Item: Jira Align
Rating: 10
Author: Carlie McLaughlin

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Jira across our Product, Engineering, and Business Operations teams in order to coordinate projects and create product roadmaps. We use it for sprint planning and assigning tasks and tickets between our engineering team. We also use Jira for product support bugs and issues. Jira helps all our teams stay organized and aligned on different projects.

Pros and Cons

Product roadmapping
Assigning tasks
Sprint Planning

Story pointing
Story writing
Reporting and dashboards

Return on Investment

Reduce friction between product and engineering.
Better communication between off-shore teams.
Decreased bugs

Alternatives Considered

Basecamp

Jira is very easy to use and is very flexible. You can use Jira to easily fit your company's needs. It is perfect for Agile methodology and allows for easy communication between teams. Basecamp is more rigid and does not have as much road mapping or ticketing capabilities as Jira. Jira is also more visually appealing.

Key Insights

Do you think Jira Align delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Jira Align's feature set?

Yes

Did Jira Align live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Jira Align go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Jira Align again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Atlassian Confluence, Google Drive, Pendo.io

Likelihood to Recommend

Jira is ideal for product teams to align their teams and create product roadmaps. It is easy to pull tasks and projects from the backlog and have all items in one place so that they aren't forgotten. Jira is also very helpful for our engineering teams to assign technical tasks and assign story points to tickets so that they can create project estimates for product teams.

A great tool for product managers

Overall Satisfaction with Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft)