Concise Review of Atlassian Jira

Atlassian JIRA was used to develop software in C++ on an Agile team using Scrum (iterative and incremental) development for a human critical medical device. During our sprint review and planning meeting we would, as a team, evaluate performance tracked with Atlassian JIRA and project new tasks based on the team's perspective of timing and difficulty level in the software. Members of the team would then commit to tasks based on their area of interest, expertise, or remaining time allotment projected in the next two week sprint. Atlassian JIRA provided visibility to the team through a simple interface which showed who was responsible for what, and its value was felt in its clarity for depicting a particular tasks overall scope which mitigated against duplication of results thus saving expensive development time for our customer.