Jira Reviews

I use Jira for sprint planning and tracking projects. I can create boards on it. And then I just have backlogs, and I just basically plan and sprint for the next two weeks, and you just put anything on the to-do list, doing, and done through the board. So it's very simple. It’s all drag and drop. There’s nothing too complex around it. 

The main thing is making sure whatever you're planning for your sprint is covered there, and then you can run reports after that.  Sometimes, the key issue I've seen with project failures is when the sprint planning isn't comprehensive enough.  It’s not being covered. But generally, it's very similar to Microsoft Project, in some ways because you can still create those Kanban boards and run things, but nothing too crazy.

Our client engagements are usually for a specific period. From an analytics perspective, long-term tracking is probably better handled on the client's end, not ours, as we're not there long enough to gather meaningful data.

I am aware of the bug-tracking function in Jira. We mention the bug on the ticket itself, whatever ticket we're working on, but we don't track the bug separately. Only because once the ticket closes, the bug sort of closes with it. For ongoing bugs, that's a different place to store the information, not on Jira. That's just my opinion. 

Anything that's open should be stored in Jira; otherwise, it will get lost. So, I don't feel that's the right place to keep ongoing bugs.

It is easy to integrate Jira within our current IT environment. Jira has connectors and supports various integrations, but again, we don't overcomplicate our setup. We keep our Jira usage simple. I've generally seen it integrate well, so I don't think it should be an issue.

We just use it for very basic purposes. 

I like its ease of use. It doesn't require too much training. Even if I gave it to someone who hasn't gotten Jira experience, I feel like it's simple enough for them to figure it out. 

It's not that complex, which is quite nice. And the fact that you can run reports quite easily. You know, the actual visual side is quite nice. You can tag people to it. I think all of that makes it a simple tool that's easy to interact and collaborate with.

Sometimes the screens can be a bit too busy. There's often a lot of information on the screen. I think paring things down and applying some UX improvements might enhance the look and feel of the interface. But generally, it's fine for my use cases.  

Perhaps some AI integration, like a co-pilot feature, could be a massive improvement. This is similar to how Microsoft introduced AI tools. That would be helpful, as I don't believe Jira has a great product in that space at the moment.

I have been using it for a few years now. It has been maybe seven years. 

It's been very stable. I haven't seen any bugs or experienced any downtime.

Overall, I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. 

From my experience, it scales quite well. I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. 

So, it's easy to scale with no issues or complexities. From a functionality perspective, anyone can use it. Obviously, the cost would change depending on the size of the company. If it's too expensive, then it might not be suitable for a smaller company.  

I've never had to raise anything. Jira is fairly straightforward, and we're not using it for overly complex tasks. So, personally, I've never needed Atlassian's tech support.

I have also used Microsoft Project. 

Microsoft Project feels more like Excel, while Jira is quite distinct. Jira is probably slightly better because it doesn't require any downloads. But, for me – both are good options.

The initial setup for Jira is pretty simple. I don't think it's hard.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. In most cases, when I'm working with clients that don't already have a project management tool, I usually suggest trying Jira.

In our organization, we use Jira for project management and usually use the Scrum project type. We might adjust the workflows and stages to better suit our needs, but we mostly use the default functionalities it offers to manage our projects.

It's flexible and customizable, and we frequently use it with customized workflows and dashboards to track defects. Jira works well with tools like TestRail and Clarity, which help with test management. It has various APIs.

Jira's reporting and analytics features support project management by providing useful out-of-the-box reports. These include burn-down charts for Agile project management and various other reports. These default reports typically cover around 60 percent of users' needs. Users can customize their reports and dashboards for the remaining needs, which usually fulfill about 80-85 percent of requirements. Add-ons can be used for the remaining small gap.

The tool mainly supports remote or distributed team collaboration through its cloud version, accessible from anywhere. Within Jira, you can communicate effectively with team members by assigning issues, leaving comments, and referencing people for notifications. While direct communication features within the tool are decent but not outstanding, integration with tools like Slack or Teams can enhance collaboration further.

Jira could be easier to use, especially for administrative tasks. It's quite complex, so it's important to understand it well. While the reporting and dashboards are good, there's room for improvement in some areas where extra features would be helpful.

Sometimes, we need add-ons in the product, especially for reporting. While you can get these through add-ons, they can be pricey. The licensing system for add-ons might also seem unfair because you often have to pay for all users, even if only a few use the add-on. So, maybe the licensing model could be adjusted.

I have been working with the product for ten years. 

I rate the tool's stability a nine out of ten. 

We've never had any issues, even with up to 2000 users. However, scalability can be limited by the license type. I'd rate Jira's scalability as a ten out of ten.

The tool's support is helpful. 

Positive

For deployment, setting up the tool takes minutes. Implementing additional configurations like SSO or integrations might take half a day to a day. The time spent configuring and customizing screens and workflows depends on your specific needs. I usually take about three or four days to complete everything.

The licensing cost for Jira is typically around seven dollars per user, though it may vary depending on regional variations. This cost is for a subscription-based model rather than a one-time purchase. I rate its pricing a seven out of ten. 

I work across multiple projects, so people might approach me for support when needed. I would recommend Jira to other organizations. For inexperienced users, I would advise seeking help from experts if there's something you can't do in the tool. They can customize it to fit your needs. Overall, I'd rate the product an eight out of ten.

We use Jira primarily for project management within the organization. It helps us manage tasks, bug management, and tracking tickets effectively. We assign tickets to individual team members and track them easily.

For project management, Jira has helped facilitate efficient task segregation and allocation to employees. It allows us to track projects comprehensively and improves the overall management from a project perspective.

Jira is a comprehensive tool for managing projects. It helps in task segregation and assignment, making it time-efficient for employees. From a project management perspective, it allows easy tracking and management of tasks. Furthermore, Jira is user-friendly with a seamless deployment process.

We haven't seen Jira's progressive area so far, and we are not sure what it might do in the future. Due to Jira's access controls and role-based functionalities, we have some limitations, limiting our full exploration of its capabilities.

We have not encountered any issues with Jira so far. It has proven to be a stable tool for our needs.

Jira is available at the enterprise level, and while it is a user-based aggregation, we are unable to access all its features due to role-based access controls.

We operate under a nonlimited license with Jira, allowing a number of users to access it with a single enterprise license.

ESQ and Prognosis, which is sold by IR Transact, were discussed as tools used for monitoring. However, these are unrelated to our use of Jira.

If anyone needs a project management tool, I would definitely recommend Jira based on my experience. However, the specific functionalities you can use might depend on the role-based access and permissions within the organization.

We use the solution for secure software development. Additionally, we use the service-based system.

If our software factory delivers, individuals will need to provide instructions on how to use the software factory.

The integration is nice. We can integrate with TeamViewer and many more solutions. We need to go into Jira to complete the secure software delivery.

The solution could be cheaper.

I have been using Jira for ten years. We are using the cloud version of the solution.

The product is very stable.

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

The solution’s scalability is good.

100 users are using this solution.

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

Jira is providing all information.

Positive

Migrating from an old server agent is quite complicated.

We have a very small organisation. Two IT people are needed for the solution’s deployment.

I rate the initial setup a six out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.

The product is quite expensive. It costs approximately 1.2 million rand per year.

It's a fixed price, depending on the modules that you get. You have specific tools, that's what you pay for.

I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

I would advise people to use Jira. There are other open-source products available that individuals can consider first, depending on the company's budget. Jira is a fairly stable product, but there are other open-source solutions worth exploring.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

My company doesn't use Jira for service desk management. My organization uses Jira in areas like user stories, ticket tracking for work, dashboards, and kanban boards.

The product has improved my organization since it provides a common point of reference for tracking work from different groups, including developers, QAs, and project management areas.

The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of replication of tickets.

The documentation on how to create dashboards and take advantage of other features in the tool are areas where the tool has certain shortcomings. The tool needs to have documentation on how to take advantage of different features in general.

In the future, I would like the tool to provide better integration with other tools. My company uses BMC Remedy. Integration of Jira with BMC Remedy, which is our company's ITSM tool or support tool, would be helpful. Better integration with other tools is required. I work in a large organization, where switching tools is not a rapid process owing to which getting data from one tool to another can be a cumbersome process.

I have been using Jira for four to five years. I don't remember the version of the solution. It is a tool that is configured at multiple places, so you can use it in one place, and it looks totally different in the next place, even though it may be based on the same version. I use the tool's current version.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. It has scaled up well to meet the needs of a large number of users in different roles in our company. There are some complexities that make it a difficult tool to use. Better integration features would help with the tool's scalability.

Around 1,000 people use the tool in my company.

I received technical support from my company's internal tech team.

I have experience with some other products.

I did not take care of the product's initial setup phase, but I know it is a complex process.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

The solution is used for project management and agile software development. It is also used for general business planning. We can use it for any small or large project. The tool is designed to do sprints and Kanban. It was built for Agile. It works well for any Agile-style project.

There are various versions of Jira. Help desk process, using ITIL, planning a new product from scratch, marketing, task management, and team management can be done in Jira. We use automatic print preview settings and visualization of the progress. We can link all of our information in Jira into Confluence to do live meetings with live data. We have a lot of templates in Confluence for any business or team meeting we need.

The reporting and analytics features make it easy to calculate team velocity. We can track time and effort. It's very easy to generate burn-down and burn-up charts for Agile teams. It also has many useful automatic charts for help desk services. I haven’t used it much, though. We can integrate a lot of tools with the solution.

A lot of companies use a mix of Waterfall and Agile methodologies. They often need more individual metrics for time and cost tracking. Many larger companies would like to have more resource management within Jira. The model for adding features is by application. If we add an application to Jira, we must pay for the licenses for everybody on our contract when only a few people need to use the application. Adding applications is very expensive. We cannot make it for only the few users that need it. We must buy the application for the entire workforce that's using Jira, so it's not very flexible.

I have been using the solution for three or four years.

Overall, the product is stable, but it has had some security problems and a major outage in the last couple of years. It's something to be aware of, but I don't worry about it that much.

The product’s scalability is pretty amazing. I've seen customers with over 10,000 users, and it works well. I don't have a lot of scaling needs. However, it's super easy to onboard new people. And I've never had to worry about running into performance problems. We just add the people, and it works.

If we are starting a project with a small team from scratch, we can have Jira up and running in about ten minutes. The deployment process is logging on, adding the users, and hitting the start button. It's very easy. The tool is deployed on the cloud. I recommend the cloud. It is usually better and the easiest.

The ROI is excellent for the cost of the basic product. It has so many features and integrates with so many things. There are a lot of useful free apps available. We can really improve our project management and task management at a low price compared to buying a bunch of other products. It's very flexible. We can adapt it to different kinds of projects. We can adapt it to the way the teams need to do the work instead of having to learn the rules of the software itself.

I use a monthly subscription. We can opt for an annual subscription if we go through a reseller.

I tried Asana and Trello. I chose Jira because it integrates with many other applications and easily expands with its own apps. The integration within the Jira, Confluence, and Atlassian products is automatic. We don't have to spend time linking information and data. We just need to install it, and it will be ready to go.

I haven't used a lot of direct integration with Jira. I've seen it used with code repositories for continuous integration and continuous deployment. It's really fast. Everything is automated and very easy to set up. I haven't used all of the features. I would definitely recommend Jira. My advice is to use the online resources on the Jira home page. There are a lot of people who will help you set it up for free. We can avoid making a lot of mistakes by using the community advice. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I use Jira to schedule tasks, customize them, and track progress within sprints. We follow a two-week sprint structure and manage all our tasks within Jira accordingly. We use it in the defense industry, and our applications are related to satellite communication. 

I have experience with Jira's bulk tracking and issue management. We use it to add new features to our product, fix bugs, and address customer feedback.

The features I find most valuable for work and team productivity are creating subtasks and tracking their completion. Additionally, reporting features such as burnout charts and task reporting are quite valuable for us. 

The tool's integration capabilities with other tools are quite nice. It's an open tool that easily integrates with third-party products like Microsoft Project and GitHub. Integrations work smoothly; we've also integrated it with requirement management tools per our needs.

Improvements in Jira for the next release could include adding AI tools for dashboarding, making it easier to report insights, and enhancing business intelligence capabilities. It should also improve on-prem support. 
As far as I know, Jira's on-premise support is being discontinued. From last year onward, they stopped providing on-premise licenses and now only offer cloud support. This shift happened gradually, and I believe they now only offer cloud licenses.

I have been working with the product for ten years, since 2014. 

My company has 200 users, of which nine to 10 are from my team. 

The documentation and the internet are enough to clear our doubts. 

Positive

The tool's deployment is easy; I rate it a nine out of ten. It can be completed in two to three days. 

The tool's pricing is expensive. The new pricing is indeed quite expensive compared to what it was a few years ago. Last year, when we intended to renew our subscription, we found the pricing considerably higher.

The decision to use Jira on-premise instead of the cloud is primarily driven by security concerns, especially in industries like defense, where sensitive information must be protected.

We want to continue using the tool, but we may have to explore other options due to the lack of on-premise support and Atlassian's emphasis on cloud deployment. If it extends its support for on-premise usage in closed network environments, we would gladly continue using it, considering our current investment and experience with the platform. However, if no such support is provided, we may need to evaluate alternative solutions that can be deployed on-premise.

I recommend using Jira because it's easy to work with and open, allowing for integration and development of additional features if needed. Its ecosystem is vast, with a large community worldwide using Jira, and it offers many add-on products for various needs.

I rate the overall product an eight out of ten. 

We use Jira for ticketing purposes, project management, and writing stories, epics, and milestones.

The solution's maintainability, user-friendliness, and learning curve are all very good. We can use the solution's queries to filter everything and get the data out for business processes. Jira queries can be used for different types of deployment automation processes.

The solution should be more user-friendly and include integration with different tools.

I rate the solution a seven to eight out of ten for stability.

The solution’s scalability needs improvement. Around 5,000 users are using Jira in our organization.

The solution’s technical support is quite good.

We previously used ServiceNow. We switched to Jira because it is more user-friendly and an easy-to-use tool for project tracking, project management, and integration. Compared to ServiceNow, Jira is easy to maintain.

The initial setup of the solution is quite complex and should be simplified.

We have seen a 90% return on investment with Jira.

We use Jira for sprint planning and agile project management. We used to maintain a two- or three-week sprint. We found and tracked different user stories, epics, and milestones in that sprint. We used to complete the two-week sprint with all the user stories, epics, and milestones in that particular sprint. We also put the blockers we use in the backlogs so that they could be handled in the next sprint.

Jira's bug tracking and issue resolution works quite well. Users should explore more features and understand and learn more about the solution.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.