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Product Group Lead Warehousing Solutions at Kühne + Nagel (AG & Co.) KG
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Provides transparency in project development and the workflow assists with compliance
Pros and Cons
  • "Transparency of development projects, as well as approval processes for some business projects, has improved massively."
  • "My main concern is the administration of projects, especially user groups, and this requires root access rights but there is no concept of layered admin rights."

What is our primary use case?

We use JIRA for software development projects and the implementation of business workflows. Our company runs more than one hundred projects on a single instance server. Besides core IT projects, we have implemented business processes on dedicated JIRA instances to manage high volume (greater than five thousand issues per month) non-conformities for some business lines. 

How has it helped my organization?

Transparency of development projects, as well as approval processes for some business projects, has improved massively. Interaction of business units and IT happens very often via JIRA and considered to be very helpful. As many of our developments are requiring some level of compliance, the workflow and documentation of approvals are very handy. 

What is most valuable?

There is a very flexible configuration of "issues" and related life cycle. On top of it, the number of "add-ons" is overwhelming and of very good quality. I would consider the reporting capabilities to be the best feature, as ultimately the visibility of issues allows management of the projects.

What needs improvement?

My main concern is the administration of projects, especially user groups, and this requires root access rights but there is no concept of layered admin rights. Projects can be managed by a limited admin, but the creation of projects needs root admin rights. In decentralized project ownership, this gets tedious.

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For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for twelve years.

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

We used an open-source system called Mantis, which was considered unsuitable for use outside the IT world.

How was the initial setup?

The setup of JIRA is straightforward.

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

To try this solution, use their cloud offering to get familiar. After that, it's in my view worth the money.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We went right away to JIRA without evaluating other options.

What other advice do I have?

JIRA, its add-ons, and the Atlassian product world are already very powerful and it is difficult to name significant blank spaces.

This is a very powerful solution. Get some advice and training to make the most out of it. You may miss out on some of the capabilities if you don't.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Principal performance architect at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
User-friendly and helps monitor stories, scrum updates, and Definition of Doneness (DoD)
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature of Jira is the reporting feature, which allows us to track our team's tasks."
  • "The solution's stability could be improved, and it could be made more robust."

What is our primary use case?

I have worked with Jira for agile scrum projects. Jira is a good tool that helps you track and monitor all your stories, scrum updates, and Definition of Doneness (DoD). We can track everything we need to track and pull the reports from the Jira tool. Based on the team's activity, we can monitor, track, and update the tasks we have assigned through Jira. We also use Jira for sprint planning.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of Jira is the reporting feature, which allows us to track our team's tasks. You can export and play around with the reports. In the defect tracking tool, you can pull the data and generate reports with a nice graph. It's very user-friendly. The solution's user interface is intuitive and easy to use.

What needs improvement?

Sometimes, Jira becomes slow when more people use it. Then, we have to close it and log in again. The solution's stability could be improved, and it could be made more robust.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the solution’s stability a seven out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Around 2,000 users use Jira in our organization.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten for scalability.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of the solution is very simple. You can install Jira as a standalone solution. Deploying the solution on the cloud is very, very easy, and then you can access it from anywhere on the cloud.

What other advice do I have?

I have used Micro Focus Quality Center, which is purely a defect management tool. We can also use Jira as a defect management tool. When you compare both tools, Jira is now the best tool for defect management and running scrum projects. You can even expose the Jira APIs to do automation.

If you find a defect, you can automate the process of logging in to Jira and erasing the incident. When you find a defect while running JMeter scripts, you can take the APIs and automate it to save time. The automation process can be done through Jira because it exposes its APIs to third parties to integrate with other tools.

You can expose Jira APIs and integrate the solution with other tools. You can have your own dashboard using the APIs. I would recommend the solution to other users.

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

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Agile Software Architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Stable with good documentation and needs very little maintenance
Pros and Cons
  • "It's a very complete product overall."
  • "It would be ideal if Jira had future functionalities to integrate more easily with various aspects of code reviews."

What is our primary use case?

I am the software developer manager and I use Jira to manage team performance. We're also starting to use Jira for our drives. I used Jira before, for creating user stories from boards, to discuss issues, and many other tasks. Today we use Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket in our work. We practice scrum in our organization.

How has it helped my organization?

It improved with many exiting features to manage user stories, planning and retrospective meetings very productive.

What is most valuable?

The documentation is very good.

The solution is stable.

You can scale the solution easily.

It's comparable to Azure DevOps.

It's a very complete product overall.

What needs improvement?

It would be ideal if Jira had future functionalities to integrate more easily with various aspects of code reviews.

It would be nice if, in the future, Jira worked a bit more like Azure DevOps in order to be able to manage work in progress and have the task measurements in strategies for the stories.

In the future, I would like to have traceability features. For example, when you create a task or a sub-task that's related to code. In this task, if we could create a method for retrieve customer information, that would be helpful. In that case, I would want to train with the source code later.

For how long have I used the solution?

I'm new to the company. Although I've worked with Jira before, I've only been at this company for one week.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Atlassian solutions for me are very good solutions. They are very interesting and very productive. As a user, it is necessary to have a unique portal to make traceability between sub-tasks related to code or programming. You can create and screen or implement a function or a class, related for example to the code that you are pushing in the repository or commit in the repository. If I open the sub-task, I will see the code related to the sub-task. It's very similar like Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps, however, has this functionality for traceability. This functionality will be amazing that Jira would implement something similar.

I prefer to use Azure DevOps instead of Jira for stability or the frequency of use. In my case, for example, I feel that more users, more companies don't think Azure DevOps makes a good choice due to the fact that the cost is higher than Jira.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is very good if you're carrying a lot of projects here, and if the company needs to have a lot of people to PEA development centers in Mexico. Our technicians can easily test the tool and scale it in order to develop projects.

We do plan to increase usage. We're already training more users. We're increasing quickly so that our teams will be ready for upcoming projects.

How are customer service and support?

We have manuals, technical support, and also technical specialists in the company. I haven't had the opportunity to use directly call the technical support from Atlassian, however, the technical documentation that I have reviewed is excellent. We're satisfied with the level of service we have access to.

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

We also use Azure DevOps. They are both very similar. The main difference is Azure offers traceability.

How was the initial setup?

The solution is easy to implement. We have the cloud version of Jira in the company, and we don't worry about maintenance, it's automatic.

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

The cost of Jira is okay. It's better than Azure DevOps. We don't have any licensing fees that I know of.

What other advice do I have?

While I'm new to the company, it's my understanding that it is a partner of Atlassian.

We use the latest version of the solution, as we use the cloud, which updates automatically.

Our company has both Azure DevOps and Jira. I use Jira, and Azure DevOps is used for other purposes. Most projects, all projects that are using Azure DevOps are legacy projects. The new projects and new solutions are using Jira.

On a scale from one to ten, I'd rate Jira at a ten. It's a very good product.

Both tools, Azure DevOps and Jira are at the same level. In terms of preference, I typically choose Azure DevOps for familiarity but not for features. For features, both are the same. For example, Jira has amazing features that Azure DevOps doesn't have, and also Azure DevOps has the flexibility that I like very much. Both tools have different interesting aspects. However, if Atlassian would implement traceability, I would prefer to use Atlassian. For me, it's more complete and allows for smaller teams than Azure DevOps.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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reviewer1208085 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Devops Architect Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Stable and scalable but needs to integrate with other DevOps tools
Pros and Cons
  • "We have around 2000 plus users, so scale wise, there are no issues. We can easily scale up with multiple users."
  • "Jira is a project management tracking tool, and it would be great to see integration with the source front or Azure DevOps, etc."

What needs improvement?

Jira is a project management tracking tool, and it would be great to see integration with the source front or Azure DevOps, etc. The history of tasks, such as check-in and checkout, is not maintained under the particular Jira ticket. For example, in Azure DevOps management for a work item you can find out any chain set and dependency.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using Jira for more than two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have around 2000 plus users, so scale wise, there are no issues. We can easily scale up with multiple users.

What other advice do I have?

I'm coming from an Azure DevOps background, and we use the integration board. It is very easy because the source code is there under one umbrella; however, Jira is not under the Azure DevOps umbrella. If your company is using Azure DevOps or Git as a repository, I recommend using the Azure DevOps board rather than Jira.

I would rate Jira at seven on a scale from one to ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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President/CEO at FACTRSYSTEMS, LLC.
Real User
Beneficial project management, useful dashboards, and reliable
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features of Jira are the dashboards and user interface. The processes within Jira to monitor, maintain and release are beneficial. It is a continuous development solution."

    What is our primary use case?

    We use Jira to manage what is happening in our projects, such as application development lifecycles.

    What is most valuable?

    The most valuable features of Jira are the dashboards and user interface. The processes within Jira to monitor, maintain and release are beneficial. It is a continuous development solution.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I have used Jira within the past 12 months.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    Jira is a reliable solution.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    I have found Jira to be scalable.

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

    The price of Jira could be lower.

    What other advice do I have?

    I rate Jira an eight out of ten.

    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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    reviewer1795125 - PeerSpot reviewer
    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.

    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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    reviewer919272 - PeerSpot reviewer
    Quality Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
    Real User
    Provides very good output and integrates well
    Pros and Cons
    • "Provides good output and is user-friendly."
    • "The automation feature needs to be more user-friendly."

    What is our primary use case?

    Our primary use case is for project management and defect tracking. We are customers of Jira and I'm the quality manager. 

    What is most valuable?

    We use multiple plugins and tools which are integrated with Jira. It provides good output as we expected and we are basically hoping to increase the number of users. It's a user-friendly solution. 

    What needs improvement?

    I think the automation feature needs to be more user-friendly because not everybody knows about coding. The automation should be customized so that it's easier to use. 

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I've been using this solution for four years. 

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    Stability is great now that we've moved to the cloud. 

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    Scalability is good. We initially had 100 users and we now have 250 without any problem. 

    How are customer service and support?

    The support is good and available whenever we need it. We have been interacting with them for our query resolutions, as we have certain challenges that we're dealing with day-to-day.

    How was the initial setup?

    The initial setup was quite straightforward. We used an integrator for deployment. We have a dedicated team for maintaining Jira.

    What other advice do I have?

    I would recommend this solution and rate it nine out of 10. 

    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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    reviewer1141353 - PeerSpot reviewer
    Gerente, Tech Mgmt at a engineering company with 11-50 employees
    Real User
    Helps in tracking features and projects, and allows us to comment almost anywhere
    Pros and Cons
    • "It has enabled us to keep track of features or projects. Previously, we used to manually keep track in Office. We now have a centralized repository for all the information."
    • "I don't know if it's the way it's deployed in the organization, but the interface we are provided is not as customizable as other tools. The multi-language report is not enabled in our installation. I don't really know if it's something related to the tool or our installation."

    What is our primary use case?

    We use it for Kanban boards, bug reports, and some workflows.

    How has it helped my organization?

    It has enabled us to keep track of features or projects. Previously, we used to manually keep track in Office. We now have a centralized repository for all the information.

    What is most valuable?

    I like that you can comment almost anywhere, and you can leave a trail. That's the most useful thing.

    What needs improvement?

    I don't know if it's the way it's deployed in the organization, but the interface we are provided is not as customizable as other tools. The multi-language report is not enabled in our installation. I don't really know if it's something related to the tool or our installation.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    It is pretty good. I haven't had any problem with it.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    We haven't had any problems with scalability. It doesn't feel slow. It hasn't been down. It's working pretty well.

    Its users are in the hundreds, but I don't know specifically. It is available to everyone in the company, and it could potentially be used by anyone. We all are allowed to use it and implement it as we see fit.

    How are customer service and support?

    I have local technical support. That's our first line of support, and they contact Jira technical support if needed. 

    How was the initial setup?

    I'm just a user. I don't know.

    What other advice do I have?

    General advice would be to find out about customization features and multi-language support features.

    I'm not a heavy user of this solution. From what I've used, I would rate it an eight out of 10.

    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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