

The product's scalability should be improved in the future. The big setback when I look at JIRA Portfolio is that though we provide multiple kinds of templates, like JWM or JSM, in place, JIRA doesn't give you an option where you can play with multiple kinds of project methodologies. If you look at the bigger picture, Atlassian gives you a box mechanism where it has an approach where it provides lean, LeSS, and waterfall as well, and that particular flavor is missing in JIRA Portfolio.

I have been using JIRA Portfolio for the last four years. My company has a partnership with Atlassian. My company is a platinum partner of Atlassian in India. I use the solution's latest version.

It is a stable solution since I haven't faced any issues. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

My customers are mostly enterprise-sized businesses. My company does serve medium segment clients as well. With respect to JIRA Portfolio, we get many queries from enterprise customers.

The delay in response from the solution's technical support causes us to beat around the bush to identify the exact issue. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

Positive

On a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the initial setup an eight or nine since it is not that difficult. We can do a little bit of customization, and configuration is pretty much straightforward.

The solution is deployed on Atlassian Cloud.

The time taken for deployment depends upon the configuration of JIRA Portfolio and what its users do with it. Depending on what the customers want from the tool, it may take a day to a week.

On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a six. The product is slightly on the inexpensive front considering its competitive feature at the pricing point it offers.

If an organization requires just the reporting or portfolio view at a high level and is majorly operating on the agile front, JIRA Portfolio is the right product for them. If a company has multiple project methodologies and wants something beyond just a Gantt view in BigPicture might be the right choice.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We use the tool to track issues and develop pipelines. We also use it for versatile projects in the IT department. It helps to track KPIs, present progress to the business with dashboards, and complete the QA team's plans.

What I like about the product is its extensive features, particularly the wide set of attributes for tracking issues. Jira Portfolio allows us to track not only the overall project but also specific components within it. This is beneficial for all stakeholders, including developers and business owners. For example, business stakeholders can track all issues, regardless of status. 

When using a scrum board, it only shows the current or open sprint. However, we also need to see past and future sprints, which is important for planning the next sprint. To solve this, we tried using a Kanban board instead, but since we follow the Scrum methodology, it's not the ideal solution.

I have been using the product for one and a half years. 

I haven't encountered any system issues myself. During my time with the company, we've had at least one upgrade of Jira Portfolio. 

My company has around 30-50 users for Jira Portfolio. We have around 100 licenses. 

The solution's support is good. 

We know about Jira Portfolio's work and capacity planning features. However, we do not use them. Instead, we use KPIs relevant to our business. I rate the overall solution as nine out of ten. 

I would recommend the product for IT project teams because of its stability and wide range of functionalities. Although we don't use the capacity plan feature, I recommend it. It's very useful for various purposes. 

We have integrated the tool with Lucidchart and Power BI. It has add-on functionality. 

We use JIRA Portfolio for project management and delivery. We follow a Kanban board for new tasks, schedules, releases, bugs, and enhancements. Every new project is onboarded on JIRA Portfolio.

JIRA Portfolio is easy-to-use and has a lot of data we can track easily. The solution has good reporting and is very user-friendly. The developers can pick it up easily, and the solution's collaboration is very nice. It helps resolve a lot of collaboration issues, requirement issues, and also the metrics part. We can track the metrics straightforwardly and then see where we stand and what needs to be done.

It would be really nice if the solution provided a heads-up every time they enhance something or add new features. Recently, we had an issue because they changed the structure of using demo accounts. We didn't have any heads up and were struggling with what to do and how to go about it. We had to reach out to a lot of people, ask if they were also facing the same issue, and then we finally had to figure it out ourselves.

JIRA Portfolio is an amazing tool, but it would be much simpler if it provided a heads-up about how to go about new changes beforehand. The documentation for these changes is available online, but it's too much. If the solution comes up with a change, it should only provide information for that particular change. Otherwise, we'll have to spend a lot of time looking into a lot of documentation.

I have been working with JIRA Portfolio for four years on a continuous basis.

JIRA Portfolio is a stable solution. We've not come across bugs in the solution.

JIRA Portfolio is a scalable solution with no storage, user, or project issues. Around 18 users are using the solution in our organization.

Initially, when we had to configure the solution, we contacted its technical support team, which is well organized.

Before JIRA Portfolio, we used Microsoft Project, which was messy and painful with its Excel sheets.

The best thing about JIRO Portfolio is that its initial setup is very easy. You can start a Kanban board in a couple of minutes and then start communicating and adding users.

Our organization has seen a return on investment with JIRA Portfolio regarding the ease and the issues in managing the project or program, collaborative and documentation issues, and requirement issues. With JIRA Portfolio, there's improvement in the processes, the execution, and the delivery time.

We use a cloud version of the JIRA Portfolio.

My suggestion would be to come up with a customization plan or a business case regarding what you need for a particular project and what is possible and what is not possible with JIRA Portfolio. Then, present that business case to the technical team to avoid issues later.

I've seen scenarios where we didn't put forth a particular question and had to reconfigure and move everything to a new project. It's best to understand the project requirements and then configure accordingly to avoid such a situation.

Overall, I rate JIRA Portfolio a nine out of ten.

Everyone mentions tasks using JIRA. It is used for various everyday tasks, including dashboards, sprints, backlogs, and workloads.

It has been very efficient for internal communication and managing different data and work projects. It tracks the progress, the development, and more. 

It is one of the important tools and one can easily maintain and manage the tasks in JIRA. 

The workflow and bucket features are most helpful. We never have code changes without a linked JIRA case. Code changes are linked to JIRA, and you can see the code changes within Jira.

 The roadmap in our capacity planning features impacted the project management. We're transitioning from Bitbucket to GitLab and JIRA, which are linked to GitLab. This change is necessary due to this transition.

The focus will be on commits. The focus will be on checking the message, confirming drastic data as a prefix. If not, then the commit will be rejected.

The products are getting bigger. So, learning JIRA is not so easy. There is a learning curve. 

It is not easy to understand all the workflows. 

I have been using it for seven years. 

I would rate the stability an eight out of ten. Sometimes, if you have a version change, even if you follow the process of "open," "in progress," "in review," "progress class," then "closed branch," and finally "close Jira," you might only change one line of code. But you still have to go through the internal process. It's modified coaching. It still goes over the entire process in ten minutes.

There are around 500 end users in the company. 

The customer service and support are good. 

We have a standalone team for the setup. 

It provides the most functions and is very agile, lean scrum. 

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

I would recommend JIRA. It is based on Agile only. So if you want to learn JIRA, you first learn Agile office knowledge or cloud or function, something like this. Then you can understand JIRA too.

We use the solution for software development management. It includes the timeline and the requirement definition.

As a project management team, we’re supposed to manage the teams that develop different products. It can be hectic if we don't have a tool. With JIRA, it's very easy and seamless. All the teams can give their updates, check on their backlogs, and work on them.

The ability to move across various stages from solution discovery to completion is valuable. We can assign specific tasks to users. We can also see the timeline and the progress of the projects. It makes our work easy and efficient. The tool helps us achieve more within the stipulated timeline and budget.

JIRA and Confluence must be linked automatically. What I change on JIRA must be updated in Confluence if it is related. If a task has been completed in JIRA and is mentioned somewhere in Confluence, the status must also be updated on Confluence.

I have been using the solution for one year.

I rate the tool’s stability an eight out of ten.

The product is scalable. I rate the scalability a nine out of ten. Approximately 50 people are using the tool in our organization. We are planning to increase the usage in the future.

I rate the ease of setup an eight out of ten.

I rate the pricing a six out of ten on a scale where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

Before using the solution, we were working manually. I would recommend the solution to others. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

We use it for ticketing and project planning, and documentation, mainly for ticketing, department-wise ticketing, for the creation.

The most valuable feature for me is the visualization and organizing of the tasks. We can have a pick, and then we can stick the multiple issues under that, and then we can again have a sort of hierarchical installation, and that's very useful. 

And I've even worked with multiple analysts, like, for services, and I work on Jira. 

There is room for improvement in terms of scalability. 

I have been using this solution for five years. 

The solution is very stable. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. Everyone in our organization use Jira. So, there are more than a thousand end users. 

I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. There is some room for improvement.

We experienced one to two downtimes in a year. However, it was supported by our internal tech support team.

I have worked with other solutions as well but as far as my real experience, one of the best tools that they can go for is Jira.

We are using the SaaS version, so we need to set it up on our own site.

Just the user sign-up, and then the central SSO system. We have our own SSO with Microsoft Azure, so it should be pretty straightforward.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. It is a good solution. 

We are using JIRA Portfolio life cycle management.

The solution can be deployed on the cloud and on-premise. However, most clients choose cloud deployment. Not all of our clients have their own database.

The most valuable feature of the JIRA Portfolio is for managing teams of 10 or more. It can track the program level and portfolio. There are plenty of beneficial features, such as the hierarchy-level view, customization, and structure plugin. 

The interface JIRA Portfolio could improve.

I have used JIRA Portfolio within the last 12 months.

I have not faced any challenges with the stability of the solution.

I rate the stability of the JIRA Portfolio a six out of ten.

The scalability should improve in JIRA Portfolio.

I rate the scalability of JIRA Portfolio a seven out of ten.

Sometimes there are difficulties receiving support from the vendor. They do not answer immediately.

I rate the support from JIRA Portfolio five out of ten.

Neutral

The setup of the cloud deployment is simple. The solution has over 2,000 plugins and research is needed to determine which one is the best to use and implement.

The cloud deployment takes a few clicks from the mouse to finish. It can be done quickly.

The solution should be overall more user-friendly.

There are free plugins available, but most of them are at an additional cost. Additionally, other services are an extra cost.

This is a great tool for life cycle management.

I rate JIRA Portfolio an eight out of ten.

We use JIRA Portfolio to implement the scaled agile methodology and conduct retrospectives. It's also used by us for writing bugs and managing our daily structure.

The workflows are the most valuable feature of the solution, whether for tasks, bugs, or chain requests from the site. I also like the solution's GUI, which is easy to navigate for everyone.

I think the solution can improve in graphs and the analysis part.

Considering what I would like to see in the solution that could simplify my life, I would like to mention Miro. Currently, we have to visit Miro specifically to carry out PI planning.

I use the cloud version of JIRA daily for the standards and traceability of defects coming from a point. I am unsure whether I am using JIRA Align or JIRA Portfolio. However, I think it is JIRA Portfolio because it has everything developed adequately for dev track, dev caller, and dev dash. Also, it has everything JIRA provides.
I think I have been using JIRA for three years. Also, I'm not sure about the version of JIRA that we are using in our organization. Since I work for a very big company in the Netherlands, the company manages all the tooling-related matters. So, only the testers and developers have access to the version information.
I am a customer of JIRA Platform.

The integration platform for the tooling now available is very easy to use, requiring no expertise in computer science engineering or any such related fields. Simply select the desired options from the provider's interface and use the tool without the need for explicit configuration. For these reasons, I rate this solution an eight out of ten.