Jira

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

The ability to assign and track the task, deliverables. The extended community forum is also one of the key features which is making it unique from other products

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Creating Stories, EPIC are the best aspect of the product. It gives a detailed description of what is happening and who is handling it and what is the current status.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Setting up this tool can be complex It focuses only on certain part of the IT industry

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Implementation of the tool to be simplified Simplify the tool , so it can be used by multiple teams

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

Once the long implementation is over we consider Jira one of the best tools in the market and has helped expedite our process, make better projections and provide better estimations on tasks. Unlike other tools in the market, Jira can in fact help management and team members pull in the same direction in a fast organized way,

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Their UI/UX experience for the web version of the product really makes a difference from other products in the market.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Initial implementation takes too much time and workflow setup and automation get a bit tricky at first. Also, their mobile app still has a lot of room for improvement on small things such as providing enough ticket information, if you have added custom sidebars to your web-app ticket layouts they won't all show up when you check on your mobile app.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you are looking for a tool to manage a medium to large business Jira is the tool for you. However, if you are looking for a tool to manage a small team <10 team members I don't think the initial implementation is worth it.

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

We work with Jira software for the complete organization of tasks through the section called project, for that we use is issues that helps us to divide each of the sections as outline types to break down in a structured way, we ensure the process of our development is fluctuating through an agile framework and helps to have a clear view of the project time.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We use it to track projects end to end, from writing the initial idea to the point of the outline, it is good for keeping all our goals and tasks to visualize and understand the expectations of when to deliver a project.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It has a learning curve to work on that is not quickly intuitive for a new user. You must have a good learning curve to use the software in a way that is efficient and better performing, with JIRA you can get to the point of frustration in terms of the ability to write and format the content in each epic or individual story.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This type of software is excellent for companies that primarily have engineering departments, this includes software engineers, Ops, IT and DBAs. We use Jira as the main development process tool for tracking project progress and team performance, well defined and user friendly tool.