We performed a comparison between Jira and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's easy to understand, and easy to navigate."
"We use Jira for project management and tracking."
"We have found the structure, functionality, and how Jira handles the tickets most valuable."
"Jira's collaborative features, such as comments, notifications, and real-time updates, facilitate better communication."
"When combining Jira with Bitbucket, you have the possibility to ensure continuous integration and other functions which is highly appreciated by our software development team."
"The most valuable features of this solution are workflow and reporting."
"We can cope with processes easily without adapting the tool, but adapting the tool to processes."
"I like seeing which tickets are open and what our response rate is. They have a lot of good metrics in their system to see what's going on."
"TFS is very user-friendly."
"What I like the most is that you can set permissions on just one folder."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is integration."
"The most valuable feature is simplicity."
"From the project management perspective, the tool is efficiently managing teams by giving management information, such as reports, graphs, velocity, capacity, etc."
"It is a stable solution."
"Some of the valuable features are version control and the ability to create different collections in terms of segregating the authorization for teams who connect to small projects."
"Build definitions and releases within the product. allow us to put our latest applications in the field."
"I manage the progress of the stories in an Excel chart with dates on work progress or thing to do. I don't like the progress or the stage changing from the stories in Jira."
"In JIRA, it's a bit complex in terms of what advanced search queries we use. Sharing them is also a problem. Because TFS is on the cloud, we can easily save that query and share it with our team members."
"Jira's collaboration and integration with other apps and tools could be improved."
"I have had problems with performance and unresponsiveness. All of a sudden, the performance slowed down, and I had a number of users that could not use the tool."
"Atlassian has multiple tools and it becomes difficult for a customer to process everything differently. Atlassian should combine them and form a single solution for DevOps by including the Jira Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, and others. This would be much easier for customers by purchasing a package, rather than purchasing bits and pieces. With Azure DevOps and other companies, it becomes easier to go with one company having multiple areas that they can cater to, but in Atlassian, the problem is that you have to select different solutions to have a full package. For example, to have document management customers have to purchase Confluence and for Git repository management they have to purchase Bitbucket, et cetera. There is always another add-on that you need to attach to have a complete solution in Jira."
"Lacks field-level permission in the cloud version."
"Not very intuitive for project admins."
"Jira could improve by making the user interface easier to use and the functionality could be better. While we are managing multiple sprints and other elements of the projects, it's very difficult to manage the labels and other aspects."
"The tool needs improvement in stability."
"Overall, I think it would be useful to have something similar where Microsoft comes up with supporting concepts of scaling Agile in TFS so that clients don't have to look for a separate tool."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
"TFS needs to be stable."
"We encounter issues with backups."
"Access and permissions are confusing when attempting to include basic manual testing functionalities."
"The price could be cheaper."
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
Jira is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 27 reviews. Jira is rated 8.0, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Jira writes "Stable with good documentation and needs very little maintenance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Polarion ALM and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and TestRail. See our Jira vs. TFS report.
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