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Jira Software

Overview

What is Jira Software?

Jira Software is a project management tool from Atlassian, featuring an interactive timeline for mapping work items, dependencies, and releases, Scrum boards for agile teams, and out-of-the-box reports and dashboards.

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Recent Reviews

Jira is a Saviour

9 out of 10
March 08, 2024
Incentivized
Jira Software is a project management tool that is widely used by various teams in our organization to manage their projects and tasks. …
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TrustRadius Insights

Easy-to-use tool with minimal learning curve: Users have found JIRA to be an intuitive and user-friendly tool that requires minimal effort …
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Pricing

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Standard

$8.15

Cloud
per month per user (minimum 10)

Premium

$16

Cloud
per month per user (minimum 10)

Data Center

$44,000

On Premise
per year 500 users

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $81.85 per month 10 users
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Product Demos

JIRA Project Management Tutorial for Beginners (2022)

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The full overview: Roadmaps in Jira Software

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Product Details

What is Jira Software?

Jira Software is a project management tool software used by agile teams and supports any agile methodology, be it scrum, kanban, or a team's own unique flavor. From agile boards to reports, users can plan, track, and manage agile software development projects. And since not every team works the same way, Jira Software allows teams to customize workflows, permissions, and schemes to match the unique needs of each team.


Jira templates also support use cases in enterprise marketing management, and projects to support operations, design HR, and enterprise marketing management.


With Jira Software, teams are able to:

  • Track versions, features, and progress at a glance
  • Re-prioritize user stories and bugs
  • Estimate stories, adjust sprint scope, check velocity, and re-prioritize issues
  • Estimate, track and report on story points; become more accurate
  • Report on agile metrics to provide real-time, actionable data on team efficiency, quality, and overall performance
  • Integrate with all the tools their dev team is already using, from the rest of the Atlassian suite (Bitbucket, Bamboo, Fisheye, and Crucible) to other popular developer tools on-premise or cloud (e.g., GitHub and Jenkins).
  • Provide greater flexibility to curate which teams have access to which information with sprint and project-level permissions
  • Flexibly tailor Jira tasks and their workflows to a specific team's use case
  • Extend Jira with over 1,800 apps from the Atlassian Marketplace to fit any capability not provided by default

Jira Software Videos

Jira in a Nutshell Demo Video
Jira Software is a software development project management tool of sorts, that tracks progress, offers up project reports, and gives a great roadmap view to understand workloads and deadlines better. In this video, the TrustRadius team goes over Jira Software pricing, top feat...
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Jira Software Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

Jira Software is a project management tool from Atlassian, featuring an interactive timeline for mapping work items, dependencies, and releases, Scrum boards for agile teams, and out-of-the-box reports and dashboards.

Jira Software starts at $81.85.

Bugzilla, Podio, and Zoho Projects are common alternatives for Jira Software.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of Jira Software are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Easy-to-use tool with minimal learning curve: Users have found JIRA to be an intuitive and user-friendly tool that requires minimal effort to learn. Several reviewers mentioned that they were able to navigate through the platform easily and quickly adapt to its features.

Seamless collaboration through integration with other tools: Many users appreciated JIRA's ability to integrate with various plugins and add-ons, enabling seamless collaboration across different teams and departments. This integration allowed for enhanced productivity by bringing together different tools into one centralized platform.

Flexibility of customization: The flexibility of JIRA in terms of customization was highly regarded by users. They mentioned being able to customize bugs, tasks, and stories based on the specific requirements of their projects. This flexibility helped them tailor JIRA to their unique project management needs.

Confusing and overwhelming user interface: Many users have expressed frustration with the confusing and overwhelming user interface of JIRA. They find it difficult to efficiently complete tasks due to a lack of intuitive navigation and cluttered design.

Complexity and difficulty in customization: A significant number of reviewers find JIRA's customization options to be complex and challenging. It often requires dedicated training to effectively navigate and utilize the software's customization features.

Limitations in reports, charts, and attachments: Users have reported challenges in sharing information within JIRA due to limitations in reports, charts, and attachments. These limitations hinder effective collaboration, communication, and data visualization.

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Reviews

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March 08, 2024

Jira is a Saviour

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jira Software is a project management tool that is widely used by various teams in our organization to manage their projects and tasks. This tool is so feasible as it helps us to customize the information collected from customers and used by your agents by using issue type fields and screens.
It is a very good tool for collaborating with the team, managing the requirements, tracking issues and keeps the account of all the tasks, issues handled by each member of the team.
Tanner Judge | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My organization uses JIRA to organize projects and track velocity across teams. The business problem that this product addresses for my company is that we use it as a tool to communicate asynchronously across large project teams, report our tracking metrics, project-manage, and even plan and develop larger product roadmaps.
February 21, 2024

Atlassian Architect

Michael Blake | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Jira Software for both Service management and for tracking business processes. It is great for automatically sending out notifications when they are needed - set up of notification schemes and workflows are required, but are easy to configure. Jira Software also comes with dashboards with gadgets which make it really easy to visualize the ongoing work in different ways. The agile boards make it easy to transition issues, just click and drag to the appropriate column. All transition popups occur directly in the agile board without having to leave the board and come back to it. I have been working with Jira Software and Confluence for 17 years in various capacities. It was originally difficult to learn, but with the builtin project templates, now the configuration is much, much easier. One of the great things about Atlassian (Jira Software's vendor) is that they offer certification in various areas within Jira Software and this aids in job security and ability to show off your skills as they apply to different companies and organizations.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Jira Software for an agile methodology. It is used often used for scrum meetings, kanban boards management for daily and sprint tasks, bugs management and analysis.<br>It provides way to communicate between teams and organizations to track the status and observations of the every bug or task ticket.<br>We mostly used for development purposes as to plan, to manage and track the development projects.<br>It widely used in other teams also apart from development team like bug status tracking and software integrations.<br><br>Overall, It is the single tool used for most of the important process in the software fields.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Jira majorly for the following
- tracking sprints
- tracking metrics
- tracking all user stories
- tracking all epics
- tracking all bugs
- tracking current status of each Jira task
- creating kanban board and many other types of dashboards for better visibility to end stakeholders

Johanes Siregar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
JIRA is being used by multiple departments within IT group. We used it mainly for bug and defect tracking, we also use it to coordinate and communicate tasks within a single or multiple department. It solves the hassle of tracking and documenting our activities and it also enables us to summarize progress and generate reports easily.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Jira to store all our Jira tickets related to any software development project or release. This will help aid BA, Testers, UX Designer with status updates, solution design and scheduling associated with it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We've been using Jira to track feature releases right from the requirement gathering phase to product delivery. The tasks as part of these deployments are broken down into different levels and accordingly it becomes easier for the team to work on them efficiently. It ca be used by all developers, testers and product managers. Jira is an effective ALM solution that also helps with defect tracking, test case management and more. It provides us various fields while creating issue types that help in setting priorities and criticalities, description, labels, story points, links and more. It's very easy to manage the life cycle of such issue types like create, clone, delete, attaching media, comments, move and more. It helps to keep track of data and work done across feature releases more effectively.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our team needed an application to which could support agile methodology of Scrum. We wanted a tool to help teams plan, track, and manage their work. We use Jira Software to solve our problems of requirement gathering, backlog management, sprint planning and tracking, and reporting to management. We also use it for gathering requirements, roadmap planning and reporting bugs in a single place.
The scope of our use is at the team (department) level.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We mainly use Jira software for tracking issues, tasks & bugs.
- Problems addressed by this software:
1. Keeping the whole team in single and transparent track.
2. Helps in solving issues more efficiently.
3. Bugs tracking is more effective.
- Scope of use case:
1. It is very important tool in terms of software development lifecycle.
2. Helps in tracking bugs and overall enhancing the security features of our product.
3. It helps business in terms of reducing overall cost.

Sarthak Chopra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Jira in our business process very frequently and is a very effective tool for project management. Collaboration with internal and external parties becomes easy with the same. Ticketing feature is awesome which also displays several fields like TAT, status. Best part is we've integrated it with Slack which is pretty seamless and simple and saves a lot of time and effort simultaneously.
Alexandru Cristian Ion | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use Jira as a work management tool. Jira is very helpful in creating and managing work projects and keep track of the projects. Jira can also be configured with addons, even for Service Desk, that will help call centre managers, help desk agents. I am mainly using Jira for tracking the sprint work and for opening bugs, where it is very configurable, the Jira Administrator being able to configure the fields almost everywhere in the app.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jira is used if want to have some new feature or edit an existing feature in our product. The manager creates a ticket on Jira with all the details of the work that is to be done along with the metadata. Detailed writing can be done by adding images, URLs, etc for the task that is to be done. We developers directly get the email for that particular ticket and we can easily understand the changes to be done and start working as per the priority mentioned by the ticket creator.
September 19, 2022

Go Agile in the right way

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Jira Software mainly for our Engineering department, this includes Software engineers, Dev Ops, IT, and DBAs. We use Jira Software as our main Agile software development process software tool. We use it to track projects end to end, from writing the initial idea to the point that is deployed in Prod. Jira is being used to ensure that our development process is flowing through an Agile framework and it helps to have a clear view of the project's timelines.
Alexander Delivlaev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jira Software is used to [organize] and track our work. We have multiple backlogs and boards, each team with it's own. It is used across the whole [organization] and addresses our need for quantifying the progress on our tasks.
Partha Roy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
So Jira has been the primary task management software at our organisation for a long time now, it started as a task management product for our day-to-day task tracking. However, with its various integrations with almost all the tools and platforms required for software engineering, Jira has become an end-to-end project management platform for us. Now, we manage our end-to-end product engineering process by using Jira.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Jira for bug/improvement tracking and following Agile Methodology. We create tickets for our development work, plan which tickets to pick in the current Sprint, update statuses as the work is completed, and then get them closed. It also has the option to create team-wise boards which let you track the tickets for the whole team in a single place. This helps manage and estimate the work being done by the whole team. It also gets connected with GitLab so when we push something to Git with the commit message having a JIRA ticket number, the same starts to reflect on the ticket. Along with all this, we can comment and track the history of a ticket which makes things easier to track.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company uses Jira to manage projects, and digital products, create roadmaps, and manage product pipelines, documentation, teamwork, resource management, track issues, and marketing campaigns. We divide our product teams. We really like that it includes scrum boards, and can generate reports, including plugins and integrations with tools like Microsoft Teams, Slack, and GitHub. Jira offers great tutorials and guides that can get your team up and running. It has helped our company tremendously with our workflow and processes.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The CS, Engineering, and Product teams use Jira Software to manage platform defects, feature requests, and tasks. We also use Jira Software to track projects for new apps and improving existing apps. This is a cornerstone application for us since it runs our entire Engineering and Product operations.

We rely on Jira Software to prioritize work across multiple groups inside the Engineering team who handle different aspects of the platform. Having cross-functional visibility is key to understand and track the workload being distributed across the backend and frontend teams.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Good issue tracking tool with all features defined clearly. Also, helps us manage daily agile activities with better viewability. But, can be improved in some areas. Examples: UI is too subtle, search patterns are not good enough, etc. The tool helps in tracking all items individually or separately using dashboards. Helps user manage their work and see live progress within the team.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Enabling tech to work closely with the product team and drive a shared vision of results. Enabling tech to work closely with the product team and drive a shared vision of results. Enabling tech to work closely with the product team and drive a shared vision of results. Enabling tech to work closely with the product team and drive a shared vision of results.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jira [Software] is used by delivery teams mostly for backlog management in an SAP context. Developers and analysts can manage and follow-up on their workload by assigning colleagues, adding extra information and entering times. This helps streamline overall projects effort and document everything from A to Z for traceability purpose. Basic customizing was sufficient for us (custom fields, some rules, etc.), but Jira [Software] definitely provides near-infinite possibilities when it comes to making it your own.
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