Jira Work Management vs. Microsoft Planner

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
Microsoft Planner
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Planner is presented as a solution to organize teamwork with intuitive, collaborative, visual task management. With it, users can create Kanban boards using task cards with files, checklists, and labels. Users can collaborate in Planner and Microsoft Teams and check visual status charts—all in the Microsoft cloud.N/A
Pricing
Jira Work ManagementMicrosoft Planner
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Jira Work ManagementMicrosoft Planner
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
Jira Work ManagementMicrosoft Planner
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Jira Work Management
8.7
17 Ratings
15% above category average
Microsoft Planner
-
Ratings
Task Management9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.617 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.314 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling8.415 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.316 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration9.117 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology8.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management8.513 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration8.714 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access8.810 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking9.110 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.913 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.09 Ratings00 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
Microsoft Planner
-
Ratings
Quotes/estimates8.110 Ratings00 Ratings
Invoicing8.39 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting8.411 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software8.64 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Jira Work ManagementMicrosoft Planner
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(17 ratings)
7.1
(16 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Jira Work ManagementMicrosoft Planner
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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Microsoft
I think Planner is a good platform for manage projects especially if I think that is integrated in MS Teams so, with a unique platform you can have the control about the project, about all the documents linked to the same project and at the same time, with the possibility to chat with other team members without change platform. I think also there are other platform (like Jira or Trello) which are better in terms of layout
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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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Microsoft
  • Add as many plans as you want
  • Keeps tasks organized via Buckets into each plan
  • Ability to create a plan directly within Teams via the Tasks app
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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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Microsoft
  • Would be nice to see a calendar view instead of a list view
  • Permissions aren't configurable, anyone can delete any task at any time and there is no recycle bin
  • Notifications aren't great, you have to be attached as an owner to a task to see comments and be notified of changes, and even then notifications aren't shown for a lot of things
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Likelihood to Renew
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
It's not up to me, but if it were, I would not recommend using this. It is another work productivity app, which, while it has its benefits, can actually detract instead of enhance work productivity.
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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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Microsoft
Many areas of the company still use Trello to organize their activities and tasks, but gradually Microsoft Planner must replace the activities. Users are often "attached" to familiar technologies, but Office 365 takes advantage of the more organized use of the tools. This year we will not renew the Trello contract.
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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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Microsoft
  • It definitely have a positive impact in terms of ROI. as it is a part of Microsoft Suite so no need to put extra for its integration with teams or office
  • It also allows communication/chatting between team on any task and things can be clear on the spot in a timely manner
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