JIRA Portfolio Reviews

I am using JIRA Portfolio for tracking and reporting issues. We use it for the entire sprint and will have all the information there, such as testing, and all the developers.

The solution has improved our production process. We have fewer issues and everything that happens in our process is captured in the solution.

The most valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the ease of use, many developers are familiar with it.

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.

The ability to connect to market-leading tools should be easier, such as Selenium. A smaller package installation would make it easier. One component would speed up the process. For example, if people choose Selimiam in Jira Portfolio should be one component, such as one .exe file which everything can be installed. A similar process should be done for Cypress to make the process easier.

I have been using JIRA Portfolio for approximately five years.

The solution is stable.

We have approximately 30 people using the solution. We plan to increase usage in the future.

The scalability of the JIRA Portfolio is good.

We have a team that provides us with support. However, we have used support that has helped us with a few aspects, but it has been minimal.

I have used ALM prior to Jira Portfolio. JIRA Portfolio is easier to use. When using ALM, creating tickets can be difficult.

The initial implementation of the JIRA Portfolio was simple. We use templates for the process.

We have seen an ROI using JIRA Portfolio.

The solution does not require maintenance.

My advice to others is to make the automation simple that is put into Jira Portfolio.

I rate JIRA Portfolio a nine out of ten.

I gave my rating of nine out of ten for the solution because it is easy to use and has benefits over ALM.

With JIRA Portfolio, you can do your portfolio after projects and right away you are able to see all the tickets of your portfolio. You can change the project which belongs in the portfolio at any moment and you can do any simulation you want. You can have many scenarios, and, when we agree with the scenario, we can push the scenario inside to JIRA.

The documentation is very well done.

Today, when we want to prepare PI planning, we have a dedicated plugin, which allows us to print a ticket. We have beautiful tickets which is an advantage. We can print tickets and put them right on the wall. It's better for PI planning due to the fact that you can read information, and it's always written in the same way.

On each ticket, you can see priority, version, et cetera, always written in the same way. If you write it directly, however, it's not always readable. JIRA Portfolio can help you during PI planning because you can write your dependencies directly. 

However, it would be better if you didn't have this manual part of the process. If we don't have to print a ticket and to put a ticket on the wall, it would be easier. It's very difficult, for example, for sizeable companies to find large rooms to do PI planning.

With coronavirus, we have to work from home. PI planning needs to be re-imagined. It needs to be virtual, not physical. It would be better if it was more like Klaxon, where your ticket is pushed to a blackboard.

JIRA is very poor at reporting.

I've been using the solution since the beginning of this year. It's been just over six months.

We introduced JIRA in 2018 and since then we haven't had any issues with stability. In my opinion, two years isn't a sufficient amount of time to really gauge stability, however, that said, it's never given us trouble.

We have about 2,000 people in the company using the solution.

We have reached out to technical support in the past, however, we prefer to use Google or search the forum. In fact, if you send a request to Atlassian, it's like throwing a bottle into the sea and waiting on a response. If I send a ticket directly to the expanded portal, I have a response 24 hours later, and if I send a ticket to Atlassian on JIRA Core, I'll get a response maybe one month later. It's easier, therefore, to search for a solution yourself than to expect a response from Atlassian.

In order to set up the solution properly, you need proper training first.

We have created a system inside our company. I do a sort-of training for JIRA Portfolio. I have coached about 1,000 people. I would estimate that you need two hours of training for a JIRA team member and two additional hours for a JIRA administrator, or a project administrator, and about two additional hours on top of that for JIRA Portfolio. If we set up, it takes one day. And of course, after setup, users will have to practice on the system to get used to it.

We compared five different products last year, including JIRA Portfolio, BigPicture (which is another plugin available on the Atlassian marketplace), JIRA Align, and a Micro Focus Solution. We also looked at Planview, which we already use to forecast for budgeting purposes.

We chose JIRA Portfolio for two reasons: firstly, due to the fact that it was connected directly with to JIRA, so we have a direct synchronization between BigPicture and Jira Portfolio, and secondly because you don't have to really plan anything to make it happen.

The difference between JIRA Align and JIRA Portfolio is that JIRA Align is for a large company, for example, a multinational and when you want to aggregate several JIRA instances. As we have only one Jira instance, it's more accurate for us to take on something like JIRA Portfolio.

In general, we are on a server configuration and not a cloud solution. That means, each year we have that specific version until we update it. I suppose since we have installed the JIRA Portfolio in January, it's the last version. However, I'm not sure.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten overall.

If the solution would work for others depends on the size of their company. 

If we had to do the implementation again, we should have bought JIRA Portfolio at the same time as JIRA Core. I think we did a mistake by introducing JIRA Portfolio without it. When you buy JIRA Core, you have only three levels of subtask stories and epic in JIRA, and it's difficult for us to have only three different levels. With JIRA Portfolio, you can have as many additional levels as you want. We adopted a scaled agile model with squads and tribes. We need to implement a safe model instead.

We've since introduced, as a pilot, two additional levels as we believe it's better to have all level you need at the beginning of your project.

Our organization uses the solution in scrum meetings and cycles for the internal teams. JIRA Portfolio is also used for tracking stories, and roadmap planning. In our company, I am also working on JIRA administration to configure the entire cycle of the stories and Epics by adding customized fields and workflows.

I have used JIRA Portfolio to adjust and add flexibility to the workflows according to the team's input in our organization regarding their working process. 

The backlog view feature is highly valuable and helps manage stories. JIRA Portfolio assists in prioritizing which stories the team in our organization should work in sprint and which ones can be postponed. The sizing of each story and planning the ideal size for each sprint is also carried out using JIRA Portfolio. 

The reports generated using JIRA Portfolio are not intuitive enough. The product should also provide report customization capabilities. For instance, if I need to create a chart on the dashboard , I can only generate the chart in tabular format using the filters and widgets offered by JIRA.

Thus, the solution should allow chart generation in the form of a histogram or other chart formats. The product presently lacks visualization capabilities for reporting. In future releases of JIRA Portfolio, the workflow, including the templates and forms, needs to be further simplified; the vendor has already made simplifying efforts in past releases. There should be a portfolio or workflows for startups adopting JIRA Portfolio. 

I have been using JIRA Portfolio for eight years. 

I don't recall any instances where I have faced difficulty in accessing the solution. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. 

I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. 

Previously, in our company, Asana was being used, but as it's a project management tool that operates through resource utilization, it wasn't suitable for our use cases, and thus, we shifted to JIRA Portfolio. 

I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. Before adopting JIRA Portfolio, when I was comparing multiple products, including pricing and other differences, I found the setup process was not as simple as I expected, and it was time-consuming to find some specific information regarding the setup. 

The deployment process involved creating an account and inviting the rest of the organization's team and few integrations were needed. At the beginning of creating an account with JIRA Portfolio I had to create a migration project between Asana and Jira because our organization was working with Asana before using JIRA Portfolio. The deployment of JIRA Portfolio in our organization took just a day. 

In our organization there are ten users of JIRA Portfolio as we are using the free edition. But our company has plans to increase the usage in the future. 

The price is reasonable for the time being as our company is in the early phases and we need to cut costs as much as possible. Our company is presently relying on the free version of JIRA Portfolio, but the price of the complete version is also quite reasonable. 

I used Microsoft TFS a long time ago, and then I have also evaluated and worked on Asana. Our organization was using Asana six months ago and we realized that JIRA Portfolio is a better solution for managing the backlog and working on trial methodologies or scrums. 

The solution interface allows the view of name boards, lists, calendars, and timelines for the projects. The timeline view is highly beneficial for checking the stories dependencies on the timeline. Certain customizations can also be implemented in the timeline and the view can be changed between monthly, quarterly, and yearly. The timeline feature also provides a holistic view of all the stories in the backlog, including the completion time required for each story.  

JIRA Portfolio is easy to integrate with other tools. In my organization, I use JIRA Portfolio in integration with Slack, this is advantageous because it allows me to track whenever a team member adds a story or task. The aforementioned integration additionally allows me to monitor which project or tasks each member is engaged and I can make adjustments accordingly to the stories activities if needed.

For instance, when I check through a notification that a team member is working on a story that is not yet ready to work, I communicate it to the team member to refrain from working on that specific story. In our organization, JIRA Portfolio is also integrated with Outlook. 

The solution has allowed seamless communication between our company's managers and the rest of the teams, providing a holistic view of workflows and assisting in organizing the whole product cycle. Overall, I would rate JIRA Portfolio an eight out of ten. 

We use the tool to track issues and develop pipelines. We also use it for versatile projects in the IT department. It helps to track KPIs, present progress to the business with dashboards, and complete the QA team's plans.

What I like about the product is its extensive features, particularly the wide set of attributes for tracking issues. Jira Portfolio allows us to track not only the overall project but also specific components within it. This is beneficial for all stakeholders, including developers and business owners. For example, business stakeholders can track all issues, regardless of status. 

When using a scrum board, it only shows the current or open sprint. However, we also need to see past and future sprints, which is important for planning the next sprint. To solve this, we tried using a Kanban board instead, but since we follow the Scrum methodology, it's not the ideal solution.

I have been using the product for one and a half years. 

I haven't encountered any system issues myself. During my time with the company, we've had at least one upgrade of Jira Portfolio. 

My company has around 30-50 users for Jira Portfolio. We have around 100 licenses. 

The solution's support is good. 

We know about Jira Portfolio's work and capacity planning features. However, we do not use them. Instead, we use KPIs relevant to our business. I rate the overall solution as nine out of ten. 

I would recommend the product for IT project teams because of its stability and wide range of functionalities. Although we don't use the capacity plan feature, I recommend it. It's very useful for various purposes. 

We have integrated the tool with Lucidchart and Power BI. It has add-on functionality. 

We use JIRA Portfolio to implement the scaled agile methodology and conduct retrospectives. It's also used by us for writing bugs and managing our daily structure.

The workflows are the most valuable feature of the solution, whether for tasks, bugs, or chain requests from the site. I also like the solution's GUI, which is easy to navigate for everyone.

I think the solution can improve in graphs and the analysis part.

Considering what I would like to see in the solution that could simplify my life, I would like to mention Miro. Currently, we have to visit Miro specifically to carry out PI planning.

I use the cloud version of JIRA daily for the standards and traceability of defects coming from a point. I am unsure whether I am using JIRA Align or JIRA Portfolio. However, I think it is JIRA Portfolio because it has everything developed adequately for dev track, dev caller, and dev dash. Also, it has everything JIRA provides.
I think I have been using JIRA for three years. Also, I'm not sure about the version of JIRA that we are using in our organization. Since I work for a very big company in the Netherlands, the company manages all the tooling-related matters. So, only the testers and developers have access to the version information.
I am a customer of JIRA Platform.

The integration platform for the tooling now available is very easy to use, requiring no expertise in computer science engineering or any such related fields. Simply select the desired options from the provider's interface and use the tool without the need for explicit configuration. For these reasons, I rate this solution an eight out of ten.

The primary use case is project management. 

The entire features that are required for managing the product's communication between the team there are valuable. Managing product development and managing inter-team communications are also valuable features.

Maybe integration with other tools could be made easier. 

I have been using this solution for three years.

I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. There was no downtime, no issues.

It is a scalable solution that's suited to our requirements for small teams. I'm not sure about larger teams. So, it's limited to whatever users it has. So that's suited to our requirements.

I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten, as far as my experience goes with the tool, but I haven't used it on a larger scale.

I never needed any support. I'm a primary or maybe average user, so nothing extensively that I've used. So I have never needed any support.

It was absolutely easy to set up and work with Jira, so that was absolutely easy.

Jira is a SaaS solution, so there is nothing to be deployed. It's an on-cloud solution.

Currently, I use the free version for personal use.

I find it simple compared to Azure DevOps. Comparing both Azure DevOps and Jira, then Jira is simpler compared to DevOps.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. It is a good tool and easy to use. It is very easy to start using the tool. It is very easy to understand and use the tool.

I use the solution in cases when I need to report something such as escalating a scale. 

The solution includes good and fast notifications for other project team members. 

The solution's look and feel could be a bit more intuitive and user friendly. 

I have been using the solution for one year. 

The stability is rated an eight out of ten. 

The scalability is rated a seven out of ten. 

The technical support is good so is rated a nine out of ten. 

Positive

It is important to learn about the solution's functionalities and features to prepare for use. 

I rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

The solution is simple to use. We use JIRA Portfolio with Azure Logic Apps, and it is easy to integrate them.

The solution should provide a monitoring interface for the customers to have more information about the issues. We cannot receive the information by mail. We can use the tool to share reports, but it should also have a space for customers to add comments. JIRA should provide more online video resources explaining how to use the solution.

I have been using JIRA Portfolio for one year.

I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

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