We performed a comparison between Jira Align and JIRA Portfolio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I found Confluence most valuable."
"The tool helps us to stick with the timeline and budget of our projects. It also helps me to identify dependencies and red flags and intervene wherever possible. I have found the key metrics tab also useful."
"The tool helps us with better tracking across various departments. Jira Align is highly valuable for organizations due to its flexibility. With my experience as an administrator, I can attest that it can be tailored to meet the diverse needs of any organization. It helps to eliminate the mess created by Excel spreadsheets."
"Jira Align has been quite a helpful tool for us because, without it, we would be juggling with all our story points or our backlog items, which would be difficult to manage."
"Jira Align's most valuable features are the roadmap, the program board, and the reports."
"It's easy to set up."
"Being able to do PI planning using the program levels is most valuable. I find that the program-level reporting is most useful."
"Jira Align helps us manage communication and tasks for a variety of teams without overlap."
"Jira's Structure, agile, and Kanban boards are helpful. I also like JQuery, which allows you to fetch the relevant set of data. We use JQuery, JQL, and the Structure board a lot. Kanban boards help us monitor daily tasks, and we review the progress using the burndown charts."
"Managing product development and managing inter-team communications are also valuable features."
"In general, the valuable features of the tool are its capabilities concerning dependency reports and task status."
"The solution has good reporting and is very user-friendly."
"The best features of JIRA are its flexibility and configurability, allowing us to tailor it to our specific needs."
"The solution is very powerful and the underlying structure of it is well done. The company behind the solution is very open as far as their whole ecosystem is concerned. They also do a lot of work in the training area."
"In a PC environment, it is quite stable."
"The solution includes good and fast notifications for other project team members."
"The tool's corporate pricing is expensive."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"Jira Align should reduce the many information fields we need to provide while closing defects."
"For future releases of Jira Align, I would suggest making workflows simpler and more user-friendly."
"I would like to see Jira Align merge and integrate better with Jira as a whole. A lot of the time, the data from Jira won't map very well into Jira Align."
"The workflows are scalable from portfolio to individual level but can sometimes be complex to navigate."
"Deployment was very complex."
"One area for improvement is that Jira Align's double menu and multiple menus can be difficult for new users."
"There is room for improvement in terms of scalability."
"The HR aspect of the solution could be improved."
"The kanban board could also use some more filters. We just had a project where the deployment for Jira didn't have any ETA, and it's a requirement for the client. We accommodate a lot of issues on the board, so the workaround was to create boards by project, not client."
"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."
"An improvement would be if Portfolio were integrated with Office 365."
"This solution is not able to be integrated with other solutions because you have to upgrade it and pay for more licensing."
"The automation in JIRA Portfolio could improve, it takes some time. We have to do some other tactics to have the same integration. Manually integrating something will take more work than if it was automated, but the automation scripting in the solution is not simple."
"We are based in India; I would like the product to integrate local pricing. We earn in rupees but spend in dollars. Its pricing could also be lowered."
Jira Align is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 36 reviews while JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 49 reviews. Jira Align is rated 8.0, while JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Jira Align writes "Creates visibility, has lots of reports, and removes silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". Jira Align is most compared with OpenText ValueEdge, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview AgilePlace, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Rally Software, whereas JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server, Adobe Workfront, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Broadcom Clarity . See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Jira Align report.
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