We performed a comparison between IBM Rational DOORS and Jira based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Jira is the clear winner in this comparison. According to its users, it is very stable and user friendly. Based on reviews, it is more reasonably priced and has better support than Rational DOORS. In addition, Jira has a proven ROI.
"Starting to use the solution is pretty straightforward. There isn't too much of a learning curve."
"Compared to other tools that I have used over the past 20 years, DOORS is the best of the best."
"What I like about DOORS is baselines, it's easy and I use the capability of multiple users. The traceability or links between different levels are very nice. Additionally, it is used by all of our suppliers, which brings us commonality."
"The solution is stable."
"It is a stable solution."
"IBM Rational DOORS keeps everything organized."
"It has the features of: traceability, configuration management, and user access."
"This product can help improve how your organization proceeds through solution development."
"We use Jira for project management and tracking."
"The most valuable feature is the Burndown Chart to see work that is outstanding."
"The way it interfaces with Bitbucket and other things like that is valuable. Reporting and being able to link various issues or stories together are also valuable. We call them stories, and they're general reports."
"We can integrate a lot of tools with the solution."
"The solution offers a lot of plugins."
"When we run the Jenkins pipeline, the build is already automatically connected to Jira. We've been able to integrate the ecosystem we created using this automation tool."
"What I really like about Jira is that it ticks off all the boxes for any agile project. It's easy to set up, easy to use, and it has excellent notification features. Jira is the top choice for anyone working on agile projects like ours."
"We do not have a lot of time for investigating new things, but Jira has saved us a great deal of time. It has a nice user interface and we can do a lot of things with it."
"I think there is probably room to improve by offering free training."
"They need to provide users with information on what options would be best for their setup."
"The user interface for the Change Proposal System could be improved."
"The images are not clear. We have to use them as OLE objects. And in the testing part, I'm not sure how to link it with it. This is my main concern."
"It used to be very clunky."
"It's difficult to set the code on the solution."
"There are problems with communicating between DOORS and Microsoft Office."
"It would have been ok ten years ago, but we are used to having better tools now."
"Jira could improve the workflow, screen, and field configurability. They are lagging behind other solutions, such as Allegra in work system configurability."
"They could improve the solution by having a multiple project dashboard to be able to manage many projects KPI's at once, this would really be helpful."
"Something I would like to see improved is the traceability feature. When you have a user story, if you can see all the test cases, it would be an improvement if you could see any design documents or any change management."
"Jira can improve by making user management better. It is not easy to have visibility of who has the right to do what. Only the administrator has this visibility but there should be the option for other users too."
"In terms of the general Jira software, one element that is missing is budget management. Perhaps such functionality exists in add-ons, however."
"Users can be confused about how to use this tool as it's very complex."
"As the solution is highly configurable, it has very poor governance."
"I think that there is some ease of use that could be brought in to improve certain things."
IBM Rational DOORS is ranked 1st in Application Requirements Management with 51 reviews while Jira is ranked 2nd in Application Requirements Management with 266 reviews. IBM Rational DOORS is rated 8.0, while Jira is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Rational DOORS writes " Offers ability to automate tasks and to track changes within documents and compare different versions of requirements but modeling capabilities could benefit from a web-based tool ". On the other hand, 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". IBM Rational DOORS is most compared with Polarion Requirements, Jama Connect, Helix ALM, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation and PTC Integrity Requirements Connector, whereas Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software, Polarion ALM and TFS. See our IBM Rational DOORS vs. Jira report.
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