Backlog vs. Jira Work Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Backlog
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Backlog is a project management and bug tracking tool for teams that want higher productivity, greater visibility, and simple project tracking. Development teams can work together with Design, Marketing, IT, and more. Backlog is designed to get everyone on track by organizing work, teammates, projects and tasks. The activity feed and watchlist are designed to help users keep an eye on relevant work and deadlines. Gantt charts and burndown charts are designed to help users visualize project…N/A
Jira Work Management
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Jira Core is Atlassian's general purpose business and project management tool available to smaller companies or teams and designed to suit a variety of purposes (e.g. marketing planning, product roadmap, etc.). In Jira Core, Workflows define process and enable teams to track tasks. Jira Core Cloud instances also have boards that let users visualize workflows and drag and drop tasks from to-do to done. It is available on the cloud.
$7.53
per month per user
Pricing
BacklogJira Work Management
Editions & Modules
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Free
$0
Starter - Monthly
$7.53
per month per user
Premium - Monthly
$13.53
per month per user
Starter - Annually
$22,500
per year User tier: 201-300
Premium - Annually
$40,500
per year User tier: 201-300
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BacklogJira Work Management
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Backlog
7.0
3 Ratings
10% below category average
Jira Work Management
7.8
30 Ratings
1% above category average
Task Management10.03 Ratings8.530 Ratings
Gantt Charts7.03 Ratings7.223 Ratings
Scheduling10.03 Ratings8.125 Ratings
Team Collaboration10.03 Ratings8.629 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology5.03 Ratings8.120 Ratings
Document Management10.03 Ratings7.024 Ratings
Email integration3.03 Ratings7.424 Ratings
Mobile Access1.03 Ratings6.618 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings8.529 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings7.327 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.129 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings8.118 Ratings
Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.522 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings7.217 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
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Backlog
-
Ratings
Jira Work Management
8.7
19 Ratings
12% above category average
Quotes/estimates00 Ratings9.215 Ratings
Invoicing00 Ratings9.812 Ratings
Project & financial reporting00 Ratings8.517 Ratings
Integration with accounting software00 Ratings7.410 Ratings
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User Ratings
BacklogJira Work Management
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(3 ratings)
8.1
(30 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.8
(13 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BacklogJira Work Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Nulab, Inc.
ticket management
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Atlassian
Jira Work Management suits projects involving multiple teams, such as product development. In our case, the design, development, and QA teams use Jira to track tasks from ideation to deployment. Custom workflows and real-time updates ensure that all teams are on the same page, and the ability to link related tasks helps manage dependencies effectively.
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Pros
Nulab, Inc.
  • Backlog is one of the best management and collaboration tools available in the market for better managing of resources at the workplace.
  • I have been using this platform for a very long time and it has been helping me a lot to manage the business processes, manage employees, managing leads on different projects, and coordinating with colleagues.
  • It has been helping me a lot to check the issue in the project completion.
  • It gives me real-time status on the project/gives right insights of the system.
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Atlassian
  • Provide a roadmap of all epics
  • Provide a backlog in which you can see all the possible work to be done to create your sprint plan
  • Have all our projects within reach
  • Have a dashboard with editable columns to manage your work
  • Be able to filter by person
  • Be able to see past sprints
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Cons
Nulab, Inc.
  • Price is very high for small teams and department of short term contracts.
  • GUI can be more intuitive.
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Atlassian
  • More clarification on where to find useful tools and resources for new users.
  • Breakdown of Projects, Tasks, Sub-tasks, bugs is hard to follow and cannot be changed once created.
  • The ability to customize the dashboard/home page to fit the needs of individuals could use some work.
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Usability
Nulab, Inc.
nice to use in the night as well
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Atlassian
As we are Atlassian users overall, this entire ecosystem is truly built from a 360 perspective. It becomes the one source of truth, and we can easily see where we are in our projects and where to emphasize focus in the upcoming period. There are some areas for minor improvements, but they are more a matter of preference rather than business necessity
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Support Rating
Nulab, Inc.
I would give 9 but one less because of the high price.
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Atlassian
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Alternatives Considered
Nulab, Inc.
Backlog has all of the top-notch features to increase productivity, visibility, and project tracking. Backlog is easy to use. I first just logged in to the platform and it was [ready] to go. I easily started working on it and it started giving me the bugs’ details on our project. Always available for queries. Listen to the queries very attentively and try to give a solution on the go if applicable. Otherwise, take some time and respond with the advanced workable solution in the limited time frame.
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Atlassian
The evolution of Jira Service Desk to Jira work management is accompanied by lot of new features like the List View which allows inline editing, easy column management, the Calendar View bases on extensible modal and state categories, the Timeline View supports tasks and subtasks, the Boards which allow the categorization of status and allow the visibility of subtasks on the cards, Forms can be created very easily, Project templates can be used based on the business area.
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Return on Investment
Nulab, Inc.
  • SLA should be given by single candle
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Atlassian
  • For our marketing team, Jira Work Management caused us to lose valuable work time due to manual updates that could have been automated.
  • Due to lack of creative review tools within Jira Work Management, our team had to pursue other tools that do not integrate with Jira Work Management, thus creating additional OpEx.
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of Projects home pageScreenshot of Gantt chartScreenshot of GitScreenshot of commenting in issuesScreenshot of subtasking