About Jira

With Jira, there's no shortage of ways to stay in the loop. Whether you prefer to receive updates via email, chat, or by checking in on your mobile device, Jira has you covered. At your desk or on the go with the new mobile interface, Jira helps your team get the job done.

Issues are everywhere: Tasks, ideas, and requests are hiding in documents, people's heads, and deep in your inbox. Use Jira to capture and organize your team's issues, prioritize and take action on what's important, and stay up to date with what's going on around you. Jira makes all of this easy, so your team can spend less time managing the work and more time building great software.

Work the way you want: Your process is at the heart of everything you do. Don't shoehorn your team's work into the default workflow defined by your project tracker. Jira has workflows to match your existing processes, that you can easily adapt as your team evolves. Use the tool that fits your team, don't change your team to fit your tool.

Productive, powerful planning: Teams that need to be effective and efficient choose Jira to help them capture, assign, and prioritize their work. Ensure that everyone on your team knows exactly what needs to be done when, then watch the job get done flawlessly. And when you add the power of agile to Jira– with the Jira Agile add-on – you can even plan agile sprints!

Collaborate easily: On any team, it's important that people can easily share information and reach out for help when they need it. JIRA's simple, intuitive interface allows you to collaborate with teammates and get the job done more efficiently. If you think that's awesome, you'll love it even more when you combine JIRA's @mentions and assignment features with the power of Confluence and HipChat.

Visibility at the speed of light: Watch the issues that are most important to you, monitor activity streams, and share information with powerful dashboards, wallboards, and more. With Jira, you'll always know what's going on.

Collect, service, and report: With Jira Service Desk, the Jira platform becomes a modern, flexible service desk experience that streamlines customer requests and boosts your IT team's efficiency.

Agile project management: These days, just keeping track of your work isn't enough – you've got to be agile. Jira Agile adds agile project management to the power of JIRA.


Key benefits of Jira

  • Agile at Scale
    Scrum and Kanban improve project success and deliver value iteratively. Jira and Jira Agile scale Agile across your organization. Jira also integrates with GitHub to link issues to commits.

  • Industry Leading Workflow Engine
    Don't let your issue tracking software dictate your process. With Jira's workflow engine you can easily build the process that fits your team.

  • Polished User Experience
    Create, update, and work through issues using a fast and intuitive web interface with lightning-quick keyboard shortcuts.

  • Flexible Dashboards
    Create a personalized view of Jira. Share dashboards to track project status, create custom reports, and monitor team wallboards.

  • Powerful Searching and Reporting
    Use Jira's Query Language (JQL) with simple autocomplete to build advanced queries. Create a personalized view of Jira and share dashboards to track project status, create custom reports, and monitor team progress with wallboards.

  • Deployment Options
    Simple Windows and Linux installers are available for an OnPremise solution, or you can get started hassle-free with JIRA OnDemand. Easily switch between OnPremise or OnDemand as your organization evolves.

  • Integrate with Everything
    Get more from Jira with flexible REST and Java APIs – plus over 600 plugins and add-ons in the Atlassian Marketplace– to connect with the applications and tools you use every day.

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    Luke
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    • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Best and most true to tradition agile project/product management tool around

    Reviewed on 2020-11-09

    I have a (probably unhealthy) love for Jira and would need a lot of convincing to switch. It's...

    I have a (probably unhealthy) love for Jira and would need a lot of convincing to switch. It's interface is genuinely enjoyable to use and it aligns perfectly with agile product management methodologies, natively and in conjunction with its plethora of add-ons.

    Pros

    Jira is an immensely powerful issue management tool. It's JQL language provides ultimate flexibility to satisfy the needs of all roles on a product/project team. It's easy to use (if agile concepts are familiar to you and semi-intuitive if they're not), easy to deploy (especially if you're using Jira Cloud) and easy to integrate with.

    Cons

    The pricing model for add-ons. You could have a 100 users registered to your Jira instance, have an add-on that is used by a small handful of power users, and still be paying a license fee for all 100 users. Very annoying!

    Alternatives Considered

    Trello, monday.com and Asana

    Reasons for Choosing Jira

    Basecamp was rudimentary and unable to effectively visualise our cross-company/cross-team workload.

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    Basecamp

    Reasons for Switching to Jira

    Jira was the most aligned with our internal development workflows and flexible enough to work for both technical and non-technical users.
    Brandon
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    • Industry: Consumer Services
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    A robust application that can be used for everything from task management to software...

    Reviewed on 2021-11-02

    We started using Jira for simple issue tracking for all issue types, from bugs and ideas to...

    We started using Jira for simple issue tracking for all issue types, from bugs and ideas to backlogged and in progress tickets. We have since expanded this to track our full development roadmap and to produce documentation within Confluence. We have also taken advantage of the integration with Gitlab and Sentry to help give us a more clear picture of what's going on, even when it isn't happening directly in Jira.

    Pros

    Jira has a weekly release schedule which means the product is always being improved or changed. This is usually a good thing, although I will admit that sometimes it isn't. Jira is also incredibly functional for a broad range of use cases, from managing a simple to-do list, team task tracking, process automation, to software development. They do a good job of making it user friendly and easy to onboard, especially since they started making drastic UI improvements a little over a year ago.

    Cons

    A consequence of being capable of so much is that it can be hard to configure initially. More specifically, which features you need and which can be disabled. There are a lot of great features but some just complicate the workflow, and it usually takes time to figure this out.

    Alternatives Considered

    Teamwork, Pivotal Tracker, Trello, Basecamp, Wrike and Asana

    Reasons for Switching to Jira

    Jira was either more user-friendly or offered a solution that was geared more towards software development than the other applications. I also like the direct integration with Confluence, even though Confluence itself can be annoying at times.
    Matt
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    • Industry: Design
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    A seasoned software product setting the precedent for project management.

    Reviewed on 2023-09-09

    Overall very please with Jira and how well it supports a solid development team. Once the platform...

    Overall very please with Jira and how well it supports a solid development team. Once the platform is configured correctly development flows run like clockwork.

    Pros

    The entire Atlassian ecosystem creates simplicity and ease of use across agile methodology through devops to deployment.

    Cons

    Minor nuances with onboarding and getting up to speed to configure Jira to maximize its potential.

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    Michael
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    • Industry: Financial Services Software
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
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    JIRA - The monolith everyone uses

    Reviewed on 2018-11-15

    We use JIRA to plan monolithic projects across our organization and communicate with teams in...

    We use JIRA to plan monolithic projects across our organization and communicate with teams in multiple time zones and regions. We have a tier 1 tool plugin that allows our tier 1 support to escalate tickets for tier 2 and that is where we perform our work. I work indirectly with our JIRA administrator and project managers to support them while they support the JIRA platform for our organization. I have worked with JIRA in numerous organizations and while I've given it a mediocre score overall, it is a useful and irreplaceable tool overall.

    Pros

    JIRA is an industry standard tool, due to this it's very well known and a colloquial metaphor for "tickets" in and of itself. JIRA is able to handle monolithic projects and the many related projects with regard to them.
    JIRA is very good at allowing and automatically building self-referencing tickets within it's comments and ticket parts, if you put a ticket title into a ticket it will automatically reference the actual ticket with a link. It is also very good at adding to existing tickets with related tasks, sub-tasks, and prioritization. JIRA also is considered in almost every third party tool with a massive volume of software that offers "JIRA plugins" considering it's high stature with the IT community.

    Cons

    JIRA is "the tool" but it's not "a good tool" for every project and company size. JIRA is like other commercial grade products that just aren't designed for simple day to day use. While it opens up nicely and begins to make tons of sense in larger projects, larger organizations, and larger teams it often doesn't show the same beauty with simple projects and day to day ticket tracking.

    Additionally, the JQL language is ridiculous follows in the foot steps of many other proprietary languages that are only great for constant users of JIRA. While that's the implied scenario because as mentioned JIRA is "the tool" it's not always the case. When my day is split 20 ways, I have little time to sit down and do more than plug in a JIRA ticket number to get to the issue to investigate, review, get sign off on a fix, and apply.

    JIRA is also having what appears to be a lot of difficulties this year staying online with their new data center providers. I don't remember ever having these issues prior to their most recent move.

    Reshma
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    • Industry: Computer Software
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Jira is my ultimate solution for efficient project management and issue tracking

    Reviewed on 2023-06-22

    Jira Software is a powerful and feature-rich project management tool with solid issue-tracking...

    Jira Software is a powerful and feature-rich project management tool with solid issue-tracking capabilities. It is well-suited for teams practicing Agile methodologies and offers extensive customizability and integration options.

    Pros

    1. Issue Tracking: Jira Software allow my team to create and track issues or tasks.2. Support Agile Methodologies: Jira Software supports Agile methodologies. It provides boards to visualize and manage work, backlogs to prioritize tasks, and sprints to plan and track iterative development cycles.3. Integration: Jira Software integrates with various tools and services commonly used in software development, such as source code repositories (e.g., GitHub, Bitbucket)These integrations enhance collaboration and streamline development processes.4. Reporting and Analytics: Jira Software provides built-in reports and metrics, and that helped me to track project progress, team performance, and issue resolution.5. Customizable Dashboards: Jira Software helped me by creating personalized dashboards to monitor key project metrics, track assigned issues, and view activity streams.

    Cons

    1. Complexity for beginners: Jira Software can be difficult for users who are new to the platform or project management in general. The extensive customization options and complex configuration settings may require a learning curve and additional training for some users to fully leverage its capabilities.2. Expensive: While Jira Software offers a free tier for small teams, the pricing can be quite steep as the team size and feature requirements increase. This can make it less accessible for small or budget-constrained organizations, especially when considering the additional costs of integrations and add-ons.

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    Jira offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$7.75/month
    • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
    • Free Trial: Available

    Jira Software offers flexible pricing. Small teams: $0 per user/month for up to 10 users Growing teams: $7 per user/month for 11 to 10,000 users

    Jira has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    Jira supports the following languages:

    Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, traditional Chinese

    Jira supports the following devices:

    Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

    Jira integrates with the following applications:

    Balsamiq, Bitbucket, Confluence, ConnectWise PSA, Dovico, EazyBI Cloud, Flowdock, Get Satisfaction, GitHub, Gliffy, Harvest, HipChat, Hubstaff, JIRA Service Management, Lucidchart, Microsoft Outlook, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Weekdone, Zendesk Suite, Zephyr Enterprise

    Jira offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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