Jira

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

Hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide use Jira to develop software and track issues. The scalable solution offers users a robust set of enterprise-grade features and security for every stage of business growth. Its Atlassian Marketplace gives developers additional options to create add-ons to extend any feature of the software. Jira Cloud is a complete SaaS solution that gives users the benefit of immediate access to the latest Atlassian features with automatic updates. And because Jira is cloud-based, it's often a cost-effective solution that frees users from the responsibility of worrying about servers, storage or maintenance.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Jira is ideal for software teams with its feature set and integration capabilities needed for agile and effective software development. Jira users can leverage other products such as Jira Service Desk, now known as Service Management for incident, problem and change management. A team with simpler needs can try Jira Core, which is a simplified project management tool that can help a team introduce Jira capabilities to the organization.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The browser must be refreshed manually to see new tickets, which can confuse things when multiple people in a meeting are creating tickets frequently. The interface in some smaller parts of the software is sometimes difficult to understand.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This is an ideal tool for teams using iterative approaches. A team can optimize Jira's issue tracking functionality using custom screens, custom fields and workflows to handle both manual and automated testing; it is applicable to a variety of project types. Its project templates can help a small team get a project started quickly. Users can quickly customize a template to fit a unique team workflow.

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

The implementation takes time but with ease all the engineers will get used to the tool which will help in productivity and efficiency of the team in a project.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The application is available in all the platforms so we can track project anywhere in any device.

What do you dislike most about this product?

JIRA application needs training with all the Administration, support and all the team who would be using the product.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Fabulous product for Project Management.

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

The almost infinite possibilities over the inside integrations (over flow and/or charts) and outside apps. Its beatiful and conscize comunication betwen related cards/proccess. Besides that, it gives you a full view of all projects being made, completed or even on parking lot.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The visual possibilities that turn the system in more than a simple chart/dev controller, but also a channel to comute all changes in a manner you can get the best analytics for both IT/Dev and final user.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Its hard/complex learning curve for first time user - even if youre already familiarized with other products, even the Atlassian Trello.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you think of Jira as the premium version of Trello, youre not tottally wrong, but while Trello is great for activities management, the Jira its very more direct to multidisciplinar teams whose the main objective is to develop and condunce new projects, not the simple activities per say.