Jira Reviews

I use this solution for general issue management, software planning, and change management.

This solution is a one-stop-shop for issues and plans.

Issue linking has enabled teams to trace issues.

I like the dashboards and Kanban boards.

The development links to GitHub are critical.

The only thing that JIRA doesn't for us is release management in a way that I can create a list of versions easily.

The primary use is task management. It has performed okay. It is easy to configure and maintain. It's quite simple to track tasks, then link with other applications/solutions from Atlassian, like source codes.

• Visibility
• Avoids emails and exchanging information in an informal way. 

I would rather have a tool that we do everything on. Also, we have access to end user policies where we can configure them and give access to the correct person. We have tracking of who works on what and why over the history of a project.

Workflows, because we cannot employ a different approach depending on the speed of the project or customer. Whether it's research, engineering, or maintaining the process, we can cope with processes easily without adapting the tool, but adapting the tool to processes.

There are no fields to search or to filter by, mainly the ones which use a data around a date and time when something changes. So, you have to use some add-ons and create a lot effort to obtain information from the tool. Thus, you have to adapt to the lack of search that the tool does not offer.

So far, so good.

I don't see any problem with it.

In the past, I had training from the distributors and it was okay. 

The tool is very easy to use. What is important is that we don't have to wait so much for contracts or more hours to have support. This is something that we have, and it is good for this solution.

Everywhere that I worked, we started by using spreadsheets, then we moved to some free tool, and finally to JIRA.

As far as I know, the initial setup was very simple and straightforward.

Understand your own process: What you are looking for, the size of your company, what your budget is, and the larger plans for the future. There are tools that scale better than others and there are solutions that fit to both small and big teams. There are tools which scale better for larger companies. 

Most important criteria when evaluating a vendor: 

• We evaluate the company's strategy.
• If they bought an legacy solution to add to the portfolio or if they are developing from scratch.
• What are their plans for the future?
• What type of support do they have?
• What is their business model? 
• Do they have domestic experience or not?
• Are they focusing only on a few customers, and the size of those customers?
  

We are using it for software development tracking, bug tracking, feature tracking, and so on. 

We are using the cloud version from Atlassian, and we have its latest version.

The way we can define and customize the search queries for the tickets in Jira is most valuable.

The way to configure it can definitely be improved. It is very difficult and complex to configure. Its configuration should be simplified.

I don't have any requirements for new features. It is a standard system, and we use just a part of the functionality.

I have been using this solution for five to ten years. I use it on a daily basis.

Its stability is good. In the last five years, I haven't seen any outages. 

We are a very small team, and we don't have any requirements for scalability.

I have not contacted their technical support.

The initial setup and the out-of-box features and functions are very straightforward. I would rate it a five out of five in terms of ease. You can just create an account and start to use it. 

It is a cloud solution offered by Atlassian. There is no on-premises setup, and it doesn't require any maintenance from our side.

It is subscription-based, and we probably pay yearly. I would rate it a four out of five in terms of price.

I would rate Jira an eight out of ten.

The design of the interface is clean and not too busy visually.

I'm really new to Jira and I haven't used all of the features. However, it is quite difficult to use and manipulate. It was a little complicated for me and I don't know if it's difficult globally for others, but I had a difficult time understanding it at first. I used it for issues,  epics, stories, tasks, and sub-tasks. For first-time users, Jira could be made better to help them understand.

When you want to create something in Jira, whether it's a story or an epic on a task, you have to create a thing called an issue, and inside the issue, you have to put what type of issue it is. Either it's an epic or a story. The fact that it's called an "issue" was a little confusing for me because I didn't know where to search when I wanted to look for tasks and stories. I didn't know that I needed to search for issues and not only tasks or topics.  

I have been using Jira for approximately one month.

Jira has been a stable solution.

I have found Jira to be scalable.

We have 20 people in my company using Jira.

The setup of Jira was simple.

I did not compare Jira to other solutions.

I have not had a lot of time to explore the solution. My rating might be higher if I had used it more.

I rate Jira a three out of five.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I'm just a user. I don't know.

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.

The solution is primarily used in a scrum setting for creating all the features, topics, epics, stories, backlogs, and helps manage the scrum.

It's a very powerful product. It works well with Confluence. It interacts with it well.

There are very advanced features in Jira compared to, for example, ServiceNow.

You can record your unit testing, regression testing, UATs, et cetera. With a wider universe of applications, it's very flexible. 

I'm not totally a business analyst, however, a business analyst, can really, really use it very deeply due to the fact that you can register the results and create your test cases, run them, and document the results. All the testing is very advanced in Jira and it's very nice.

While it's very powerful, it's very complex sometimes. You can do many fancy things and have connections between features. With so many options, it's easy to get lost and it's not as easy to be on top of all the features and changes. In that sense, ServiceNow is easier to keep up with. Its configuration is more complex than ServiceNow.

The interdependencies between objects sometimes are not easy to trace back and to have a clear view of. That's why starting with small configurations is very important; we don't create very complex structures between objects in Jira. That said, sometimes when updating a history that was linked to an epic we would not understand why the epic didn't change when we changed the history. The relation sometimes can become complex. This is not a problem of Jira per se, it's a problem of how you configure Jira.

I worked with the solution for a while, however, I stopped using it. My last project was about 12 months ago.

The solution is stable. I cannot recall any issue with bugs or glitches. Jira never went down. It was reliable.

It is a scalable product. It can be applied with much more deepness, especially for developers.

Normally if I had some questions and issues on how to do what on Jira, I'd look for local support. We didn't have any Jira consultants or anything like that.

We also use ServiceNow. We use both products in the same way.

The configuration process is pretty complex. It's a pretty advanced product. You'll want to understand how to use it and what you want it to do before jumping in.

I would advise potential new users to start with simple cases in terms of configuration and to build on top of that in order to add complexity by identifying the need and not working from scratch.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. You need to get used to using it. It's a solution that can et very complex. 

We are using it to organize most of our software development processes. 

Being a cloud solution, we usually have the latest version, but sometimes, we get a pop-up saying that there are some changes in a menu or some new features are there.

It covers most of the development process, and almost everyone uses it. We are using it for every role involved in the project, such as business owners, product owners, testers, developers, and DevOps. For example, the product owner defines a new feature, and then we take the feature and create stories and development, testing, or DevOps tasks. We then implement the new feature or changes to an existing feature. All the test cases and other things are in Jira. So, everything is done in Jira.

It is a very convenient tool. We can organize our sprints through scrum or kanban. There are scrum boards, and there are kanban boards. If you prefer scrum, you can use Jira. If you prefer kanban, you can still use Jira. You can create your kanban boards in a similar way as you create your scrum boards. It is very useful. It also seems to be very popular these days.

Its search and reporting can be improved. They are already nice, but they can be further improved.

I have been using this solution for more than 10 years.

Its availability is great.

We have different offices, and overall, there might be about 2,000 people. There are no issues with its performance or service. Almost all roles in our company are using this solution.

Other people have experience with Jira's technical support, and they are quite happy with their support. Personally, I never had a case where I needed any kind of support.

It is a cloud solution. It just requires licensing. Of course, some support would be required for all users of Jira, which could be in thousands. It might not be an easy task, but overall, I don't think a lot of time is spent on its maintenance and support. It is a very trustworthy service.

It is certainly a long-term solution for our company and for previous companies that I have worked for. They have these long-term term licenses, but I'm not sure if they really pay on a yearly basis. They are certainly using it for a really long period and for a lot of users.

I would definitely recommend this solution. It is very popular, and a lot of my colleagues have used it before. It doesn't require a lot of learning time. It is very good to use. I'm quite happy with the service. Of course, it can improve, but personally, I'm very happy with it.

I would definitely give it a good rating. I would rate it a nine out of 10.

We primarily use the solution for project management. 

What I like about this product is how you can manage from the project to the deployment, even using Bamboo or using Bitbucket. 

Being able to automatize the deployment of the solution has been great. 

We're not only managing documentation on the project task, but we're also handling the technical assets that are under the project. 

What I don't like is that perhaps there are not so many different apps that can add value over the management side of the product. They're not able to develop over Jira, even for normal technical activity signing. For managing the project better or for task documentation or even managing tickets or service needs in another way, there needs to be better customization or better apps.

I'm really obsessed with the idea of reducing the number of activities to have a general retail workplace. However, if we need to expand the use of the Atlassian suite to all the teams, all the people, we need something that can be, easier to use and has the ability to offer more guidance to those users that usually don't work with these type of tools. For example, ServiceNow doesn't fit all the needs in the company, however, it can be configured. You can develop so many different functions over it. I don't want to increase the payments and the number of licenses that I have to buy from ServiceNow. I would prefer to have my own developed team and try to define everything on our side - including the functionalities that I would like to build for those proposed functionalities.

I've used the solution in a structured way for about 18 months now. 

We have looked at and worked with several content-managed solutions in the last year. We're trying to build our retail workplace using ServiceNow, and, at the same time, increasing the use of the Atlassian suite. ServiceNow, we use for post activities such as service ticketing, service managing, and so on. 

The introduction of agile has moved us onto the Atlassian suite, which has been really very, very useful. At the same time, we have a partial solution that has been built over Salesforce, using the Salesforce development environment. 

Fortunately, we have so many different solutions for file management. We have FileNet, we have OneDrive. We have SAP. In terms of file management, we have so many different solutions, even Dropbox.

We are using the Jira service center and we are using Trello and Confluence as well.

The deployment is pretty straightforward. It's not overly difficult. We are able to automatize a lot of it. 

We're an Atlassian partner. 

In terms of project management, Trello is not enough of a solution to manage complex projects and maybe some new functions can be developed. I'm not saying that Jira has to develop that, or that Atlassian has to develop that. Perhaps there is something that we can do to create a referring community to develop those new use cases and more simple use cases, and, at the same time, use them for more general purposes in the company. Atlassian fits in the technical side, in the IT side really well. It just needs to move to become friendly in a retail workspace environment, outside of its traditionally technical background.

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

I would recommend the solution to other users and organizations.