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."We like team collaboration and cross-functional collaboration."
"The layout, workflow, automation, and metrics are helpful in Jira."
"Offers great multiple reporting charts."
"The most valuable feature of Jira is that it's a well-known tool that many people are familiar with."
"Jira is very user friendly, easy to install, and easy to access."
"Powerful features including a good reporting capability."
"What I find valuable about Jira is that it's an ecosystem. Sometimes, it does not provide the best in class solutions, but it's so well integrated. You will not have many problems with integration."
"It is a good defect tracking tool. It has a lot of capabilities and functionalities. There are a lot of graphs and a lot of tracking. It can be sprint-driven if you want."
"The solution is well established and runs very accurately."
"I especially like the reporting tools, which are visual tools and offer visual reports."
"It can auto-connect based on the dates, which makes it easy. It auto-assigns people, and when you're starting to type in, it auto-fills and populates for you, which is great. It provides little time savers when you're typing everything out."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"It is a complete and all-rounded enterprise product. From a portfolio management perspective and an individual project management perspective, it is a corporate-wide project management product. It can be used for resource planning, financial planning, task planning, etc."
"The solution is stable."
"If you work with Microsoft, it's very easy to work with this."
"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."
"JIRA still has their own backtracking tools. It should have a better visibility into HPE UFT. Most people use functional testing tools, like QTP. They need to improve their integration to make it seamless."
"I'm really new to Jira and I haven't used all of the features. However, it is quite difficult to use and manipulate. It was a little complicated for me and I don't know if it's difficult globally for others, but I had a difficult time understanding it at first. I used it for issues, epics, stories, tasks, and sub-tasks. For first-time users, Jira could be made better to help them understand."
"The reporting tool and the approval tool need work."
"Performance is something that can always be improved upon in a feature release. Additionally, it would be a benefit to add Markdown in Jira because sometimes it might be better to describe everything in Markdown because it is a common language structure."
"If Jira would be interested in offering a SharePoint version, it would be beneficial."
"The user interface is very detailed right now. It could be simplified if they consider targeting the user experience."
"Jira's collaboration and integration with other apps and tools could be improved."
"I think that there is some ease of use that could be brought in to improve certain things."
"It's hard to reach technical people to get the help you need."
"The full suite would be pretty expensive."
"It would be better if the solution is integrated with other communication platforms like Microsoft Teams."
"I would like Microsoft Project to better align with our business needs, with improved consultant support for setup and integration features that show all relevant aspects at the top level."
"Tech support needs improvement."
"The setup and scalability can be somewhat difficult for new users until they gain knowledge."
"When moving resources between projects, it could be a bit more clear."
"This solution needs more customization."
Jira is ranked 5th in Project Management Software with 259 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 Jama Connect, 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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