We performed a comparison between Jira, Rally Software, and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Atlassian, Microsoft, Nutanix and others in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites."Internally we use Jira for our own implementations and capturing requirements and our customers are using the whole tool for the whole software development life cycle. They're using it for the full life cycle of the product."
"It's easy to use, and it also offers excellent notifications."
"We can create multiple boards for the same product backlogs."
"Reporting: It gives a nice report of my backlog and what my team has currently spent its efforts on."
"Has a good dashboard with good tracking features."
"It has an easy UI that can easily plug-in to every level."
"Being able to automatize the deployment of the solution has been great."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"Tech support is very responsive, helpful, and available."
"I was able to create epics for our budgeting concerns and it helped me link everything together."
"We can work better and at a higher quality, than we were able to before."
"We use the roadmap features, and we're getting better at using dates to use the roadmap so that we can see if we're on target for work."
"The most valuable features are in-line editing, easy custom view setup, intuitive and helpful visuals (e.g., contextual formatting) and the collaboration features."
"The transparency it allows us to provide, both from the team level all the way through the executive level within the company and the work that we are doing."
"The Defect feature. In one view you can see all your defects and you can push them into the different releases."
"CA Agile Central helps the entire organization run like one powerful team."
"The most valuable feature is simplicity."
"The traceability is valuable. While managing the workflows, it was always nice to have that traceability from requirements and all the way through design. It integrates with Microsoft Test Manager, and you can have everything that is related to a requirement attached to it."
"The interface is good with TFS."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"Version Control: TFS offers both the centralized “TFVC” version control technology as well as the distributed “Git” version control technology."
"The most valuable features are related to source code management. Using TFS for source code management and being able to branch and have multiple developers work on the same projects is valuable. We can also branch and merge code back together."
"I have found almost all of the features valuable because it integrates well with your Microsoft products. If a client is using the entire Microsoft platform, then TFS would be definitely preferable. It integrates with the digital studio development environment as well."
"It is easy to push our changes from quality to pre-prod and prod."
"There needs to be easier integration with third-parties — personally, this is the biggest issue for me."
"Its ability to perform true executive-level status reporting could be improved. There are a lot of benefits there, but there are also a lot of things they can and should expand upon."
"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."
"Reporting is something Jira could work on. The reporting capabilities should have the same flexibility we see in Excel, including the ability to manipulate data and create graphs. They need to have that, so we don't need to export to a spreadsheet."
"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."
"The tool should improve its pricing."
"The documentation on how to create dashboards and take advantage of other features in the tool are areas where the tool has certain shortcomings."
"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."
"The Reporting feature can improve, especially around executive summaries and dependency mapping."
"It could improve by being self-organizing: user stories, different hierarchies, and different perspectives. Not just as a single hierarchical structure, but something that can be multidimensional."
"Rally Software is highly complex, and it takes some effort to get everything tied together. But once you do, it's a satisfying experience, and the result looks beautiful. Azure, ServiceNow, and Jira do not have all the features that Rally Software provides in one place, making it an exceptional tool for project management."
"It requires better scalability for the implementation of the whole suite. We do not use it in that fashion, and visibility is sometimes a problem."
"Customization features may not be exposed or unavailable, so people may be looking for them. So, customization is an area people have told me is more desirable."
"A lot of the features that we would be looking to add, I am learning may not be within Agile Central, but part of another CA tool set."
"There's a lot of support for Scrum and Agile, but it needs something for the Kanban side."
"We did submit an enhancement request. I think a lot of teams that do very large scale products have the same issue. They just do not realize it would help them."
"As an end-user, I expect the solution's performance to be faster while staying as stable as possible."
"The interface can be improved and made more user-friendly."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
"Its pricing could be improved."
"They should have design patterns in TFS for the development team, and design patterns for the QA."
"The price could be cheaper."
"The overall reports in TFS could improve. Additionally, there should be an easier way to migrate from an older version to a newer one."
"The solution is stable but could improve."
