Technical Project Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
A scalable proprietary issue tracking product with useful test cases
Pros and Cons
  • "I like the test cases in Jira. The orange dash items view was great, and I like the features and layout of the data. It's quite different, and people are now getting their items so quickly."
  • "Sometimes it takes time to load the data."

What is our primary use case?

We are using Jira Interview to handle all the facts from clients and schedule calls with them. We have a different operations department that configures Jira, and we have technical people that help us choose the deployment model. 

The main reason we are using Jira at this time is for a different dashboard and chart. The major one that we are using is for the stock analysis, and it's nice to get that time log for our team, get the score of the game, 40 points delivered in a week or a month. we are using Jira for following purposes:

Issue tracking
Customizable workflows
Estimation & work logging
Progress reporting
Scrum boards
Kanban boards
Project-level permissions
Project backlogs
Email notifications
Roadmaps

How has it helped my organization?

Productivity increased by using this tool and organization can measure the productivity of a resource. early alert being displayed in the case of project failure and success. Org can identified the work load on resources for a day. 

What is most valuable?

We like the test cases in Jira. The orange dash items view was great, and we like the features and layout of the data. It's quite different, and people are now getting their items so quickly. We love the bulk edit feature. Jira also integrates well with Bitbucket.

What needs improvement?

Sometimes it takes time to load the data.

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For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using Jira since 2015.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Performance-wise, Jira is good, but sometimes it takes time to load that data. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Jira is scalable. We have about 470 people working with Jira in our company.

How are customer service and support?

The support team is very helpful and supportive. I requested multiple things and faced some concerns, they were very cooperative and responsive.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Asana. Jira has better work flow and features relative smart and easy to use.

How was the initial setup?

It is easy to set up. We can use project templates. We can use classic projects templates or create new templates. We have also build the custom workflows for the custom templates.  We use templates for our daily progress.

What other advice do I have?

I would tell potential users that they should all get it.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Jira an eight.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud

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IT PMO Project Leader at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
User-friendly and easy to configure, but needs better dashboard reports
Pros and Cons
  • "It is user-friendly, and you can manage your project according to the methodology you want. It is also easy to configure."
  • "The dashboard reports can be improved. Its dashboard reports are good, but you cannot have complex reports. They are currently very basic. For instance, we can only choose two columns for a dashboard, so it is not friendly enough."

What is our primary use case?

We are using it for service management, change management, project management, and tracking the changes.

What is most valuable?

It is user-friendly, and you can manage your project according to the methodology you want. It is also easy to configure.

What needs improvement?

The dashboard reports can be improved. Its dashboard reports are good, but you cannot have complex reports. They are currently very basic. For instance, we can only choose two columns for a dashboard, so it is not friendly enough.

So far, I've only used the project management parts. We are examining resource planning and sample plugins for the product. From my point of view, resource planning is a little bit hard to link with project management. Sample plugins are another part of the system, and we need to link it with project management in the BigPicture screen, which is a little bit hard. It would be valuable for us if we can do resource planning in BigPicture as well. Currently, it is another plugin, and you can only plan based on the people and not projects, and you cannot link it, as far as I know.

For how long have I used the solution?

My company has been using it since the beginning of this year. It has been around six months. I have been using it for three weeks.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable, and everyone generally looks satisfied.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We are trying to settle the project management part and widen it to all countries in our company. There will be many users.

How are customer service and technical support?

We are working with a consulting company. Technically, we are okay because all of us are using it now, and there is no problem. We just need to see more details of some of the modules of Jira.

How was the initial setup?

For its implementation and deployment, they have been working for one year.

What other advice do I have?

Jira is a big platform, and you can use staff management, project management, and other fields that all companies want to use. If you use Jira, you will see the whole IT governance in one system.

With this solution, we can see the full picture in detail, but it can be improved. Resource planning is not easy for our project base.

I would rate Jira a seven out of 10. It will be an eight in the future. I need more time to work on Jira.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Owner at TRS
Real User
Feature-rich, complete, stable, and easy to administer
Pros and Cons
  • "It is a complete solution. It has more features as compared to other tools, especially the open-source one that we use. It is also easy to administer."
  • "Based on the feedback from my admin, it is sometimes difficult to find some of the features. It is not a big deal, but its configuration interface can be improved to make it easy to find things."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution because it comes with some of the products that we are using. It is a part of the package. Our usage is quite basic, and we have not finished exploring and deploying the whole solution.

What is most valuable?

It is a complete solution. It has more features as compared to other tools, especially the open-source one that we use. It is also easy to administer.

What needs improvement?

Based on the feedback from my admin, it is sometimes difficult to find some of the features. It is not a big deal, but its configuration interface can be improved to make it easy to find things.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not deployed it on a very large scale. For now, we have ten users, and it is mostly used for our internal things, but from next week, we're opening it for the community. We'll have a broader experience of the product.

How are customer service and technical support?

We haven't used their technical support so far.

How was the initial setup?

I have not heard of any complaints about the installation. It takes almost half a day to install. It took some time to configure it for different tools that we use, but the installation was straightforward. There is enough documentation for its installation.

What about the implementation team?

We did it on our own. I only have one admin guy for its deployment. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We are a regional research and education institute. We're using the free license provided for educational institutes.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution. I would rate Jira an eight out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Supervisor - Global Software Tools and Processes at Ford Motor
Real User
Good dashboards, and Kanban boards, and links to GitHub
Pros and Cons
  • "Issue linking has enabled teams to trace issues."
  • "The only thing that JIRA doesn't for us is release management in a way that I can create a list of versions easily."

What is our primary use case?

I use this solution for general issue management, software planning, and change management.

How has it helped my organization?

This solution is a one-stop-shop for issues and plans.

What is most valuable?

Issue linking has enabled teams to trace issues.

I like the dashboards and Kanban boards.

The development links to GitHub are critical.

What needs improvement?

The only thing that JIRA doesn't for us is release management in a way that I can create a list of versions easily.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for two years.
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Info Sec Consultant at Size 41 Digital
Real User
Top 5
Perfect for keeping track of large amounts of bugs, tasks queries and releases for fixes.
Pros and Cons
  • "Perfect for keeping track of large amounts of bugs, tasks queries and releases for fixes."
  • "There's been the odd amount of JIRA downtime (not self hosted) and sometimes tickets that can't be accessed."

What is most valuable?

Perfect for keeping track of large amounts of bugs, tasks queries and releases for fixes. 

The SaaS does the job it is supposed to: helps you keep track of your projects. What I like most is the ease of adding users and the obvious nature of what they need to do -  drag and drop is always a win. 

It is cross methodology so Scrum, Kanban... it doesn't matter, you can use JIRA.

I like how it shows the sprints remaining. Being able to instantly see where you are in a project and what is coming up is invaluable. 

Also, the ability to link a programme of projects is very helpful. I can see where all of the teams are with their individual projects but also how they fit into the overarching business plan for the year.

How has it helped my organization?

In reality, it's allowed me to raise and keep track of 700 tickets (bugs, queries, tasks etc) effectively. I can track what tickets are in UAT and which ones are coming out in the next software release. It's very simple. 

It allows all of those involved in a project, to see what stage their deliverables are (depending on what you allow people to view, they can see all deliverables from all teams)

Keeping everything in one central place with it obvious as to who is responsible for what, is a fantastic thing. 

It gives programme managers an overview of how a slew of projects are going. This also provides information for Exec meetings/Board meetings - visuals are always helpful to instantly show people what is happening with a programme of improvements.

Basically it allows me to see what is happening very quickly. 

What needs improvement?

I have no areas of improvement that I would push. JIRA does what I need - it allows me to assign tasks and to update my project. Any problems that I have found have been more to do with people entering with a lack of details - rubbish in = rubbish out. But that is the same with all apps.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used JIRA for over a couple of years, in three organisations, so I have some experience of how different places use it.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

SaaS so nothing to deploy really. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There's been the odd amount of JIRA downtime (not self hosted) and sometimes tickets that can't be accessed. 

How is customer service and technical support?

I've not had need to contact the customer support team so I suppose that is a good thing.

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Lead Technical Solutions Architect at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
I like the usability for our users and flexibility for our admin.

What is most valuable?

Usability for our users and flexibility for our admins.

How has it helped my organization?

JIRA and Confluence have taken off here like wildfire. Our users enterprise-wide have made excellent use of these tools.

What needs improvement?

Performance and Scalability in a large enterprise could be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

4-5 years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Not with deployment, but growing pains as fast as we have grown in the last few years with JIRA. We now have 7 different instances of JIRA.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Yes – we wished we would have stayed on the simple path of using the product with fewer add-ons and customization. Most of the complexity is add-ons and customizations that we have chosen to do and likely we have taken some of those too far.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Yes...We would really like to see JIRA scale into 10-100 millions issue range.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Took some getting used to but great!

Technical Support:

Took some getting used to but great!

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We switched because we wanted to remove over 3000 Lotus Notes applications. 30-40% of those applications were replaced with JIRA or Confluence.

How was the initial setup?

Atlassian products seem to be very simple and straightforward if you use it simply and stick with what comes with the product. The complexity and complication comes when you introduce add-ons and customizations. The other observation is that Atlassian products seem to be less ‘conditioned’ for larger enterprises.

What was our ROI?

The ROI on Atlassian products has been tremendous. It’s been well worth the investment!

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We chose JIRA/Confluence as they were solutions we can get up and running quickest, and also cheap.

What other advice do I have?

Keep it simple. . . minimize the add-ons and customizations!

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Cyber Security Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Good performance, with real-time collaboration, but the integration could be improved
Pros and Cons
  • "We integrate Jira with QRadar which is helpful."
  • "I would like to see more integration available with more tools."

What is our primary use case?

We use Jira for ETCM. It's for ticketing with QRadar.

What is most valuable?

We integrate Jira with QRadar which is helpful.

The performance is quite good.

It has real-time collaboration. 

It provides good visual data easily.

What needs improvement?

While Jira integrates well with QRadar, it is not integrated with Splunk for example.

I would like to see more integration available with more tools.

For how long have I used the solution?

Jira is not used in my company; in fact, it is not used at all. Jira is a project management tool that I use at school and during my internship.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Jira is stable. I have not experienced any issues with the stability of Jira.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not had any issues with the scalability of Jira.

How are customer service and support?

They provide technical assistance. Whenever you need something technical, they are quick to respond.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

The price seems reasonable to me. It's very similar to Splunk. 

I don't believe it is expensive. 

I'm not sure if they provide a free version, but we need free versions of everything to try before we buy. 

I believe we simply require a longer, free version.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is simple. I didn't do it myself, but I've read the support, the guide, and it appears to be simple.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I did some research for a school project. I needed to compare it to Splunk and a few other tools. As a result, I'm not particularly interested in purchasing them.

What other advice do I have?

I don't use Jira very often, and I don't have a lot of experience with it.

I would rate Jira a seven out of ten.

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Vice President Quality Management at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Very scalable and stable and quite useful for agile shops
Pros and Cons
  • "I like that all of the team members on an agile team can use it. No one is in a separate application."
  • "The reporting needs to be better."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution for all issue reporting. The business uses it and we use it in IT as well. Any issue, anything from the help desk to software issues use Jira. It can house test plans, test sets, test executions, and provide some reporting. It's the reporting that's important for us.

How has it helped my organization?

The product has formalized the workflow process for reporting tracking and stacking and processing issues. It's also added some formal approvals, just for the purpose of formalization of a process workflow.

What is most valuable?

If you're using it in an agile shop, the traceability between epic story's test case defects is very helpful. 

I like that all of the team members on an agile team can use it. No one is in a separate application.

The stability is good.

The product can scale, so long as you have storage.

What needs improvement?

The reporting needs to be better. Being able to do some test management would be useful. In the tool, it would be ideal if they could give you some out-of-the-box reports for things like requirement coverage and regression and things of that nature.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution off and on for about four years. I used it when it first came out to do some evaluation and we implemented it at a startup. That was when it first started. I've probably only really used it for about eight months on a daily basis.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have had no downtime, and therefore I don't have anything to say that would be negative. It seems to be quite stable. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

As long as a company has the money for storage, it's scalable to any size. A small company can use it or an enterprise-level company can use it. It works for both.

Currently, we have less than 1,000 users in our organization using the solution.

Jira is extensively used in our organization.

We do plan to increase usage as well. The company purchased it so that it would be scalable. There's not a solid plan right now to add measurable users or increase the size, however, we know that it's available and that's what we were looking for - something that is scalable. The plans are to grow and as that growth happens, either organically, or via the purchase of other financial entities, we can grow the size of the database application and the number of the users.

How are customer service and support?

I did not personally use technical support. I have worked several months with the people who have, and they say that the support is very good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

If the company used something previous to Jira, it was before my time. It possibly could have been Sharepoint, however, I was not with the company at that time.

How was the initial setup?

The solution was implemented before I came to the company.

That said, my understanding is that the company tried to use as much out-of-the-box functionality as possible and it was quite an effort. They spent quite a lot of time formalizing workflows and things of that nature. In the end, it was very well thought out.

We do have a team for maintenance and what takes the most time with any upgrade is going through the changes, the enhancements, the defect fixes, and things like that. The actual time that it takes to physically update it is pretty minimal. However, going through the documentation and meeting with the team to make sure that we have testing covered prior to upgrading is work. We have a test environment prior to pushing it to production. That's what really takes time. It's not the physical update. An update might take two and a half hours and there's a lot of data in there.

What about the implementation team?

My understanding is the company used professional services from Jira and also got some training and stuff of that nature.

What other advice do I have?

We're just customers and end-users.

We just upgraded the solution. We are on the latest version.

I'd advise potential users to make sure that they talk to the people who are going to be testing and make sure that they know, what metrics they need before they pick a tool, any tool - even if it isn't Jira.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
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