Jira Reviews

Similar to the whole solution stack, we use Jira for security and for operational data storage. We also use it for custom-made API structures, moving data from the cloud to legacy on-prem infrastructures so we can use it to develop failing interfaces. We're customers of Jira and we license the solution. Our company has a form of strategic alliance where we buy the product, pay the fees and use the solution. I'm a senior technical project manager.

The benefit of Jira to our company is that the product is extensible. We can integrate other tools and different interfaces into it. You can look at what's being done, how it's being done and know how to improve it. That includes things like optimizing performance or scanning the structures we build for security vulnerabilities. Extensibility is the most effective way we can create products and services for our clients.

The value of this product is that it offers a common language set so we can bring people into projects and get them up and running almost immediately. We know the language. It's the training and education content that's key and there's enough out there, whether it's paid training or free training, that gets people up to speed pretty quickly. Following on from that is optimizing the training for a given initiative or project. 

Although this is a somewhat old-school approach, we'd like to see some common building block approaches to certain things. We do a lot of coding and swapping things because there's a lot of common non-functional capabilities we have to share based on our own company policies. In that sense, it would be helpful to have some sort of modular building blocks that are in some of these up-and-coming extensible capabilities, like how you interface the next level of security scanning code or cloud to cloud capabilities, anything like that would be an improvement. These are expensive things to build and give out for free. At least knowing what's in the headlights for the products together with some good specific industry demos would help, whether related to the financial sector, healthcare sector, whatever. There isn't a lot of that; as things stand, they're generally offering demos with people talking about how you could have a secure way of developing a code for a HIPAA mixed standards or whatever. More documentation on how to precisely use the solution, particularly in a given industry sector, would be helpful.

We use a lot of third-party monitoring and although the extensibility is there, a monitoring tool suite as you get in production would be helpful. 

I've been using this solution for 10 years. 

This is a good product, it's served us well. I don't really have a lot of issues with it so I rate the solution eight out of 10. 

I use the solution in my company as an ITSM tool. Our company's service desk and those working with the engineering team use the tool.

The integration between Confluence and Jira, along with Jira's ticketing system, is a valuable feature the product offers its users.

I opted for Jira since it was offering ITIL V4, and there seems to be a compatibility between ITIL V3 and ITIL V4.

From an improvement perspective, it would be better if Jira could offer more in the area of data analytics similar to what Power BI and Qlik offer to users. The tool currently lacks in the area of data analytics.

Jira needs to consider lowering its prices considering the competition in the market.

I have noticed a problem with Jira in the Philippines. In the Philippines, there are only a few companies that offer local support, which is alarming. In my previous company, when we requested support, basic support was not provided, and we had to schedule and deal with everything on our own.

I have been using Jira for around two years. I am a user of the solution.

It is a stable solution.

It is a pretty much scalable solution.

The solution's technical support is good. I rate the support a nine out of ten.

Positive

I have experience with ManageEngine and ServiceNow. If I need to deal with a project involving retail business, then Jira would be a poor choice because dealing with a retail business requires a tool to have an approach different from what Jira offers. Compared to ServiceNow, Jira is a bit better.

The product's initial setup phase was straightforward.

The solution is deployed on the cloud.

The solution can be configured within a week or so. If there are changes to be made in the solution, then it requires more time to configure it.

If I compare Jira's licensing model with that of other products, I think that the other products have a much better licensing model. Considering what is happening in the market presently, and as people are moving away from Jira and ServiceNow, more and more people have started embracing cheaper products in the market. I rate the product's price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

It is important to know that my company uses the free version of the solution since we are not a big organization. My company is currently looking into the configurations and other areas before going for the paid version of the solution.

Performance-wise, Jira is a good solution, but the problem lies in the part of its licensing area.

I rate the product's price an eight out of ten.

We use Jira mostly for task coordination and assignment. Additionally, scrum methodologies defined work items and bug issues. If we create any bugs all of them are fixed.

Jira can improve by making methodologies better, such as scrum and agile. Additionally, improvements in Kanban boards are needed.

I have been using Jira for approximately five years.

The stability of Jira is good.

Jira is scalable, this is in part because in our company we use it on the cloud.

We have not needed to use the support from Jira. It is easy to find information on Google or any other search platform. If we encounter an issue we can find the solution online.

The initial setup of Jira was simple.

The standard package of Jira is for 100 users. They should offer more packages for other increments, such as 500 or 2,000. In my previous company, there was a free package that provided a minimal number of users.

I rate Jira an eight out of ten.

I primarily use the solution for project management. 

The product is quite easy to use and simple to navigate.

The solution isn't too difficult to learn.

It's flexible and it can provide a lot of different options, such as dashboards, that you can create and manage. You can really tailor-make your own dashboard depending on your needs.  

It's quick and very stable. 

I don't see many issues while I'm using it.

You can basically communicate with all kinds of different teams that are using Jira and you can do that under the product, as a single platform.

Sometimes the solution doesn't communicate well with other platforms. It's quite difficult to integrate things and make the data flow from A to B, to Jira, and then back to other areas.

Nowadays, you see a lot of product management tools, like monday.com and they are very user-friendly. They offer features that allow for cosmetic changes, and you can actually change the color and the form to your own liking. ira is lacking some of that flexibility. It's not critical, however, for the wider user base, many would like to see that.

I've been using the solution for three years. It's been a while. 

Overall, the performance of the tool is quite reliable with few bugs or glitches, and it runs very fast in the browser It doesn't crash or freeze.

The solution can handle a lot of tickets. I've seen it handle more than 10,000 with no problem. It's almost unlimited in terms of scalability.

I'm a customer and an end-user.

I'm using the latest version of the solution right now. I cannot speak to the exact version number we are on currently.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. We've been very happy with its capabilities. 

I would recommend the solution, as it is quite powerful.

We are using it for bug tracking and new feature development. We have its latest version.

Using Kanban boards has allowed us to become a flow-based organization versus a sprint-based organization.

Kanban boards are most valuable. 

The reporting capabilities, specifically customized reports, should be improved. The out-of-box reports don't meet our needs. We are big into customizing our reports, and being able to do ad hoc reporting would be good.

I have been using Jira for about three and a half years.

It has been very stable.

I believe it has been scaling. I don't really work with that group, and I am not sure. We've got at least a thousand people on it, and to my knowledge, it has been fine at least for our needs. It is being used extensively in our company. We don't have any plans to increase its usage. 

I have not had any interface with their technical support.

I have used Microsoft Team Foundation Server in the past. I switched to Jira because of the job change. Microsoft Team Foundation Server had a number of features that I don't see in Jira. It had good visual charting. 

I wasn't a part of that group.

There are some good and valuable tool plugins that make it a much better tool. I've got plugins that cover most of the features that were lacking. There are some specific plugins that are targeted for specific kinds of use cases.

I would rate Jira a seven out of ten. It all comes down to reporting. It should have better and more robust reporting.

We started using it in the eComm team for the website and all the digital projects. At the beginning was Jira for software development and the Confluence to move the communication away from our mailboxes. Now, we're also using it for marketing and campaign management. Confluence is now our single source of truth and, in general, we are using it in much more content-based projects.

In many ways: transparency, governance, new comers have a place where to find everything they need, email communications are kept to a miminum, project management is much easier. Also reporting to top management is improved, as there are a lot of nice features like roadmaps and dashboards that can be used for that.

The Kanban boards have been a very valuable feature because they can be either very simple for non-technical teams, but also highly detailed and data-driven for teams that are technical. We use them for both types of team.

Jira is also widely used, so whenever we start a collaboration with an agency/vendor we don't need to spend any time in deciding how are we going to communicate.

It is very flexible as well.

The next-generation software projects are very easy to use, but they lack a lot, and I found quite a few bugs. There are some really basic things that you still cannot do. For instance, setting a due date for a task that you create as mandatory is still not available. That's a bit of a blocker because people, especially those who are not technical, are not going to add anything if it's not mandatory. It's going to be difficult to teach them that they should do it anyway.

I'm trying to integrate these tools, and I'm trying to open them to different types of teams with different types of people. What I've found is that I read about a macro (App) or about a rule and think that it is what I need, but then find that things are not available for the cloud version. There are some features that are available only in the server version and not in the cloud version. I found a couple of add-ons that we were really interested in, and we couldn't use them because we're in the cloud version.

Sometimes when I tried to set up some macros/add-ons/apps, they didn't work well or were not flexible at all. For instance, you can add only one Excerpt macro to a specific page. And in the that area you cannot have a table, which means you cannot excerpt a table, only content. In general, if you follow the instructions they give you, it works, but when you try to adapt it to your actual needs, it often doesn't work anymore.

I've been using Jira for five years.

We started very small in just one team in the company, and then slowly we've started expanding it to other teams. Now, we are trying to roll it out to all the European digital teams.

We have had some big issues with customer support. Lately we have renewed our contract, and it has taken us two months to do so. There is no way to have a phone call with anybody. The chat is not there anymore. So, the only option is email, and these kinds of things are very difficult to communicate through email.

Two of us were contacting two or three different people from their costumer service till we found the one who was willing to go the extra mile and actually listen to what our issues were.

Try to be tidy from day one because it can get messy very easily. Jira is very flexible, and you can still move and migrate stuff around. However, the reality is that nobody is going to have the time later on to migrate and clean-up. I also recommend starting small because at the beginning it can be scary, especially for non-technical people. I'm thinking about the amount of notifications you'll get, for instance.

I would definitely start small and then slowly, while people are getting used to it, keep implementing it and adding features like roadmaps or dashboards. Try to have a plan or a scheme of how you want it to look before you actually start.

It's a great product and is widely used, so I would rate it at 8 on a scale from 1 to 10.

I use Jira for project management. I track all my projects through Jira, including the resources, the time, the deadlines, or the roadmap. For me, it's the tool to check the status of the project. If we have time to get more people on the team, we can use it to show the up-skilling and the availability of the team.

They offer 24/7 support.

It's easy to set up.

There's lots of documentation to help you learn about the solution and troubleshoot issues.

The stability has been great.

A company can scale Jira if it needs to. 

It includes by default all the necessary tools for a project manager to work and make their work more efficient.

The reporting tool and the approval tool need work. The basic reporting tool includes only a few basic reports. If you need an advanced report you need to download a specific plugin, install it, and customize your reports on it. Sometimes you need to know SQL, let's say, in order to get the reports. It's not user-friendly.

With the approval tool, it's complicated in order to create the flow in Jira in order to achieve the approval process among different people. That needs to be simplified.

I've been using Jira for almost now seven years. I have used Jira from 2015 until now.

It's a very stable solution; we've had no problems at all with that. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash. It's reliable. 

The product is quite scalable. If you want to expand it, you can. 

We have hundreds of people on the solution in our company currently.

I've used customer support in the past and have found them to be helpful and responsive. 

Positive

The initial setup is not complex. From what I understand, it's an easy setup and it's straightforward. They have a lot of user manuals as well, and they have also 24/7 support across different countries if you need help at any time.

While there is a cost associated with the solution, and licensing needed, it's not an aspect I deal with directly. 

I'm not sure which version I am currently using. the admin team handles the versions and updates. 

I'd advise new users to read the user manual first, before jumping in. They are really helpful and informative. 

I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten. It is one of the best tools that I have used. It's helped me a lot in my daily job. For me, it's the best tool in order to track teams and projects. 

I am an Agile coach and consultant, and my clients use Jira to manage Agile teams, including tracking and gathering reports on performance at the team level as well as the team-of-teams level.

Since I work with different companies in my consulting work, there are different versions and implementations of Jira that I deal with. Most of the time I work with Jira on-premises, although I have worked a few times on the cloud edition.

In the near future, I most likely be using Jira Portfolio instead of the regular Jira because that will be my new responsibility.

I enjoy working with (and can recommend) Jira for a number of reasons. The best features are that it is friendly and provides good visibility. It's to the point and very effective.

When I start work with a company, one of the promises I give them is that they will get visibility, and very quickly at that. We are able to easily create boards and have the teams start work with story points. Then, we will make use of the Structure feature, which is another good feature that we get benefit from. 

In terms of the general Jira software, one element that is missing is budget management. Perhaps such functionality exists in add-ons, however. Once, several years ago, I tried to use one such add-on (the name of which I can't recall) but I dropped it because it was not effective enough. If we had this feature, I think we could provide the whole picture to top management.

I have been using Jira for about five years. 

It is stable. 

It's not scalable enough, in my opinion. To explain, I have a specific level of understanding of Jira so I am able to make specific customization to support activities at scale, but I don't feel like Jira is easily scalable out of the box. It's not always natural to scale up Jira without customization.

The technical support that I receive is not necessarily talking with any Jira support team, but rather it involves using the community's help from the internet.

On one hand, this avenue of assistance is quite good because I can often find answers there, but sometimes it's not enough. In these cases, Jira will ask to open a ticket and to vote on it so it gets priority. But it's frustrating because we might still not get answers, or we don't find anyone able to handle our issue for months or for years.

Overall, and for most problems, I think I have enough documentation so I can figure out what to do and how to do it. When compared with other tools, I think that Jira's documentation is clear.

I don't deal with licensing in my current consultant position.

For application lifecycle management, I can definitely recommend Jira and I would rate it an eight out of ten.