We performed a comparison between Jira and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Jira has a useful user interface and overall is easy to understand and learn."
"The most valuable feature is project management."
"The features on offer are great. It has everything we need."
"It helps me to use virtual Scrum boards across four locations, three time zones, and to plan my work. It fully supports the Scrum approach, and the Agile way of working, and it has Agile thinking behind it.."
"The agile framework works well, and I pretty much live by that. Everything, such as sprint management, is laid out."
"Jira has been a good l tool for collaborating across large groups of people. The JQL feature is powerful and easy to use."
"Our company follows the Agile methodology for software development, and this product is one of the best tools for companies that do so."
"We use it for capacity planning. We need to gauge and assess whatever is coming to our pipeline and then everything comes to the pipeline, appears as a pic, and then based on that, we create the story points and we take it from there."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is that it keeps the code secure while working collaboratively in a team of four or five individuals."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"The solution's iteration board is good because you can track all your work with it."
"From the project management perspective, the tool is efficiently managing teams by giving management information, such as reports, graphs, velocity, capacity, etc."
"For what I need TFS for, I have never run into any limitation."
"It is easy to push our changes from quality to pre-prod and prod."
"Complete integration with VS IDE and Office tools: This give us a possibility of high-level automation, thus minimizing human error."
"There is a difference between their cloud and their server versions. The next-gen project, which is an advanced feature that allows you to visualize the road map of your delivery over multiple products and over time, is not available yet for the sever version. It appears there in the list, but it's still not right. I've tried to use it many times and I am watching the device show their tracker, but it seems they intentionally want this to increase the utilization of the cloud instead of the server. It is really a nice feature and it's a shame that we don't have it."
"It would be good if we can grant access based on the roles. This is something that Jira can look into. Currently, anyone with Jira access can access everything. Being able to define access based on the roles will give us more flexibility in managing Jira. I would like to have more reports in Jira. Currently, eight or nine reports are there. You can use Screen Test to get more reports or data from Jira, but you will have to get more add-ons, plug-ins, and stuff like that. It would be good if they can increase the number of reports."
"Once the solution is deployed, it's not easy to configure."
"Whenever you edit a story, whatever you have changed takes a bit of time to save."
"There's been the odd amount of JIRA downtime (not self hosted) and sometimes tickets that can't be accessed."
"The performance could be improved in the future."
"The GUI should have much better features like more graphical illustrations. There are some cases or benchmarks that we are trying to capture into a dashboard GUI's graphical summary, but unfortunately JIRA is not able to do that."
"I have noticed a problem with Jira in the Philippines. In the Philippines, there are only a few companies that offer local support, which is alarming."
"TFS should allow more integration with different platforms."
"The project management side should be addressed and the project and release planning should be somewhat extended."
"The tool needs improvement in stability."
"Sometimes we feel that it need more CPU, and RAMs on TFS server, either we implemented the hardware with the product minimum requirements."
"TFS needs to be stable."
"TFS on-premise does not support integration with SharePoint Online."
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
"As an end-user, I expect the solution's performance to be faster while staying as stable as possible."
Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Jira is rated 8.2, while TFS 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 TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and TestRail. See our Jira vs. TFS report.
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