We performed a comparison between Jira and Microsoft Azure Devops based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Overall, users of both products seem to be satisfied with the solutions. Microsoft Azure Devops has slightly higher ratings because it is easy to deploy.
"The most valuable feature of Jira for sprint planning is the timeline feature, which allows for better visualization and planning of releases."
"In Jira, the integrations I have used so far are the repository integration, like when it gets added, or the integration with Confluence, which is good."
"Jira has a useful user interface and overall is easy to understand and learn."
"The timeline management is great."
"It helps me to use virtual Scrum boards across four locations, three time zones, and to plan my work. It fully supports the Scrum approach, and the Agile way of working, and it has Agile thinking behind it.."
"You no longer need to email people. You can mention them right in Jira and have conversations there."
"It has an easy UI that can easily plug-in to every level."
"The most valuable features are the customized Dashboard, Sprint Planning, and Automatic Notifications."
"Monitoring is most valuable."
"The extensibility of the work item forms and customizations as well as the backend API to query the data, et cetera, and manipulate the data programmatically are all very valuable aspects of the product."
"The work items option is incredibly flexible."
"Azure DevOps is complete and meets all of your expectations. You can develop your own plugins to customize it however you want, so it's highly flexible. We develop personalized plugins or use ones that other programmers create for the Azure Marketplace."
"The simplicity is very good and the customer experience is also great."
"The product is easy to use...It is a stable solution."
"I think the most usable thing is that you can follow the whole progress of the development process. This makes it very useful for us."
"It is stable, and we have had no issues with it."
"Jira could improve by making the user interface easier to use and the functionality could be better. While we are managing multiple sprints and other elements of the projects, it's very difficult to manage the labels and other aspects."
"Ease of administration and customization. It is really clunky in this area."
"I'd like some more features around software testing. I'd like to see some more stuff done around data testing. That's what I'm most interested in."
"We'd like to see more collaboration tools implemented within the product itself."
"It would be ideal if the solution could be available as a mobile application."
"The reporting needs to be better."
"There is always a bit of a performance problem. It's a bit slow to load the whole data."
"I would like to see more robust release management within the tool."
"The optimization feature in Microsoft Azure DevOps needs improvement. Control over multiple projects could also be improved."
"Reporting could be better. We would like to see how many applications are onboarded in DevOps and in which phase they are. We would like to know for how many applications we have done only the repository, but we have not yet done the build pipeline or deploy pipeline. Currently, there is no such report. We have to figure it out ourselves. There is no way to check how many applications are completing their build pipelines, how many applications are completing their deploy pipeline, how many are ready to use, and how many pipelines are working."
"We would like some bidirectional synchronization. It's the requirement if you want to analyze it to software requirements, et cetera. That's something that most of the tools aren't that good at."
"I would like to see improvement in the metrics and the dependencies."
"Project management could be improved."
"Its interface could be more user-friendly. It could be simplified for users with no prior knowledge. There should also be better tutorials."
"Its setup is quite complex."
"They could provide clearer guidance on deployment practices for the product."
Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews while Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 127 reviews. Jira is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2. 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 Azure DevOps writes "Allows us to deploy code to production without releasing certain features immediately and agile project management capabilities offer resource-leveling". Jira is most compared with IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software, Polarion ALM and TFS, whereas Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, TFS, Rally Software, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our Jira vs. Microsoft Azure DevOps report.
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