We performed a comparison between JIRA Portfolio 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 backlog view feature is highly valuable"
"The workflow and bucket features are most helpful."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Having an option to view dependencies between projects and teams is great."
"Its stability is very reliable."
"The solution includes good and fast notifications for other project team members."
"In general, the valuable features of the tool are its capabilities concerning dependency reports and task status."
"Jira's Structure, agile, and Kanban boards are helpful. I also like JQuery, which allows you to fetch the relevant set of data. We use JQuery, JQL, and the Structure board a lot. Kanban boards help us monitor daily tasks, and we review the progress using the burndown charts."
"The tool has a simple and excellent approach."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's GUI is very good...The product's scalability is good."
"Microsoft Project is used to track the project delivery and the project management."
"The standard project planning features and charts are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Project is status reporting."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Project are you can create critical paths pretty easily, and you can import from an Excel spreadsheet to your task list as you create it during your working sessions with your team."
"The most valuable feature is the Auto resource leveling tool because it shows students that often, expert resources get over-scheduled, and that dealing with the issue by just using the auto-resource leveling tool would have a large impact on the delivery date."
"Being able to get a milestone schedule or a breakdown out of it is valuable. It can integrate into Visio, which is helpful."
"I think their view needs to be more user friendly. The UI makes it difficult to find things. Secondly, the configuration is very complex. JIRA should help people find out what configuration they are using."
"I think that front-end development is a little bit buggy in some cases. Some of the features take a while to respond and some need to be more clear."
"The integration needs to be done with different tools."
"JIra is very poor at reporting."
"The reporting and dashboard capabilities have room for improvement."
"The workflow needs improvement."
"Currently lacks AWS integration."
"Jira has room for improvement in terms of managing various projects and linking requirements centrally under one project. They could include some add-ons that enable you to link all the requirements and put them into a centralized place. That central place should be restricted to a limited set of users with privileges based on user groups with those rights."
"The solution could offer waterfall options for agile and sprint planning."
"The technical support could be improved. They are okay, however, they could be much better."
"The stability of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Collaboration is an area that needs improvements."
"What could have been better is the integration with Office 365 so that if you're discussing a project on Teams or there's an email related to the project, it can be tagged to the project in Microsoft Project. That functionality is currently not there."
"I find that MS Project has limited control in comparison to other solutions in the same sphere."
"I would like to see the inclusion of multi-currency support."
"Once we commit our status, changing it is hard."
JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 55 reviews while Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews. JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Project is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project Server and Asana, whereas Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Jira, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet and Broadcom Clarity . See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Microsoft Project report.
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