SpiraPlan Reviews

Feature-Rich Project Management Tool

Comments: An effective all-in-one project management solution that keeps everything in order is SpiraPlan. Although it works well with other programs, its complicated UI may initially seem daunting. Although performance slows down on huge projects, it is generally good. It's powerful and feature-rich overall, but usability could be enhanced.

Pros:

One notable feature of SpiraPlan is its comprehensive approach to project management. It makes it simple to track everything in one location by integrating requirements, test cases, tasks, and defects into a single platform. Teams are kept productive and organized by the customized workflows and real-time dashboards. Additionally, cooperation is facilitated by its interaction with well-known tools like GitHub and Jira.

Cons:

The user interface of SpiraPlan feels antiquated, can be intimidating, and lags while working on big projects.

Team project planning with SpiraPlan

Comments: Collaborating project with our technical department is smoother with SpiraPlan. Both department has fully understand this software capabilities which make us know where the limit and can properly planning for project without problem and miscommunication.

Pros:

Every feature and tools that are much needed to planning a project either for small project and larger project is available to be use within this software. Selection for type of service and tools that can be integrated is quite huge and cover all the tools that we use. Planning board can be drag, drop and duplicate across the project list.

Cons:

The report generated is not as extensive is it should, some details are not readily included and no customization to the report seem can be done. Manual testing is slow to load all the resource and i had to restart the whole process again to properly load all the related resource. Other than that, everything is working as it supposed.

We've used SpiraTeam in my company for over 5 years and it is great tool for Test Management.

Pros:

I'd like to have versioning for requirements and others, Faster UI and Navigation. Dashboards with all the needed reports and graphs

Cons:

When lots of test cases are created the app gets sloppy and confused Missing dashboards and better reports

A review of spiraPlan

Comments: Provides valuable insights into project progress, risks, and performance through customizable reports and dashboards

Pros:

SpriraPlan is a best comprehensive platform that offers a valuable solution for terms seeking to improve their requirements management and test management processes

Cons:

This offers a wide range of features within each area, providing comprehensive support for the entire software development lifecycle

Use of SPIRA

Comments: I´m tracking our development processes for a waterfall/V-Modell process

Pros:

Easy to administrate. Ready to go after installation. Web access. Easy to handle.

Cons:

Editable workflows not for all items. Baselining comes this year.

Alternatives Considered: Jira, ALM/Quality Center and Polarion ALM

Reasons for Choosing SpiraPlan: Not so easy to administartate, Cost - Use realation

Switched From: ALM/Quality Center

Reasons for Switching to SpiraPlan: costs, easy to use

Our R&D - managed, at last!

Comments: We used a maintenance release for one of our medical devices as a trial. Spira allowed very easy control of Requirements and Test artifacts and especially traceability and traceability reporting, which is vital for e.g. the FDA submissions.

Pros:

* Easy to set up (meaning the project templates, users, customizable fields, etc.) * Very good integration possibilities with other tools * Attractive GUI * Great customization possibilities for reports * REST API available and well documented

Cons:

* Support for reviews is a bit rudimentary - this is, IMO, the weakest part of the tool. We'd prefer to have the possibility to submit sets of artifacts for review, defined review groups, and allow adding Approvals and Discussion threads (similar to e.g. Gitlab)

Alternatives Considered: Polarion ALM, Visure Requirements and codebeamer

Reasons for Switching to SpiraPlan: Value for money Simple setup Provides everything we need and no redundant features

Good tool for requirement and test case management

Pros:

It is clear how the tool is set up and how to work with it

Cons:

The usability can get some improvements

Plan my project with SpiraPlan

Pros:

From last 6 months SpiraPlan superbly plan my lots project. It's really value for the cost.

Cons:

In search options face Must search in capital letters.Please fix this.

SpiraPlan review

Pros:

I love SpiraPlan because the task section is easy to create and can drag it to combine it with existing task parent.

Cons:

The daily report should have more details on it and more customization which details that we want to be included on the report.

Very satisfied with SpiraTeam's requirements management features and functions.

Comments: I can easily manage software requirements for any size software development project.

Pros:

The value for the money. I primarily use SpiraTeam for requirements management. From that perspective alone, SpiraTeam's functionality is as good or better than IBM/Rational, HP, or ReqTool. To have all the other functionality (test management, task management, Kanban, reporting, etc.) include in the package is a true value-add.

Cons:

It's a minor inconvenience: response time when first logging-in to the system is somewhat slow. But once the system responds to my login attempt, response time is acceptable - at least as good as other cloud-based systems I use.

Review for "SpiraPlan"

Pros:

SpiraPlan is really good to understand the needs for the organization and deploy things likewise.

Cons:

Some lagging issues i face but other than that everything is good.

So Easy to Implement

Comments: Excellent! I've used other ALMs in the past and this is, by far, the easiest and most flexible of them. It just makes sense!

Pros:

The software is highly intuitive and incredibly easy to implement within either a new or structured environment. Set-up and configuration to meet my business needs was simple and the online manuals and YouTube guides were a real asset. The product is easy to customise and use and you can have a relatively non-technical team using it in no time, even business people!

Cons:

The Reporting suite could be better. It's a little clunky to customise but the out-of-the-box reports are more than adequate to get started and will, in most instances, meet all of a Project's needs.

Great product for managing your software development projects at a reasonable price

Comments: A full ALM for our company to support a major multi year ERP implementation. Minimal setup and training was required and the tool has proved reliable for us.

Pros:

When evaluating solutions for an Application Lifecycle Management tool it became clear to me that the choice would be SpiraTeam (including SpiraPlan). For the price to feature ratio, it could do everything and more than we would need. With the ability to just add additionally licenses as our team grew it provided the flexibility we needed. The support team at Inflectra is also top notch. Any time I had a question/issue, they were there to help in a quick and friendly manner.

Cons:

Some areas of the application UI can be a little clunky and unintuitive at times. Inflectra does take user feedback seriously though and I have been able to work with them to resolve most issues we faced.

Spiraplan

Comments: overall, very positive.

Pros:

Ability to customize to my company's needs. Ability to link with other programs for automated testing

Cons:

some basic features: unable to link an incident to at test case; can only link an incident to an individual test step. When using the main search feature, you have to use caps to search for an incident, task, test case by the IN:XXXX

The tech support was very responsive to help me to set the environment. So impressed.

Comments: Effective work process

Pros:

It is a worry free software for software development projects for me. Packed features allow the team to grow.

Cons:

Better integrated source code management features for code review. Online development environment could be great as well to further simplify the development operations

Siraplan on strategic plan

Comments: very interesting and educating

Pros:

very important and has develop me skills and understanding what a strategic plan is all about

Cons:

not at all . all are interesting and educative

Good ALM for startups

Comments: It was a great option at a time the company hadn't selected a requirements management agile tool. Ever since we moved to JIRA, it was best to move to the much simpler, speedier, easy to integrate, TestRail tool.

Pros:

A much improved interface UI for testing and positively best option for requirements management in a testing tool

Cons:

very slow access on shared hosting - windows server only - very difficult to integrate with 3rd party APIs

Quick review of Spira-Test

Comments: Well let's face it. You don't charge a lot of money.
However, for an extra grand + change I can get MS Test Manager.
Both yours and that product are under evaluation.
I think you have the start of a good program.
I'll keep evaluating and if the check comes in the mail: you win.

Pros:

I like the ability to connect the requirements to bugs to tests. It's reasonably priced. Your support team is very responsive The logo if pretty good too

Cons:

We won't use the bug tracker. Not feature rich enough. The description field is just too small to be useful. See Bugzilla which is free. That is what we are going to continue using. For Requirements, we won't use that either except maybe at a very high level. My Product manager is looking for a better description page. We use MS Word and that allows up to view the requirement in full. Our requirements are multiple pages. What you offer is too limiting.

Great product - especially good for remote project management

Comments: I have used SpiraPlan for several years to help manage projects. It is a very stable and reliable piece of software. I find it great for managing tasks for staff working remote from the office. It took a bit of getting used to at first as there are several ways of setting up projects. However once you get the hang of it and find the way it works for you it is great. I really like the import / export functions to Microsoft Excel and MS Project - very useful. Also the ability to set up you own custom fields gives it a lot of flexibility. I have used several other software products over the years so have used both good and not so good ones, and I would thoroughly recommend SpiraPlan.

Very comprehensive

Comments: Reporting and controlling testing workflow.

Pros:

Flexibility on configuration plus control features useful for regulated clients.

Cons:

Workflow slightly difficult to configure.

Easy to use

Comments: Overviee

Pros:

Dashboard is so simple and complex. Reports export is usefull and usable. We are happy to use this sw.

Cons:

Individual setup seems to me as complicated. Many features is not used due hide somewhere. Need to be more user friendly and intuative.

New Tool - central repository

Comments: Good and Useful

Pros:

New tool , 1 tool for multi functions

Cons:

I am new to thistool so need to learn alot

Great overall.

Comments: One stop experience for the entire ALM.

Pros:

Like the one stop at a software for entire application lifecycle. The licensing fee model was also good.

Cons:

User interface could be improved similar to Version in agile user stories or even Trello.

Excellent customer support

Pros:

Full featured

Cons:

A little complex

Herramienta de gestión de proyectos muy util

Pros:

Esta herramienta contiene todo lo que puedes necesitar para la gestión de todo tipos de proyectos. Buena relación calidad precio.

Cons:

En ocasiones se puede notar algo de lentitud al manejar la plataforma por lo demás bien