JIRA

Vorteile: JIRA is currently the main platform for me at work. The entire faculty and college uses it for creating tasks, assigning tasks to others and tracking the progress of students. The IT department has tuned the JIRA in predefined certain way to meet the needs of our daily work so it shows that this software is very versatile and can be used in many different ways depending on the application. Sine everyone who is part of the team can access the pages we all can see the progress and there is a better visualisation of the project and progress. We have certain response teams created in JIRA so when there is any task created for a student and a proper response team is assigned all the team members get the email and updates which I think is pretty neat. I also like that i can add progress comments to track history and easily tag other people on it so there is transparency. The filtering on JIRA is something that was new to me and I thought it was a very nice way to unclutter that huge list of tasks on my front screen. The searches and how the different progress and roadmaps can be made separate should be used to make sure things are not getting mixed up. JIRA also has this unique feature where you can create reports and see how many tasks have I touched and dealt with in the past year or month. This helps the management team analyze the workload distribution and where are we spending most of our time which is sometimes not visible to all. Great feature during performance reviews.

Nachteile: I think JIRA can be very clunky and clumsy looking due to the format it is setup as. It could be designed to display the same information but I think in a much better simpler way. The huge icons and boxes sometimes gets too much for me. Also for someone who is new to JITA it is definitely not intuitive. There is a learning curve to JIRA. The process that I have to sometimes go through to create a request on JIRA for someone else is lot of work and there are some limitations on how the ticket can be created such as only one person can be assigned. The customization is JIRA is definitely not what anyone can do and always requires help from IT.

Kommentare: Overall, experience with JIRA is just awesome.
Simple tool to maintain the team's effort and Project's status on a single page, Project boards.
Would blindly recommend JIRA for simple and complex Agile projects.
Happy Project Tracking :)

Vorteile: I have been working on an Agile Project and I would say this is the best tool for the below reasons,
* Better visualization of the project roadmap for the team.
*Customizable options, Kanban and Scrum boards that can be modified as per the project and fields to be displayed, columns on board for the flow of tickets, etc..
* Easy task allocation and tracking, from both Manger's and team members view.
* Allows the user to create/edit respective items, for example making file and screenshot attachments just a click away.
* Integration with other apps used by the project is simple. Namely apps like TestRail & Confluence.
* Best part is the backlog, which helps to create/track ticket then and there when required and work on it in future.
* Viewing logs is easy as every action is tracked.
* Easy filtering options and report generation for project statuses.
* Filter out tickets release-wise, helpful for regression.

Nachteile: For the simplicity of the application, I could hardly think of any major negative points.
I faced this situation so just sharing it. If the team member is released from a project he/she has no option to request via.JIRA to dissociate from the Project Board/unsubscribe from getting emails related to the ex-project. Inbox gets loaded with all the comments and action performed by the ex-team members.