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Rating: 8 out of 10
Score
8 out of 10

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Pros

Sufficient Communication and Accountability Features: Users have appreciated the tool's sufficient communication and accountability features, which have prevented replication of tasks and decisions. This has eliminated the need to constantly bother the project lead for updates and allowed for easy tracking of completed tasks and discussions.

Versatile Task Management Options: Many users have found the task management options in the tool to be versatile and suitable for a variety of use cases. This feature helps in keeping everyone accountable and ensuring that tasks are completed on time.

Usefulness of BigPicture - Gantt Feature: The BigPicture - Gantt feature has been highly praised by users as it allows them to break down large projects, track multiple phases, and identify where most of their time is spent.

Reviews

86 Reviews

Top notch ticket centric ITSM...

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Jira Service Management in office as the single source of truth for enterprise service desk related functions. Jira Service Management covers incident, problem and service request management. Jira Service Management is customised in terms of Technical vertical units where Managed services, Shared Services and IT Admin team have heavily customised profiles and dashboards for their presepctive individual purposes and KPI's for their specific funtional unit objectives. We have a focussed Team performing backend customizations starting from Basic setup, complex automations to bespoke functionality. We have performed in-house customizations in designing the portal, build workflows, create forms, automated workflows and rest api's.

Pros

  • Seamless devops integration - As Jira Service Management is an integrated platform it offers easy integration with jira software and when a customer reports a bug via service desk agents are able to link it back directly to the respective developers backlog items which can be pulled into sprint backlogs in return
  • Customizations - Jira Service Management has incredible customization capabilities which can be used to build aautomated workflows, custom service requests types and detailed sla's which can be tailored to specific business needs
  • Portal based end user experience - The end user portal is an easy to use interface which can be heavily customised and it serves as a self-service portal which is also a one-stop-shop for end users which is a great convinience

Cons

  • Compleixity and steep learning curve - while Jira Service Management is powerful its a bit difficult for the average tech guy to setup correctly during a short time period, backend is a bit overhelming with similar looking features which leads to confusion
  • Pricing and licensing model - Jira Service Management is quite expensive compared to its competitors in the market, especially considering that its charging model aims the number of service desk agents and the licensing for end-users is free. Further many advanced features required higher-tier plans
  • Performance clutter - The interfaces can sometimes feel cluttered and heavy, when the instance is heavily customised with complex automation and plugins the users may fell slow loads times.

Likelihood to Recommend

A mid sized technology company which needs to support 500+ employees and where the engineering team already uses Jira software for coding and bug tracking the devops bridge where employee reports a bug in the portal and support agent can directly link it to the developers backlog will definately support the operations further with the Jira ITIL readiness and inbuilt asset management features will greatly support. However considering an organization such as a retail company handling thousands of user complaints daily will have issues as the Jira Service Management interface is aligned towards a ticket based apprach rather than a user centric approach.

Jira Service Management is a no-brainer for those already in the Atlassian Ecosystem.

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use JSM as our internal service desk and help center for our internal team. It's been useful to help manage the provision of accounts and assets across our company. We've also used it to maintain compliance with security standards. Lastly, we use the tool for internal product questions and bugs (How do I do X).

Pros

  • Create and manage workflows for service requests.
  • Has a UX/AI that is easy to use to understand.
  • Can get started without talking to sales.

Cons

  • Requires familiarity with other Atlassian tools to use correctly.
  • Hard to use if you aren't deeply embedded in Atlassian's ecosystem.
  • The employee portal lacks customization options.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you're already deeply entrenched in the Atlassian ecosystem, using a tool like JSM makes a lot of sense, as there's a sense of familiarity between the tools. The workflows are also really powerful and are 'set it and forget it'. It's not great for customer-facing support, however, and smaller companies might want an 'all-in-one'.

Vetted Review
Jira Service Management
4 years of experience

Excellent solution for enterprise teams

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were addressing the issue of managing our incoming projects and tickets in an organized way, in support of the IT and business organizations. We were looking for a tool to track project deliverables step by step as they come in, blockers, estimates and level of effort, change management and the milestones of complex projects.

Pros

  • Ticket management, including the management of incoming tickets coming from different teams within the organization
  • Workload balance, to track the level of work involved with work for each technical resource
  • Team collaboration, to allow for providing feedback and comments between cross team collaborators

Cons

  • Customer service, including the ability to have a dedicated resource at off hours to troubleshoot incoming issues
  • User community, including resources and feedback to assist with new users

Likelihood to Recommend

The tool is well suited for enterprise customers with cross functional teams with the need to track projects effectively with a dedicated service, as well as track internal workloads across team members. It is a great solution for teams that have an intake process for incoming technology needs, ttrack milestones and resources for specific projects. It is less appropriate for smaller teams that do not have internal resources for IT related functions.

Vetted Review
Jira Service Management
8 years of experience

JSM is the go to help desk platform.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use JSM as the internal ticketing system. It's the only ticketing system we use in our organization. It's used for tasks such as requesting IT services or submitting employee requests to HR. JSM has been suitable for our needs, as it's part of the Atlassian suite, which allows us to keep documentation in Confluence and manage projects within Jira.

Pros

  • Customizability
  • Adaptability
  • Automations

Cons

  • Ease of sharing forms externally (for those not in the org).
  • The ability to customize the issue collector better.
  • Increase functions of automations.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think using a ticketing system is very easy to use and allows multiple teams to create help desks in the same portal. In terms of internal usage, I think this is a great option. However, suppose you're trying to keep internal items and external helpdesks in the same instance. In that case, this is not ideal, as there is no effective way to separate the two instances to protect internal data better.

Vetted Review
Jira Service Management
2 years of experience

Great tool for tasks management

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Jira to report, track and test bugs and new features in our software. We from customer service report it to the devs, the devs fix or improve the features, and then the tasks come back to us so that we can test the efficiency again. We can accept them or reopen them accordingly

Pros

  • Report bugs
  • test bugs
  • reopen or accept tasks

Cons

  • the new interface is cute but a little harder to understand

Likelihood to Recommend

We use Jira to report, track and test bugs and new features in our software. We from customer service report it to the devs, the devs fix or improve the features, and then the tasks come back to us so that we can test the efficiency again. We can accept them or reopen them accordingly

Vetted Review
Jira Service Management
2 years of experience

Jira Service Management facts

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using as service desk tool plus SDLC life cycle management also we use it as business process management

Pros

  • Project management
  • Business process management
  • send webhook requests

Cons

  • Delegation of approvals
  • SLA and OLA reporting
  • Assignment Groups and its view permissions
  • Built in Dashboards

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited:

1- Appling ITIL framework

2- automation module is very helpful aslo sending webhook requests

less appropriate:

1- managing requests and its service catalogue also handling request related to assignment groups especially all organization has different department which handling certain type of request and handling this through security level is hard in big organization casue it depends on reporter maturity

Vetted Review
Jira Service Management
16 years of experience

Best project management software.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my company, we use Jira for project management. We use it to track work progress, bug tracking, and project management. We use it every day for tracking purposes. Our company follows biweekly sprints to manage project goals, so we use Jira to track sprints and capture goals to complete the objectives of the sprint.

Pros

  • Project management.
  • Sprint tracking.
  • Task progress.

Cons

  • Sometimes the description are not updated properly.
  • Sometimes it takes a bit of time to update the status.
  • Sometimes the jira tasks are not loaded properly.

Likelihood to Recommend

For project management, Jira is one of the best software programs on the market. It is the most widely used software for project management and task tracking. It is also easy to integrate it with other softwares. In our company, we integrate it with Slack to get ticket updates.

Powerful and solid tool with room for growth and improvements.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to handle all our Service Requests, Incidents and Changes. We use this for our Internal Customers (collegues who can report issues, or onboarding of collegues e.g.), but also for our external Customers who can raise tickets through the portal we provided them. We use the Asset feature for Asset Management as well.

Pros

  • Out of the box Service Management.
  • A lot of customizations are possible.
  • Offering a portal to customers is easy to do.
  • User Management (for Customers) is easy.

Cons

  • Automatic reporting (for Service Reports) could be alot better.
  • Backend user management is complicated.
  • Assets functionality is not very elaborated.
  • Some features you would expect, such as enforcing MFA, are not included; you have to pay extra.

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe Jira is a very good system for quickly implementing professional service management with most of the bells and whistles you would expect. I would be inclined to say that Enterprise companies, with a lot of custom processes, it is quite some work to implement this in Jira, and likely not everything will be possible.

Vetted Review
Jira Service Management
5 years of experience

Jira Service Management - Great IT support tool

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

- Provide support to business partners within our company

- Track & document issues thoroughly via text, video, images

- Provides a document forum to communicate / clarify issues

- Assign & run reporting on requests/issues

- Provide a detailed dashboard to monitor & track issues from all different stakeholders

Pros

  • Super quick to update
  • Intuitive GUI for all users to update/correspond
  • Easy to track & monitor issues

Cons

  • Not all features are self-serve for our team
  • Creating more complex tracking, adjusting fields, & different dashboards may required more advanced Jira Service Management support

Likelihood to Recommend

- Well suited for those who want a easy to use forum to track & monitor & document issues

- Also allows for operational requests to be tracked & monitored as well

- From an end-user perspective, once your dashboard & project are setup, its very easy & intuitive to use

- May not be suited for those who want more complicated project management tracking

Vetted Review
Jira Service Management
10 years of experience

Widely acxepted ticketing tool in the market

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Jira Service Management is used for various purposes with in the organization. The major use cases are incident management, support requests, change requests, RFP requests etc. Jira Service Management is used for tracking the work till it's completed and used for future references. There is to and fro interaction between author and task assigned member for clarifying the issues in smooth way.

Pros

  • It clearly shows the status of the request
  • Email notification
  • Easy configuration of flow

Cons

  • The user interface is very basic and simple
  • Search option can be optimized while fetching results
  • It can adopt more MS word functionalities for forms

Likelihood to Recommend

Jira Service Management tool is well suited for requests are raising issues incident management, change request, RFP request, etc. Jira Service Management is majorly focused on task completion. This tools is completely suitable for project management where it has more complexity. The tool consists of lot of information related to multiple issues, however it not that suitable as knowledge management where we are dependent on confluence.

Vetted Review
Jira Service Management
3 years of experience