Jira Work Management vs. Kanban Tool

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Jira Work Management
Score 8.0 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.N/A
Kanban Tool
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Kanban Tool is a visual project management application based on Kanban that helps companies visualize workflow, track project progress, analyze and improve business processes. Some key features include: time tracking and time reports, real-time collaboration and Kaban analytics.
$6
per month per user
Pricing
Jira Work ManagementKanban Tool
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Kanban Tool Team
$6
per month per user
Kanban Tool Enterprise
$11
per month per user
Kanban Tool On-Site Team
$720
per year per 10-user pack
Kanban Tool On-Site Enterprise
$1,320
per year per 10-user pack
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Jira Work ManagementKanban Tool
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Jira Work ManagementKanban Tool
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Jira Work ManagementKanban Tool
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Jira Work Management
8.7
17 Ratings
15% above category average
Kanban Tool
6.6
11 Ratings
13% below category average
Task Management9.017 Ratings9.911 Ratings
Resource Management8.617 Ratings6.48 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.314 Ratings1.03 Ratings
Scheduling8.415 Ratings7.09 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.316 Ratings7.79 Ratings
Team Collaboration9.117 Ratings9.311 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology9.017 Ratings7.810 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology8.59 Ratings3.96 Ratings
Document Management8.513 Ratings4.87 Ratings
Email integration8.714 Ratings7.39 Ratings
Mobile Access8.810 Ratings8.38 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking9.110 Ratings7.96 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.913 Ratings7.77 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.09 Ratings3.04 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Jira Work Management
8.4
12 Ratings
13% above category average
Kanban Tool
6.8
5 Ratings
8% below category average
Quotes/estimates8.110 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Invoicing8.39 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Project & financial reporting8.411 Ratings3.04 Ratings
Integration with accounting software8.64 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Jira Work ManagementKanban Tool
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(17 ratings)
9.9
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Jira Work ManagementKanban Tool
Likelihood to Recommend
Atlassian
Jira work management represents the solution that allows business teams such as Finance, sales or marketing to collaborate with technical teams within Jira. It has so many features like the List view, the Calendar view, the Timeline view, the Boards, Workflows, Forms, Project templates, Dashboards and reports and automation. Jira Core is very well capable of increasing productivity of the teams through centralization of information through these different types of views and the automation allows the teams to invest less time in configuration and more time in execution of work.
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Shore Labs
Kanban is well suited for a fast-paced working environment for larger teams who want continuous communication with users. Kanban is good for rapid development and daily meetings for updates and statuses. Kanban is less suited for smaller teams or groups who don't require collaboration and constant communication with involved users. Kanban is time-consuming and it takes additional effort outside of your regular work to maintain and manage the tool.
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Pros
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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Shore Labs
  • It provides a good basic overview of where tasks are on a timeline (particularly helpful for a pull-based approach).
  • It provides a good collaborative space to have multiple folks commenting on multiple tasks.
  • It does a good job of managing very basic visual elements of an agile development cycle.
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Cons
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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Shore Labs
  • Kanban does not show the task or story clearly. You have to open the project separately to view the details of the project.
  • Kanban gives a higher level project management view but it lacks customization and personal settings features.
  • I would like to see Kanban provide mobile access to their tool, data, and board. This would be very useful for all companies and provide an increase in efficiency and productivity.
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Likelihood to Renew
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Shore Labs
We are more likely than not to renew our use of Kanban. Even with its limits, it still is a good product that fulfills our needs.
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Usability
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Shore Labs
Again, this is a strong tool for software teams using Agile that are distributed across multiple geographies. It can be good for co-located teams too, but there are better platforms on the market like JIRA that provide a more built-out story.
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Support Rating
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Shore Labs
This is the best tool I had a chance to work with- since I started to use it I saved a lot of time and I made my work go smoothly.
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Alternatives Considered
Atlassian
Jira provides multiple functionalities which any project needs during implementation. It has the feature of tagging the right owner to the issues. It has made the life of project managers easier to track the resolutions and efforts which was utilised for completing the task. It also provides the feature of attachment where users can attach their testing result/progress in the ticket created in Jira.
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Shore Labs
We've only tried JIRA Agile and KanbanFlow before. Kanban Tool was the one that our team actually liked and enjoyed working with. Also - it's been much easier to get started with and to understand than some of the other two (JIRA in particular). Although JIRA has many more features that we would have possibly used, the user feedback on it was so poor we were afraid that the negativity would create time wasted and less "job satisfaction" amongst the team.
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Return on Investment
Atlassian
  • It has allow us the proper documentation of over 50 products.
  • Time spent on activities has been reduced by a 25%.
  • The reporting module has allowed us to identify over 10 problems in our workflow, allowing us to solve them and become more effective and efficient with it.
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Shore Labs
  • Better communication and organization of ongoing projects.
  • We are a very small team, with many areas to work on. Having everything in one system gives us a lot of visibility.
  • Greatly reduced costs from using other tools that were much more expensive.
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ScreenShots

Kanban Tool Screenshots

Screenshot of Visual project management tool - Kanban board from Kanban Tool.Screenshot of The collection of Power-Ups form Kanban ToolScreenshot of Kanban Tool board example, with My Work widget, Recurring and Postponed Tasks visible in the side panel. User's own background selected.Screenshot of Kanban Tool  board example. Default light theme applied.Screenshot of Kanban Tool - an open card view, with comments in the side panel. The choice of what fields show on cards is with the user.Screenshot of Kanban Tool's free Power-Ups  for user's own activation.