Jira

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

I am absolutely convinced that the main advantage in using Jira is its belonging to Atlassian infrastructure. All my experience with it was really nice, several teams (marketing, SEO, developers and designers) collaborated with each other with slightly different preferences, but great synergic impact, and Confluence + Trello helped a lot in addition to Jira

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Jira is really customizable due to needs of different teams who works with sprints or without them. Differentiation of access rights, customizable task options, support for flexible methodologies – Jira seems to be really a standart for agile. Decentralized teams should gain additional benefits: is saves language barriers blocking time and frequent emailing.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Jira may be complicated for new users, if compared to some more simply solutions at the same market. Also, the user interface can be inconsistent (especially with the different definition pages). Mobile application has enough bugs (and not really mobile friendly)

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Use educational courses, like "Jira and Confluence 101" to solve all the questions you'll face in the very beginning of your work with Jira If we speak about implementing Jira, scrum master is a good choice of driving all the processes

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

In general, Jira adapts to different needs. Although it's highly effective in software industries, I've seen that it can help companies from different markets regarding their projects. It provides a great task management and tracking. This allow you to also identify the pain points of your projects with ease. Reporting is also quite good for any company to see the evolution of the different in progress projects and adapt the way these evolve during time by adjusting the workflows based on users/projects/company requirements.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

How customizable it is. Due to the large marketplace it has, missing features can be easily be incorporated through plugins/apps, enhancing the capabilities of the application.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There are some features that can be improved. Permission Schemes, for example, could be improved by giving a better handling over the permissions (bulk change is a missing feature that could be quite useful) IN general, there aren't many things I dislike about Jira and the tool is always evolving. Unfortunately, some issues/bugs/features, take quite some time to be fixed or implemented.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Try Jira Cloud first as you can get a free trial version and even a free cloud instance for up to 10 users. If you like it, you can either consider stay on Cloud version or move to DC.

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

The main difference is that the tool is configurable with high quality. Allows you to plan the entire project, is able to customize the workflow and customize it for approval. Other important points are knowledge management and traceability of actions already carried out in the project.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

JIRA allows work groups to have a complete view and understanding of tasks, deadlines and responsibilities. In remote work environments, it is possible to monitor the actions taken. I find this software very useful and customizable. It has many functions that facilitate and optimize work and allow you to organize, plan and meet goals. Facilitates teamwork. It seeks to be simple and effective; Allows you to track activities that must be completed and notifications of changes to any action.

What do you dislike most about this product?

JIRA has a high learning curve. Need to optimize usability and better document how to use some features. The initial settings have a lot of functionality that could be a little more optimized or allow for more automatic choices.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Overall, it's very nice to be able to follow the entire workflow, it has many configuration possibilities. It is very good for planning the project. It has many features but needs to evolve in usability. An important feature is the GitHub integration. Documentation also needs improvement. Prices are good, especially when compared to other tools on the market with the same features.