We performed a comparison between Jira and Microsoft Project based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The scalability is good."
"It's a Scrum tool, so it's very easy to use."
"JIRA stores history of changes, which helps a lot to track who, when, and why the issue was modified."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of replication of tickets."
"The informatics is the most valuable feature. It captures what we need."
"The solution works well and does what it needs to do."
"The configurable workflows and boards make it easy for us to execute and oversee our own unique process."
"The traceability mapping feature is something that became very useful, especially during releases and bug fixes."
"Microsoft Project is user-friendly and easy to use to do very complex project plans."
"Being able to get a milestone schedule or a breakdown out of it is valuable. It can integrate into Visio, which is helpful."
"The user interface is simple and it helps me in planning what needs to be accomplished."
"It's most useful feature is that it interfaces with Project Server so we can, from my perspective, from a portfolio perspective, we can see across the organization."
"The solution is very useful for project planning."
"A lot of valuable features have been added in the last three years, including scheduling automation and intelligence."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is very complete. It makes it a great option for project managers and they can use it extensively in almost any organizational setup."
"In terms of improvement, I think Jira (Jira Agile, specifically) can be made more user-friendly. Most of the time, when people are somewhat used to the process, they find it easy to work with. But the thing is, if I want to create a sprint, I'd like the ability for it to come out like a kind of board or something like that. For example, they could offer something like a wizard for users who want to quickly create a sprint on the spot with a few clicks. I think that could be useful."
"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."
"One major issue that I, and even our business stakeholders, have noticed is related to Epic Link. When Epic Link's background color is a dark color, it effectively becomes unreadable. I wish there was a way for us to change the text color of Epic Link in the Issue Navigator view."
"There are some minor quirks, such as zero-point stories not appearing in the portfolio scope."
"I would prefer it if the solution was more intuitive."
"The plugin management needs a lot of work."
"I would like to see test execution modules."
"The stability could be improved."
"Its user interface could be a little bit more intuitive. Not everybody has the luxury of going to training and understanding which button does what and the functionality. The user interface should be improved to make it a little bit more intuitive. It is not user-friendly. I've dealt with it for a number of years, so it is not hard for me to figure it out, but you would need a quick reference guide or something to say, "Here are the basics. This is how you do X.""
"I'd like the solution to be less expensive."
"It would be better if Microsoft Project were included in the DevOps stack. That is, I'd like to see this tool integrated to a different stack of the applications that we normally use in DevOps, such as in Jira, for example, to deploy a different version related to the different tasks that are included in Microsoft Project."
"The solution could offer waterfall options for agile and sprint planning."
"We'd like to be able to see different timelines as a part of one task."
"It needs to be more comprehensive."
"The full suite would be pretty expensive."
"It should be easier to break things. Breaking up the visualization from the task is sometimes a little bit tricky to do. You can do it, but it takes a minute. It's not an easy function to do. The way you have to format it and stuff like that takes a minute."
Jira is ranked 4th in Project Management Software with 266 reviews while Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews. Jira is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Project is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Planview AgilePlace, whereas Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet, Broadcom Clarity and monday.com. See our Jira vs. Microsoft Project report.
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