We performed a comparison between Jira and JIRA Portfolio 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."This is our way of communicating with different teams. We are a global company. I am based in San Diego, for example. A lot of the BAs are based in Paris. The development team is based in Minsk. We absolutely need to be in constant communication and on the same page."
"It allows you to do a lot of stuff, and the functionality is pretty rich. It integrates well with other products, like GitLab, that we are currently intensely using at the company."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"The timeline management is great."
"Perfect for keeping track of large amounts of bugs, tasks queries and releases for fixes."
"There are a lot of different plugins for Jira. Unfortunately, we did not test so many and the big pain point for us is the rigorous handling and the roadmap of Jira. We have a portfolio and structure plugin and we have our story map plugin in Jira"
"I like that Jira allows you to customize the flow for an agile process and adapt it to your own flow."
"It's a very complete product overall."
"The valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the customization it provides which is very useful and the Agile project management capability."
"Version management is the most valuable feature of JIRA Portfolio."
"The solution is very powerful and the underlying structure of it is well done. The company behind the solution is very open as far as their whole ecosystem is concerned. They also do a lot of work in the training area."
"The most valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the ease of use, many developers are familiar with it."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard where we can see all of our projects and apply filters to shortlist those projects."
"The documentation is very well done."
"The solution is very stable."
"The best features of JIRA are its flexibility and configurability, allowing us to tailor it to our specific needs."
"Jira has recently updated their UI, but more can be done to make it even better."
"So at one point in time, they did a huge UI upgrade. At that time, I felt like they had changed something, so it was hard to figure out. Now that we are habituated, it's not an issue now."
"The reports in Jira can be improved, especially for test reports. I find it difficult to customize and integrate for different testing purposes."
"There are some minor quirks, such as zero-point stories not appearing in the portfolio scope."
"It would be ideal if the solution could be available as a mobile application."
"I would prefer it if the solution was more intuitive."
"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."
"End-to-end management from product backlog to test completion could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of scalability."
"With Jira, an issue that arises is the length of time it takes to show certain data."
"When I want to embed Jira Portfolio in a complete HLI cycle, I'm missing things to evaluate my ethic into my value stream."
"We are using the on-premise deployment, but it is slower and not as easy to manage as the cloud version."
"It would be really nice if the solution provided a heads-up every time they enhance something or add new features."
"The workflow needs improvement."
"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 team-centric view is slightly weaker in JIRA compared to its competitors, especially considering how I can evaluate how each resource has been placed, not just in one project but across JIRA."
Jira is ranked 5th in Project Management Software with 254 reviews while JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 46 reviews. Jira is rated 8.0, while JIRA Portfolio 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 JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM, whereas JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server, Adobe Workfront and Microsoft Azure DevOps. See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Jira report.
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