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 solution is stable and reliable."
"We can cope with processes easily without adapting the tool, but adapting the tool to processes."
"Has a good dashboard with good tracking features."
"The burndown chart is also helpful when it comes to reporting and allows us to know where we are going, especially during development."
"I have found Jira to be scalable."
"Great for tracking my development team's productivity."
"The solution helps a lot with scrums."
"The most valuable feature is that it has different APIs available, with good services, and it is completely by the books."
"The user interface is simple and it helps me in planning what needs to be accomplished."
"The pricing is pretty good on the enterprise agreement we have."
"Technical support has been very helpful."
"The reporting features are quite strong. Being able to do team reports and find out what work is pending, what work needs to be done are key in my day-to-day management of the team. The earned value analysis capabilities and critical path capabilities inside the tool help me make sure that I'm keeping the projects on track."
"Microsoft Project is used to track the project delivery and the project management."
"The integration between SharePoint and Power BI has been great."
"I have found that the chart reporting feature is very helpful for us currently."
"Being able to get a milestone schedule or a breakdown out of it is valuable. It can integrate into Visio, which is helpful."
"There is a difficulty viewing all the attachments because they are shown in one place. I would like attachments to be shown at the comment level."
"The user interface and views on different devices should be improved."
"There's a really steep learning curve for configuration."
"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."
"One thing that I don't like about Jira is that when you do an export, it only allows a thousand issues. So the export feature needs to be better."
"There are some minor quirks, such as zero-point stories not appearing in the portfolio scope."
"There could be an improvement in loading files and images for more than 50 MB. It would be good if it allowed more than 100 MB."
"The user interface is very detailed right now. It could be simplified if they consider targeting the user experience."
"The solution could be more flexible when it comes to integration."
"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's interface seems to be an outdated one. So, I would like its interface to be improved."
"The full suite would be pretty expensive."
"The new version has made it a bit more complicated."
"This solution needs more templates focused on types of projects to ease setup."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"Could be more user-friendly, and forecasting could be better."
Jira is ranked 5th 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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