JIRA Portfolio Reviews

This is an ITSA product. We use it to track business flow. The directors and managers assign tasks to us using Jira. It shows us where our customers are at and their status. I'm a solution architect and DevOps engineer.

The solution has improved our function level because we have a clear view of everything. 

This solution is easy to use with good analysis integration capabilities with other products. Jira has a wide range of functions. 

The solution currently lacks AWS integration and I'd like to see that included. 

We've been using this solution for two years. 

The solution is stable. 

This is a cloud solution so it's highly scalable.

The documentation is sufficient, we don't require any Jira support. 

This is a good solution and I recommend it with a rating of nine out of 10. 

We work in a development environment so there are multiple changes regarding development on the software platform daily. For each change, there may be some issues and some enhancements. A JIRA ticket is created and published with other procedures that can be handled.

JIRA Portfolio has many wonderful features. It is unique in the field of IT work. JIRA Portfolio's broader application, user experience, and integration capabilities are extended if you compare it to the others. For that, it's unique.

The integration capabilities of JIRA Portfolio could be enhanced. For each cloud service provider, effort should be on both sides and bilaterally. There should be an integration of efforts between the cloud service providers' side and JIRA Portfolio because AWS has no JIRA Portfolio integration. Hence, limiting some of the solution's possibilities.

We have been using the solution for approximately five years.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable, and approximately five users utilize it in our organization. We will scale further in line with company growth.

We have had a good experience with customer service and support. I rate them an eight out of ten.

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward and a cloud service, so you only need to organize credentials and configure your environment to get set up.

The pricing of the license is average.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten. The solution is good, but its integration capabilities could be improved.

The initial setup is simple. 

It is very scalable.

The product offers good stability.

Jira has many features that companies can explore to see which ones are best for them and their internal needs. 

Technical support has been good so far.

I haven't seen many drawbacks on the Jira side. 

If you want to generate a report for individual usage, it's difficult. The reporting can be improved.

I've been using the solution for almost two years. 

Its stability is great. We don't deal with bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze.

The product can scale if you need it to as a company.

We are satisfied with the technical support. Overall, I find them to be quite helpful. They are good.

The implementation is straightforward and simple. It's not difficult at all.

If you have a cloud-based solution, you only require four or five staff members to maintain the product.

We had the assistance of an integrator when we set up the solution initially.

We pay a yearly licensing fee. Everything is included in that price. There aren't extra add-on fees to take into consideration. 

We are a customer and an end-user.

I'm using the latest version of the solution. 

I would recommend the product. Companies can use it without having to worry about any hiccups. 

I'd rate the product as a seven out of ten.

I am a software developer and we use this product for end-to-end SDLC. It begins with the requirements gathering, then continues with tracking features and planning our sprints. We also use it for tracking bugs.

The most valuable feature is that it fits very well into an agile framework, and it is especially helpful with the planning aspects. For example, if you create a new ticket, issue, or feature, then you classify it accordingly and you can assign it to an ongoing sprint.

You can look at the sprint backlog to see what features are planned, how many are in progress, and how many have been completed. This helps during reviews because you can get information about the velocity of the team. If somebody should leave the team for a while, or are otherwise unavailable for work, then the velocity calculations are readjusted.

Converting a task into an epic is very troublesome. As it is now, if you make the mistake of creating the wrong thing then you just have to delete it and start again. If you could convert between things such as features and tasks then it would be helpful.

I have been using the Jira Portfolio for about four years.

We use Jira on a daily basis and I cannot recall having any issues with stability.

It is easy to scale but of course, the problem is that it needs licenses. As the licenses fit into a plan, it can be kind of tricky. When you want to procure additional licenses, it is a long path.

For example, if you have licenses for 50 users and you see that you need a license for another 10, then you can't just purchase a small number. At a certain point, you have to move up to 500 users, which is quite a jump.

Currently, we have about 60 users.

I have not been in contact with their technical support team, although I do go through the community forums. I get details on new features that are going to be released and other such information, but I have not had to contact support for any specific issue.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. Somebody who knows Agile well will have no difficulty with Jira. On the other hand, somebody new to Agile may face some problems in the beginning. 

We do not have any dedicated staff for maintenance. For the operation of it, we do have a facilitator and a scrum master who manages things for each project. However, maintenance is very straightforward. We don't need a full-time administrator working on it. A couple of people working part-time can take care of it.

Internally, people within a project may need some help when it comes to things like planning. In this case, they will get help from the scrum master.

We pay our fees annually, although monthly payments are also available.

From a developer's perspective, this tool works fine and I don't have any complaints other than wanting to convert between features, tasks, etc, when a mistake has been made in creating one.

The only advice that I have for people who are implementing Jira Portfolio is to make sure that they manage their licenses properly.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use JIRA for project management.

We were able to implement the Kanban and Scrum methods using JIRA. That was a really good argument. We had been using the waterfall method, so this really helped us to get that out there to our general way of working.

The customized workflows we can define are very valuable. JIRA's private projects are very useful as well. There are also a lot of plugins that they provide.

I think their view needs to be more user-friendly. The UI makes it difficult to find things. Secondly, the configuration is very complex. JIRA should help people find out what configuration they are using.

There are many issues, but I would say the UI needs to be improved most. Also, some training documents need to be there with respect to their configuration. They don't have training documents easily available. You really need to figure it out by yourself. That is something they must improve.

We've been using this solution for six years.

It's quite stable. We have not had any problems.

It's scalable. We currently have 45 users, with six dev users and two people for maintenance. 

We will keep on using it. Whether we expand our use depends on our entire portfolio and the product growth that we are catering to our customers.

It's not that good. I would give it a rating of three out of five, on the basis of price. They need to add improvements because it is not as easy to reach out to these people as necessary. I would expect them to have a call center or something, but they don't have one. We have to write down our messages and send them to support. It is not easy to solve our issues.

It was definitely complex to set up. It was difficult right from the start, by applying the project setting configurations. Popping up the custom fields and relating it to the workflows was also difficult. Identifying a security policy on top of that and adding the group was really complex, too.

Deployment took almost one month's time to set it up and get started.

I would rate this solution as seven out of ten.

Currently, we use the on-premises deployment model but we are moving to the cloud. Amazon is part of it but we are in the evaluation part. Our primary use case is for workflow and regression testing. 

The dashboard is the most valuable feature. The user experience is very good, it's easy to use.

The stakeholders have to decide to use JIRA and that's the problem. Not all the stakeholders are in touch with JIRA but we need their budget for the whole team to get the opportunity to use JIRA. It's not a problem with the tool, it's our organization. Some of the stakeholders have other opinions and they like to use other tools.

The initial setup could use improvement. 

Stability is very good. It's an easy to use and nice tool. We wanted to and we have bought licenses. For the bank, we have 250 users at the moment. We will increase it up to 500 users.

For maintenance, at the moment we just have a crew that takes part in the maintenance. It's only one or two people. 

We don't contact their technical support very often. Most of the things we do by ourselves, and we look for some videos on YouTube for such things. We are in a group and there we get some information about JIRA. For most things we need, we get our own information.

The initial setup was complex. We have Agile teams and we have classic teams and the waterfall development. We have to integrate both and we have to create a workflow that can be used for all of these aspects. Our governance in Germany for a bank is difficult. We have many things to keep in mind.

The deployment only takes two weeks but the difficulty is that we have many systems. Our old system is divided into 10 subsystems, so when we deploy we have to use other things. We must look for every single system. We'd like to integrate with JIRA but at the moment it's not in our book.

I would rate it a seven out of ten. I don't know everything about the solution and every feature. 

We are using this solution to manage an agile project. We are putting JIRA on our backlog, and we are following the work in progress with the Kanban board. 

We have generated a lot of dashboard in-reporting with JIRA Portfolio to monitor the performance of our direction and our projects team. We have a license for 250 users, and we are going to get a license for 500 users. 

The feature that we like the most is that JIRA enables modules. 

Atlassian provides a lot of products around JIRA, such as compliance for the documentation, BitBucket for the Git version. We are new to these products developed by Atlassian, but they can integrate very easily. Generally, when an editor is developing a solution, they think about integrating with JIRA. When we are looking for any other solution, they plan to easily integrate with JIRA. 

We would love to be able to have direct contact with Atlassian. Currently, they are not working directly with West African countries. We are considering using JIRA Align, but when we contact them, they say that as we are in West Africa, they don't directly work with West Africa.

We have been using JIRA Portfolio for about four years, since 2016. 

It is very stable. We had only one issue, but it was not related to JIRA. 

We didn't have to get in touch with the support team. Generally, when we have an issue, we go to the community, and we are able to resolve it very fast.

The initial setup is straightforward. 

The deployment is very easy. We easily do it ourselves without any help. We have a team of two to three people.

Doing digital transformation is difficult. It's not regarding JIRA. It's difficult to change the mindset of our teams to be more agile and to adapt JIRA as a new way of working. We have to change the mindset and the mentality of the teams with a new way of working so that we can move forward. JIRA will help us to be more agile because JIRA is built for agile teams.

We had to work with a consulting team based in France to help us with the organization of the process. Atlassian doesn't directly work with West African countries. So, we had to work with a French company. 

I would rate JIRA Portfolio an eight out of ten.

We use JIRA Portfolio for management. It handles all our stories and we use the dashboards and reports. We are not fully utilizing all the features, and we use Tableau on top of it for our portfolio-level dashboards.

The most valuable features of Jira are the dashboards where we see all the features lined up with the release dates in the portfolio view, it is very good.

The query features should improve in JIRA Portfolio. For example, if I would have to create my own queries for looking into something such as what business features we have released last month, or the last three months, I don't know if I can do it. The solution requires a certain level of expertise.

JIRA Portfolio should work on an intuitive way of querying and having different views, which will help us to track the progress. When things have been visualized they are more easily understood.

I have been using JIRA Portfolio for approximately one year.

I have not contacted technical support, but my installation or administrator team has contacted them.

I would recommend that those wanting to implement JIRA Portfolio do a smaller implementation first. Once they know the features then they can do a full-scale customized implementation for exactly what they need with the appropriate features. 

I rate JIRA Portfolio an eight out of ten.