Jira Work Management vs. Linear

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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If you are a product based company, Linear is the most powerful fine-tuned platform. Their methodology really works well. It's fast, got nice UI/UX, feels modern, ability to manage projects, love how they show comments as a thread, the integrations like Figma works really well But if you are a software service company and have multiple client projects, it is hard to manage that in Linear plus you would have to pay for guests if you are inviting client stakeholders to overlook progress.

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• 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

• Managing the high level goals and roadmap of our product
• Manage the tasks for dev, QA and design teams
• Visualise the progress of the sprints and projects
• Collaborate on tasks

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Linear is missing documentation features like Jira Confluence. We can use Notion but it would have been great if Linear offered more comprehensive solution
• Eventhough we can manage releases with projects, it is hard to manage them when there are multiple projects being released at the same time. The initiatives feature kind of handles this but if we can assign tasks to a release that would be awesome
• Being able to invite guests without costing extra money. Platforms like Clickup allow you to invite a limited no of guests without costing extra money.
• Linear is not good if you are software services company and want to manage multiple client projects. Linear is built for product teams.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

Linear is the most UI/UX friendly, modern and well though project management tool out there. I've used ClickUp, Jira, Monday, Asana in the past.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Even though platforms like ClickUp are pretty flexible, Linear is fast, simple, has a lot of keyboard shortcuts, better UI/UX, modern product development concepts built into it, listens to user feedback

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Linear decreased the time we take for releases of features
• Linear has helped us work on multiple projects saving time
• Customer support cases are handled well through Linear which improved customer satisfaction

Incentivized