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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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9 out of 10
March 08, 2024
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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
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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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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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Jira to drive our product development. We use agile to develop our product and it is very easy to create sprint boards and manage stories in Jira. Jira is a revolutionary product and improved the efficiency of our team because it provides transparency within the team.
  • Ticket Management
  • Sprint Boards
  • Reports
  • Configurable fields and workflows
  • Suggested workflows
  • There is scope of improvement in reports
  • Scope of improvement in bulk changes
Jira is suitable for helpdesk management, project management, product management, and reporting.
Jennifer Ferrell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used Jira Software as a core tool to support software development across globally distributed teams for large, complex software deliveries as well as smaller, routine service deliveries. In both cases, we have employed waterfall, iterative or Agile methodologies with Jira Software as our foundation. I found Jira Software added value in every case. Whether using Jira Software manually or vis automation tied to a business requirements system, Jira Software allows all stakeholders to easily get their arms around the work immediately. Near zero ramp-up time, completely intuitive UI/UX, tons of pre-built reports, exceptional dashboards and widgets (including easy-to-read graphics), super flexible tagging and tons of bells and whistles any user can add on - I love Jira Software. In my opinion, no other software comes close.
  • Release management
  • Tagging
  • Process flows
  • Collaboration
  • Bulk ticket processing
  • Pre-built Dashboards
  • Bulk ticket creation via import
  • Automated reminders for stale tickets
Jira Software is extremely well suited for managing anything from a product backlog to a new project or product’s development lifecycle. Tickets may be managed singly or processed in bulk, and existing tickets can be restructured so child and parent tickets can flip roles, or specific ticket types can be moved to a different ticket type that uses a different workflow. Additionally, users have the flexibility of wrapping up all their tickets with a label that readily identifies the collection and allows stakeholders to easily review and drill down within the tagged list. I have not yet encountered a situation where Jira was too onerous or too puny to support my needs.
Jafrul Ahsan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Jira Software in our product improvement life cycle interaction to observe assignments, bugs, and cutoff times. We likewise use this took in monitoring our inner cycles, demands, and therefore the situation with those tickets. This product is used extensively and takes care of the business problems with errand following for all representatives.
  • Work process creation and the board is extremely compelling.
  • Simple and instinctive redoing for fundamental necessities.
  • Clear perceivability of following of the issues.
  • The Kanban board on Jira has bugs and frequently creates blunder alarms, despite the fact that changing a status actually works.
  • Follows a portion of the perplexing joining just as movement from large numbers of the distinctive ALM frameworks.
  • The reports being produced are not reusable.
Jira is an extraordinary instrument to follow your venture's course of events from one finish to another. The Big Picture highlight is astonishing to have a fast look at all that is being dealt with right now, what was finished and what is coming. The ability to separate your association into various overabundances is likewise extraordinary.
Devesh Giri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jira Software is being used to place customer's issues and V&V issues from the delivered load or legacy load it is used to track progress of analysis, tracing assignee, providing resolution to issues assigned, used for creating CR, PAR for the further development. Its used across whole IFS (integrated flight systems), it gives a platform for interaction between costumer's and development team. For any organization handling multiple costumer issues this a must Tool.
  • Jira Software is bug and Issue tracker , tracks the progress and resolution to the issues parked gives the information needed to the management for tracking progress
  • gives multiple tool for task management such as burn-up/down charts, sprint reports, velocity charts, scrum and Kanban boards
  • it supports agile development methodology and works best for everyone be it development team V&V team or the management.
  • Teams can start with a project template or create their own custom workflow. Jira Software issues, also known as tasks, track each piece of work that needs to pass through the workflow steps to completion.
  • Customizable permissions enable admins to determine who can see and perform which actions
  • little difficult for newbies to understand
  • rooms for improvement in GUI
  • sometime lags and delays work progress
Jira Software is useful for the fast paced teams or agile work flow and can build, test, and release software faster and more reliably it can integrate with first- and third-party tools throughout the Development lifecycle, including code and version control tools like Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab, documentation and knowledge management tools like Confluence Serena dimensions (PVCS)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize Jira Software in our software development life cycle process to keep track of tasks, bugs, and deadlines. We also utilize this took in keeping track of our internal processes, requests, and the status of those tickets. This software is used company wide and solves the business problems of task tracking for all employees.
  • Task tracking
  • Notifications of new tasks and task updates
  • Permission based boards and ticket updates
  • Jira Software could use some UI updates for its dashboard
  • Jira Software needs an archive feature for old projects
  • Permission flow for users and projects is very convoluted and hard to manage
Jira Software is very well suited for managing software projects, internal ticket tracking, and task tracking for multiple projects. Jira Software can also be expanded to external usage in bug tracking. Jira Software is less appropriate for timeline coordination and deployment. Although it has features to allow for time tracking, automatic deployments, and lots of integrations, we have found these difficult to implement.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jira Software is being used as a planning and tracking module in our organization, and we have successfully integrated various workflows within the Jira Software to monitor issues and streamline the development environment to cater to any failures. We have created different sets of workflows and software implementation for different teams as per their working requirements and the feature of need base modification makes Jira Software a great solution for multi teams and multi-functional organizations like us. Software availability for different operating platforms is also very helpful it enables us to work remotely without any issues. We have integrated dozens of in-house data sets and applications like Zephyr and Salesforce with Jira Software to customize our working with the module in more functionalized ways. We are using Jira Software in multiple sections of our organization like technology, Marketing and IT, etc.
  • Easy customization and integration with multiple applications as per end user requirements.
  • Coding is easy for building and maintaining state of the art software.
  • Workflow creation and management is great.
  • Availability of software at multiple OS platforms.
  • Manuals are not easily available for hard core coding and software builds.
Jira Software is a great software for multi-dimensional organizations to build tailor-made end-users products for different departments as per their needs. It has the ability to integrate and work within the environment of thousands of third-party applications, which makes it more suitable for different types of organizations and industries.
Angelo Liriano Cepeda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In Aura Systems, we use Jira Software as our Project Management Tool. We adopted Agile Methodology and Jira empower us to iterate our products on development. On a daily basis we review our board, update tasks, change task status and complete sprints. We also use it as knowlegment source with Conduent and take advantage of Slack integration to enable great collaboration.
  • Seamless Integration with development tools such as Slack, Github or Bitbucket.
  • Very customizable workspace; you can choose the components of each task for your board, your own icons, labels and automated workflows.
  • Relate all the issues/tasks with Epics and visualize upcomings results in Product Roadmap.
  • They could improve the format of attaching files on Conduent, using pages with attachments is not the most friendly option.
  • In the board by default is included to-do, doing, done on stages. It would be good to have QA (Quality Assurance) by default with some automations based on time and deployments.
  • I think tasks could have 2 assignees (I know there is a possibility to add an assistant) but some issues are equal responsibility for two collaborators.
Jira is well suited for software development companies that want to ensure appropiate use of Scrum Methodology, best tool available on market because of the possible integrations. Is less appropiate to projects such as Construction where engineers are used just to have Gant Chart as task management view and where focus the most on scope/budget/time.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it across our 20 person product/engineering team to manage our agile product backlog, defects, etc. We have also tried using it with other teams (marketing, support) as a more general product management tool (with varying degrees of success). It helps keep us organized, prioritize, plan iterations, etc.
  • Extremely configurable
  • Good backlog management
  • Excellent ticket/issue structure
  • Integrations
  • The UI, though improved greatly over the years, is still often a bit cumbersome.
  • Workflows (in classic Jira) are still painful to configure and use
I think Jira is a great "all-purpose" agile management tool. It is extremely configurable, so can support nearly any conceivable way of working. This is also its downfall. It is not particularly opinionated, and so it is easy to create configurations or setups that don't work particularly well. If your goal is to implement a consistent and easy to follow agile approach, Jira can seem overly complicated.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jira was owned by our Product and Development team, however, it was used by my Support team to log bug tickets that needed to be addressed by a developer. It allowed us to provide all of the pertinent information regarding a bug in our system and also track the status of work to fix the bug.
  • Customization - you can set up your Jira instance however you would like to meet your needs.
  • Streamlines communication between teams. You can add multiple users across departments with different access.
  • Filter and report to view the information you need. This was important for us in locating open bug tickets submitted by Support so we could stay on top of them.
  • For someone using Jira for the very first time, it is not the most intuitive system. Maybe some more in-app tooltips would be helpful for users logging in for the first few times.
Handling Development requests from outside departments. This may include Support, Billing, Product, etc.
Jennifer Bland | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company currently uses Jira as a Service desk for our IT and circulation departments. One is internal, but for circulation this requires answering tickets for readers of our publication.

For internal uses, it addresses the need for a central location for all IT tickets, as well as asset management. In addition to answering simple requests from employees - all hardware assets are managed in Jira. We setup a project where the tickets are each an asset and it's worked very well. In addition, using our internal management software (custom) we setup an integration which pairs each ticket logged with that asset.

Externally, the Jira system allows us to easily interact with readers who are having issues. The solid email ticket feature was the main attraction for using Jira for this.

  • Manage tickets, whether with or without SLA.
  • Manage projects using agile including a backlog.
  • Managing tickets for users outside the system with the service desk feature.
  • Management of the software is very difficult at times, although has improved.
  • Ability to manage resources is really non-existent, there are some plugins but they are ALL buggy (I've tested them all).
  • Better integration with Trello, would love to see this happen. Right now it's very clumsy.
It's best suited for what it was originally created for, managing a software backlog of tickets - paired with the service desk to manage tickets. Anything else and it gets complicated, FAST. If you go the route of not using service desk and you have a really large organization, you are also looking at a crazy per user cost.

Additionally, if you wish to manage the backlog using agile Kanban - the boards are excellent and can be customized for the team needs. Even has the great ability to style and add rules to flag items. That said, I'd love to see a better integration with Trello as that system's "boards" are much better quality and easier to use. I've got teams using both and Trello is always the winner.

This system can be tailored for other uses, such as storing a "database" of sorts like assets. However, it takes some setup but can work. Where it won't work is managing resources. Say you want to manage resources to ensure you have enough developers to cover future projects - with the current plugins it's VERY difficult. The integrations are always clumsy and get out of sync and the plugins are very slow. Finally, the data it provides is basically useless. You are better off using another tool outside Jira.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
From my involvement, we use Jira to track requests for sustaining projects in IT. If we do use it for new development, I am not exposed to that. Jira helps us communicate with a team when we are making changes to our IT tools that impact multiple departments and keeps track of these changes.
  • Notification of changes - I appreciate the email notification when things have been updated in the tickets.
  • The visual workflow is fantastic
  • This might just be the way that we use it, but the ownership updates as the ticket progress can be a little clunky.
  • I am not sure why on some tickets I can reassign to the next person and on others, I have to request that the assignment gets changed.
I have used Jira in a few different companies. In my current role, I am mostly a user but often have tasks as a tester when we are adding new features to tools that we use. In past companies I had been involved in product development where we utilized Jira to track the entire development process bug fixes, quality issues and it seemed VERY well suited for that type of activity. Currently from my exposure, we are using it more of an IT ticket management system for sustaining projects.
August 09, 2021

Review Jira software

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jira Software is a great interface when it comes to Bug Tracking, centralized usage of board and tasks and gives a better visibility of the tasks which hav been completed, which are in progress, and which would be need attention.
So, the organization uses the Jira software for tracking, better vis[i]bility, for agile project management, customization of the activities and generate reports to check the amount of completion and remaining amount of work.
  • It is being used for Bug, Story and Task tracking, whereas it also enabled the team for recording or even finding or tracking bugs.
  • These are also being used as a product/project management tool and in turn allow the user when it comes to assignment of the tasks which would require attention.
  • It also provides a flexibility of having a kanban board which gives the user with a better vis[i]bility of what has been done, what is in progress and what is still remaining.
  • This software is also being used as a scrum software development which is giving one the scope to be fast paced as it has a fixed and focused iteration.
  • There is also a flexibility for management as well as tracking of the projects that might support both the traditional as well as agile project management and gives a centralized and customization flexibility.
  • There is also a feature enabled in Jira Software for generation of reports like that of the BurnDown Chart, Sprint Chart, Velocity chart etc.
  • There are still room of improvements.
  • When it comes to using Jira Software in Mobile Phone as web version or as mobile version, it doesn't give a great UI / User friendly experience.
  • Follows some of the complex integration as well as migration from many of the different ALM systems.
  • The reports being generated are not reusable.
  • The UI in the application is a little cluttered and also the filtering is not very convenient to use.
1) When it comes to roadmap[ping] the requirements, then this gives a better picture along with the plans to communicate and give a better picture of the goals to the activity of the team's task.
2) This is used for an agile software development and provides a single centralized view of stories or bugs or reports that needs to be generated.
3) This is also used for integrating with different systems like Confluence, Outlook, Slack, Teams etc.
4) This is also highly customizable as it allows the user to create any sort of issue where they can customize the workflow for any of the requirement, and user can also customize the timeline, reports, fields etc.
Ryan McGarry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Jira Software to manage and assign software tickets, track work progress, and help with our internal QA process. This is used for our entire organization, including non-software developers. This helps us in the management and time estimates of projected work, which is necessary for assessing projected costs across multiple projects.
  • It helps with assessing burn-down
  • It helps with assigning work to team members
  • It helps with estimating time to complete projects and manage project work
  • When looking at past work, Jira Software could benefit from a dedicated screen that displays all completed tickets by a specific person
  • Jira Software could use a better mobile interface for quickly seeing tickets assigned to a specific person
  • Integration with other software like Slack is nice, but a lightweight viewer to view tickets would be beneficial to the user
Jira Software is particularly effective for managing and assigning work to employees. It's useful for teams of any size, and is especially focused on use in software development environments. However, the entire suite and many of its tools (such as burn-down charts) are less relevant outside of software development projects, so other software might perform better when working on outside domain projects.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The entire organization uses Jira Software, although to varying levels and in different ways. On my individual team we use it more to plan for upcoming projects and track tasks or bugs. It allows us to not only assign out responsibilities and see their status, but also to determine their priority and also estimate the amount of impact and time the task will take.
  • Offers a variety of ways to create dashboards to view projects, boards, tickets, etc based on any number of personal preferences
  • Can easily receive notifications regarding a project's progress when the ticket is updated by being a watcher on the ticket
  • Offers a robust number of settings for a project board's tickets and how they can be created
  • Is best suited for concrete, clear tasks to be assigned and doesn't work as well for more abstract, loosely defined projects
  • To create projects with multiple steps, the use of Epics can become clunky and integrating dependencies into the process is not easily done
  • It's not terribly intuitive and a new user of Jira Software likely will have a steep learning curve
I think it's great for tracking bugs, support tickets, and other clearly-defined tasks, especially when the time to complete is short or also very defined. It tends to be less useful as project management tool or for planning, especially for longer-term projects with multiple tasks and a large number of collaborators.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used across all SDLC related projects to track activities and progress of the projects. It is used as a database of all the work we have done in the past and the fixes made. It is used as a goal check and a planner that gives a pretty good estimates revolving around releases per sprint.
  • Notifications
  • Tagging Users
  • Category of activity
  • Attachment size
  • Need to Learn Advanced Features
  • Sensitive to Mistyped keys
For any starters, the ease of access at a basic level is pretty adaptable. The task's can be easily tracked for IT progress, [and] tagging users is really easy. Sprint planning becomes a piece of cake and adding/removing tasks is really easy too. It rightly replicates the Agile SDLC. The search engine is pretty fast and gives all related Jiras to the searched keyword.
Ben Williams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jira is currently used as our project management and workflow tool. We use it to keep track of where members of the team are on projects, monitor outstanding jobs, and provide detail around expectations and processes. This is used across the whole company and brings visibility to much of the development work on a wide variety of projects.
  • Customization of workflows and processes.
  • Allows easy access to updates and communication.
  • Links well with Git.
  • Customization of colors and formatting.
  • Easier control over emails being sent.
Jira is well suited to managing project work and workflows. Keeping tabs on people’s progress and monitoring what part of a project the work is currently on. It’s appropriate for linking work to GIT and keeping a track of this. Less appropriate for technical discussions and deep dives into issues as it’s hard to follow and track this on there. Less appropriate to keep running commentary of work.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Jira Software in a variety of ways, including as the main issue tracking system for our engineering department and as a task management system for the rest of the organization. Jira Software is a great solution to manage tasks and track their progress through your business process workflows.
  • Extensibility through custom add-ons
  • Highly configurable with all its major features
  • Great integration with other Atlassian products
  • Many features can be too overwhelming for new users
  • Being very engineering centric increases complexity to non-technical users
For engineering teams, Jira Software is probably one of, if not the best issue tracking system on the market. With its out-of-box integration with other engineering tools, such as Bamboo and BitBucket, it really should be your go-to solution. While it also works very well as a general purpose task management solution, its engineering roots can sometimes make it seem more complex to non-technical users, but after a while, you will start to appreciate its flexibility and features.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jira Software is being used in my organization by all the employees who currently work on projects that require knowledge of business, IT, or finance. It is not a software used by HR, accountants, etc. Jira Software is used to track the tickets that have been created for the IT development project. These tickets can be categorized neatly into categories/labels like bugs, regression, automation, interfaces, etc. It's easy to track the status of these tickets and make attachments like Word documents or videos. You can see whom something is assigned to. Additionally, once the ticket is deployed in a live environment, you can see the versions (used by developers).
  • Easy to create and use labels to distinguish types of tickets in IT projects
  • Easy to track the status of tickets
  • Easy to create dashboards for management on the status of IT projects
  • Developers and analysts can see transparency of code versioning in Jira Software
  • If Jira Software is used more efficiently with other interfaces (e.g., Service NOW), it can be a big win
Jira Software is used by people working on delivering an IT project who need to track status of requirements.
Ideal roles to use Jira Software would be analysts and developers, not roles like HR management.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[Jira Software] is being used across the organization by all teams to track tasks, deliverables, and document information such as meeting minutes during the course of a project. The product managers create the tasks and specify the deadlines and the engineers get assigned tickets to work on. It is also referred to in the Product Life Cycle Management software since a lot of information are included in Jira.
  • Adding a detailed description of the task
  • Tagging different people for comments
  • Adding pictures, documents etc.
  • Often adding a picture needs several tries due to "failed" error messages
  • Time tracking is very basic and can certainly improve
  • The watching option does not always send an email notification with updates, even if it is set to do so
[Jira Software] is well suited for tracking tasks, the progress of the project, and human resource management. It is easy to verify who is available for a new task and who needs support for a time consuming project. It also allows the product manager to see which aspects of the project are done and what is left.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
<div>We use Jira to track every single task that all engineering teams execute. Either for unexpected tasks or for planned tasks that follow the product roadmap, we use Jira to track every task/story that the agile teams work on every spring and daily.</div><div><br></div><div>We also use Jira to quantify each team's capacity, see the progress and evolution of our products, and see how close we are following the schedule to complete the roadmap of each project.</div>
  • Team collaboration
  • Task management
  • Third party integration
  • Documentation
  • Estimation
  • Jira on premise allows to easily make mistakes avoidable with Jira on cloud
  • Jira on cloud is faster to implement but restrictive compared to on premise
Jira will help you adopt a reliable way to track and manage tasks for small, medium, or large organizations.

I have used it in software engineering roles many times for many years, but it can work for virtually any industry.

Time tracking, visibility, planning, all tasks required for most teams in virtually any industry can be solved using Jira.

Kanban, Scrum can both be adopted in Jira.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jira Software is used by the managed services team. Managed services team uses Jira to report, track and manage defects.
This is used as an issue tracking tool at different stages of project lifecycle like development, migrations and post go-live support. There have been several enhancements for the tool for the last 3-4 years with respect to project management.
  • Issues tracking.
  • Defect management.
  • Reporting dashboard for defect management.
  • Project management.
  • Reporting dashboard.
  • Quick filters.
Scenarios where Jira software is well suited - report, track and manage defects at different stages of project lifecycle like development, migrations and post go-live support.
Scenarios where Jira software is less appropriate - If project management calls for managing the project, project requirements and defect tracking in a single place. Also in scenarios where project requirements are mapped to project timelines.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Jira Software extensively for the development, engineering, product, design, and support teams. We manage all of our projects within Jira Software, and our support team also uses it to create bug tickets, tasks, and UX improvement requests on behalf of our customers. It allows for effective and streamlined communications between our teams globally and in various time zones.
  • Cross-team collaboration
  • Integration with other vendors
  • Scalability and customization
  • Reporting and custom boards
  • Search and reporting can be clunky unless you're technical; some folks working in Jira Software aren't super technical and it makes it difficult for them
  • Limitations on things like file sizes make it difficult to collaborate at times; we need to use a cloud host like Dropbox to host files, such as videos, that are too large
Given the most likely audience for Jira Software, it is an excellent performer. It is robust, scales well, and the ability to customize boards is beneficial. The integrations are plentiful, and we have been able to integrate with all the vendors we needed to seamlessly. Jira Software can be used to manage numerous types of projects, not just software development ones, and that's what we've leveraged it for within our organization.
Lisandro Fernigrini | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jira was implemented to track all Product development, customizations, and customer production support tasks in the Argentina solution center. Product development teams keep track of user stories, development tasks, and test cases, while product support attending customers keeps track of bugs or product enhancements, using a single tool that also integrates with other internal/legacy tools.
  • Very customizable, workflows can be defined based on company definitions.
  • Improves communication and access to information. It is easy to understand each item's status, priority, and responsible person.
  • Allows us to prioritize tasks and estimate delivery dates.
  • May have too many options for small and simple projects, making it a little hard to use for starter users.
  • It is more expensive that other options.
  • Help does not cover all options.
It is great to manage a software center or big development teams. It includes all options that are usually needed to manage the product development cycle and it has many customization/configuration options that allow it to adapt to your organization's processes. It is a little too complex for small teams and the effort to customize it may be too much compared with other less complete but still acceptable solutions.
Dustin Ghia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used Jira Software for at least 8 years in my consulting company and in all projects developed for my clients. I have also implemented Jira Software in large government organizations (500+ users).

Jira Software (formerly called Jira Agile) is the best agile tool for planning, managing and tracking software projects and all kinds of projects.

Jira Software's basic setup is very useful because it comes with some powerful out-of-the-box workfow templates (Scrum, Kanban, Classic), and it integrates with other powerful agile and collaborative tools from Atlassian, such as Confluence.

However, Jira Software can be integrated with many more advanced tools, such as Bitbucket, Jenkins, Git, GitLab, etc.
  • Agile software development management and micromanagement with Scrum and Kanban.
  • Agile planning and agile management with Kanban boards and custom boards, for projects and daily work.
  • Agile and old-school bug tracking.
  • Helpful reports on work done, workload, time tracking, Scrum sprints, planned vs. executed, etc.
  • Super friendly setup on the cloud, with just one Gmail account (less than 2 minutes).
  • Powerful on-premise alternative for large companies.
  • You can mergen boards from different workflows!
  • Really free full edition for 10 users.
  • The main issue: on-premise edition for small companies. Currently you can just buy Jira on the cloud for Small companies.
  • A little tricky administration, you have to browse a lot of options to find something.
  • Next-gen workflows are not useful enough for most projects, it's best to use "the software approach" and disable the options you don't need on the screens.
Jira [Software] is the best choice for software development projects and any type of creative project with people working on site or from remote locations. Jira is ideal for agile processes.

Obviously, you can plan and manage a software development project using a Jira Software Kanban board or you can use Scrum workflow if projects are complex, but you can also manage your CRM process with Jira Software using a Kanban board. In other words, Jira Software is ideal for software companies, creative companies and of course for organizations with a Software Department.

However, Jira is not an automation tool, you can manage projects and daily work with Jira Software, but you should not try to automate processes with Jira boards, for that type of requirement there are other technologies.
June 11, 2021

Jira review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jira Software is typically used within regulatory and post market surveillance. In our Regulatory Affairs Quality Assurance department of quality world, it is necessary to track defects / issues and take necessary action based on the investigations. This is where Jira comes in. It is one of the defect / issue tracking software / applications used in our org.
  • Customization - Allows customization as per requirement.
  • Differentiation of elements.
  • Clear visibility of tracking of the issues.
  • Automation.
  • Better UI.
  • Better integration capabilities.
Jira Software is best suited to mid range organization / teams where multiple members of same role work on a single item. Best suited for tracking and monitoring issues / defects / sprints.
The application is somewhat used for internal process management as it doesn't seem suited for external usage to work across teams and outside organization.
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