We performed a comparison between Jira and Microsoft Project Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Portfolio Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Overall, it is very intuitive. It is so lightweight and easy to use. It is easy to manage our product backlog and user stories, and it produces great reports."
"Everything is tracked in one place."
"It is a complete solution. It has more features as compared to other tools, especially the open-source one that we use. It is also easy to administer."
"The adaptability of the Scrum and Kanban boards for other uses, with careful use of the customization features."
"The most valuable feature is Jira Align, which is a plugin that helps you to understand the progress that is made against each epic."
"Jira has been a good l tool for collaborating across large groups of people. The JQL feature is powerful and easy to use."
"Jira queries can be used for different types of deployment automation processes."
"It was very easy to learn Jira. As a scrum master, I run daily stand-ups, and they are run directly from Jira. The feature that I really love in Jira is called Issue Navigator. It allows me to customize how I want to show the user stories within Jira to my squad."
"Microsoft Project Server helps organizations in collaboration."
"Technical support is very responsive - particularly on critical tickets."
"Technical support is good."
"The solution scales well."
"It is well-established, reliable, and compatible."
"The key things are managing interactions, resource allocation, resource-leveling (enterprise) and as a collaborative tool, because we use it across multiple projects at a time."
"The solution is stable."
"Microsoft Project Server is easy to use compared to other similar solutions, such as Primavera. It functions similar to Excel or others Microsoft solutions which makes it simple for most people to be able to use right away."
"I'd like the solution to be more secure."
"Jira can improve by making user management better. It is not easy to have visibility of who has the right to do what. Only the administrator has this visibility but there should be the option for other users too."
"The integration could be better in Jira."
"I would like to see it connecting to Git. That could be useful. We use it for Stash, but I think there is one for Git also. I don't know if it's a plug-in that exists already, but that could be nice."
"I'm mostly focusing on the requirements traceability with my thesis, the integration could improve for other tools. The companies are not only using Jira. For example, for the test cases or for the documents templates, we are using Polarion and we have been having some integration issues."
"The reporting needs to be better."
"It should have Behavior Driven Development (BDD). There should be an option to add macros to help with that. A lot of people are using it now, and it would be nice if there was a way in there to be able to generate the BDD of commands whenever you're creating a story."
"It is not user-friendly."
"The check-in, check-out feature makes Microsoft Project Server pretty slow or cumbersome to use."
"The cost could be lower."
"There need to be more tutorials available to users."
"The solution should be made more collaborative."
"We think that calculations are not working correctly, and there is a need to enter data a couple of times in order to give the correct calculations."
"It may be considered expensive."
"The solution's synchronization with Jira Projects should be improved."
"The solution could have more compact dashboards, such as one finds with Planview."
Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews while Microsoft Project Server is ranked 5th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews. Jira is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Project Server writes "Provides holistic reporting and allows us to keep track of what's going on with projects". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM, whereas Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and SAP Portfolio and Project Management. See our Jira vs. Microsoft Project Server report.
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