Jira

Project Management for Everyone

Comments: I have used it from issue tracking , agile management and now with Jira work management you can do waterfall management also.

Pros:

With its simplicity JIRA can be used by all kind of users Engineers, IT, HR, Finance. I have seen its growth from bug traking to kanban to scrum and now business projects. No other tool has this simplicity and versatility.

Cons:

limitation of scheduling, roadmap and timesheet.

Alternatives Considered: Oracle Primavera Cloud

Reasons for Choosing Jira: Primavera is not user friendly with poor UI UX

Switched From: Primavera EXPRESS

Reasons for Switching to Jira: JIRA flexibility is good. UI UX is great. Scalability on cloud. Easy deployment

Quite expensive but Useful!

Comments: It was awesome and everyone of my team loved using it

Pros:

Jira is the ONE project management tool you'll ever need

Cons:

May get expensive when your team size is quite big

Alternatives Considered: Trello

Reasons for Choosing Jira: Nifty was missing a whole lot of modern features

Switched From: Nifty

Probably Best for Bigger Companies

Pros:

The software worked well for workflow. However, for a small organization like the one I was exploring this software for, it offers way more than we need...for better or worse.

Cons:

For software management, Jira seems to be the primary workflow and project management tool, so there's little incentive for them to improve their offerings because there is little competition.

There are many programs to manage projects and teams, but they are not Jira

Comments: As I already mentioned in the example of use in the Pros section, from the simplest project (a shopping list), to the most complex, the integration of several work teams from different areas and several very diverse projects, You need software that makes work, communication and organization easier.Jira offers us that, simplifying the management, planning and management of issues, without Jira, order becomes chaos.

Pros:

I will give an example of how I used it on one occasion and the advantages of having had this software.I was hired by a digital marketing company to improve proprietary applications, internal APIs, creation and migration of landing pages made in WP for our clients, migration of PHP applications to Python, server management, diversity of containers... The DevOps who was doing all that work left the company.An external audit was hired that provided workers spread all over the world, Spain, India, Latam...So we find ourselves with a lot of work, from very different areas, work environments and projects of all kinds and just one person to manage everything.With Jira we all worked under the same environment to organize tasks, but above all incidents and bugs, and with the need to manage the priorities of each new element that entered our work boards.At a glance, I could assign tasks, review code, refactor or modify it, and upload it to the test servers. Review the tickets, with screenshots of the errors or the new results that should be obtained. Keep in touch with everyone from one place and also receive all feedback in Jira.It was months of hard work, without Jira it would have been impossible to manage it.

Cons:

Despite having Jira with everything necessary for software development, sometimes it becomes more complex and less visual than if we accompany it with some extras, also from Atlassian. So it is easier for some boards or planning to use Trello, GitHub or Bitbucket for continuous integration, Sourcetree to make the different branches and versions more visual, Composer for team collaboration...

Alternatives Considered: Trello

Reasons for Choosing Jira: It is expensive to maintain and you never get the ease of use and tools of software of this quality.

Reasons for Switching to Jira: It is more complete for incident management, priorities integrates better with other solutions

Jira has been an essential tool in managing projects, client issues/bugs, and enhancement tasks

Comments: My main reason for choosing Jira was that I wanted a solution where I could grant my clients access to be able to add tasks or bugs and Jira has worked perfectly for that purpose. I have a few clients where I do a weekly status meeting and Jira is our main focus in the call. We review all issues with the 'In Review' status and if approved, we move them to the 'Done' status. We then look at outstanding items and adjust priorities as needed. My team then has their marching orders for the week.

Pros:

The ability to assign priority ratings and then assign a task to a resource is great. I can then run reports to see all open, in progress, and done tasks by project, priority, or resource.

Cons:

There is a bit of a learning curve. Jira is an extremely powerful tool and sometimes a bit overwhelming. In fact, I would guess that my team is only using a portion of the features available to us.