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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
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.atlassian.com/software/jira…

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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January 16, 2020

JIRA for Agile is must

Saugandh Karan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
JIRA is used by our department here. It has helped us a lot. We work in a ScaleAgile mode hence it has helped us a lot in performing our Agile movement in our work. We have improved the way we work and all our efforts are tracked properly. Ability to provide screenshots of our work also help us to answer the Scrum master better.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
bepress adopted JIRA across the entire organization to be used in conjunction with Confluence, however the result with JIRA tended to be departments using the software in a very atomized way, each unit using it for what it needed internally with the exception of IT who used it as their ticketing system. Our department (Marketing) used JIRA to track campaigns, initiatives, language, and conferences.
December 10, 2019

Jira Software Review

Jyoti Arora | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jira is used across the organization. This includes the development team, business analysts, project managers, and others. This is used to save project requirements as user stories. Estimation is also done on these stories, so estimates are also saved. We also use it for scheduling, as we can create Scrum boards/Kanban boards or simple task boards and depict all the tasks a team is working on. It's a very visual tool.
November 16, 2019

JIRA is the best!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my office, I am working as in Quality Assurance and we all are using JIRA Software to track issues. This is the best tool for tracking all the issues, stories, epic, test cases, etc. So far, I haven't faced any issues using JIRA over the past 3 years.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
JIRA is used in my organization for Application Lifecycle Maintenance (ALM) activities. It is used in collaboration with Confluence/Wiki for capturing detailed:
1. User stories in form of project backlog
2. Acceptance criteria
3. Creating bugs
4. Analysis ticket
5. Maintaining story workflows (from ready for dev to closed)
6. Logging work hours spent on each individual ticket/story

It is also very helpful in creating a very simplistic boundary line between the on going sprint and the backlog (all my projects have been executed in Agile mode). In addition to it, as my projects have always had more than one sprint going on simultaneously and the stories part of those sprints related to each other, it acts as a very elegant tool for representing such views where the information is easy to comprehend for any developer or tester.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses JIRA as a project management tool between our project management office, our product management team, and our research and development team to plan, coordinate, and deliver on product releases encompassing multiple initiatives, epics, features, users, stories, and tasks. Each team is responsible for various components of a release from inception to end-of-life.
Kyle Kochtan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
JIRA is being currently utilized as a second tier ticketing and workflow management system. Our users create a ticket in our regular ticketing system for an enhancement and such. Once it has been approved a ticket and sub tasks with all the detail are input into JIRA and tracked. We then use JIRA in our weekly meetings to give updates and such.
Richard Davies | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Jira as the product management tool for our agile web team of about 12 people that are doing a major redesign/rebuilding of our city's main website. It's used to plan and track the individual tasks, stories, and bugs assigned to each team member. It also provides helpful reports showing our sprint velocity and other useful metrics.
Harry Miller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used throughout our organization. We use it to plan, monitor and develop your projects quickly and easily. With Jira, plan your daily work by creating user stories, incidents or assigning tasks and subtasks to your team members. Integration with the main development environments such as Eclipse, Visual Studio, Netbeans, make it an effective and productive alternative.
August 14, 2019

JIRA works

Tory Trone | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
JIRA Software is used by the website development group. It tracks our new projects, our system bugs, and system problems. We use it to communicate with our workers who are off-site. We also use JIRA with Github to number our Git branches. Using JIRA's ticket codes keeps everything in sync and reduces problems.
Cristian Bodnarasec | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use JIRA as a project management and a bug tracking tool for most of the company projects. Whether it is software development, ASIC design or IP development, JIRA fits all flavors. For software development, we use it mainly for its agile scrum and Kanban development support. We realized that switching to Agile with JIRA was a winning combination to increase productivity, together with having more homogeneous teams and same mindset across team members.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
JIRA is being used in our organization to manage software development. It is used to easily manage the workload. It makes our developer's job easier as they can get all the information from the JIRA stories. JIRA is also used to check the status of the project and manage assignees.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Multiple teams within our organization use JIRA Software, including Product Content Strategy, Product Design, Product Education, Product Research, Front End, and Dashboard. Each team uses JIRA a bit differently, and each team's "project" is therefore set up a bit differently, but all of us follow a kanban agile structure. JIRA helps us stay on top of our tasks, view progress, and ensure all necessary work gets done on time.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use JIRA to manage multiple high-level projects within our company. It is a corporate-wide engagement with JIRA with several businesses that use it independently with a corporate administrator to manage the tool. We use it for very large projects, like Salesforce rollouts, as well as smaller projects like minor enhancements or bug fixes across all key software environments.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
JIRA is used by our Company to setup Epics and the associated Tasks that belong with the Epic. We then plan our Sprint (2 weeks) with Development tasks and track the progress of those tasks. If something happens that hinders the development of such task, we can easily put a block on that Task until the block can be removed (i.e. waiting on data cut from Agency). We can easily drop something into the backlog when needed.
August 09, 2019

Jira Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Jira to facilitate agile programming. We have boards that we use for different products and [it] allows us each to pick up tasks to work on and allows others to see what is happening across the group.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
JIRA has been a great replacement for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Not only is it easier to use, but it's highly customizable by our organization without the need of external consultants. Bugs or feature requests are created throughout the whole company and then triaged into actionable tasks. The filter feature on the system dashboard helps a lot in this context.
Shoba Sharat | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
JIRA is used in my organization for tracking issues from production support by our support team. For customer delivery and platform development teams, JIRA is used for bug tracking and to create stories and features for building solutions and the product. It is serving as a product management software, and for solution delivery teams it is our primary project management tool. We have scaled and customized JIRA to several teams in our organization, and it is a very cost-effective solution for tracking all business issues from product development to production support.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Project and change management with issue tracking is crucial for safety-critical software development in aerospace industries. JIRA provides many of the project management and agile process needs with a lot of features such as sprint boards, dashboards, filters, and reports. You can customize our own workflows and boards according to your own needs. Kanban boards and sprint boards are especially useful for big team projects.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We're using Jira as a tool to be in control of our projects. We use it for tasks and much more. We use it across all of our organization and highly appreciate the options of integrating Jira with Bitbucket. It's important to stay agile and Jira does the job. We can use the software between departments - design, development, etc. Our project managers have the option to get a better idea of what we're doing and how much time we're using during the tasks.
Rafael Ebert | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use JIRA to manage/track projects across the whole organization. It is a well documented tool and helps our team members to keep up with the workload as well as generate KPIs to higher management and provide a better visibility on what needs to be done throughout the projects. I would say it is an essential tool.
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