Jira Overview
What is 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.
Jira Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
Jira Software offers flexible pricing.
Small teams: Starts at $10/month for up to 10 users
Growing teams: $7 per user/month for 11-100 users
Jira Features
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Jira Reviews
Jira Reviews
Jira for bug tracking and project management
I highly recommend Jira for a bug tracking tool and especially for Agile software teams. For us it has really made a difference in terms of: team collaboration, Agile methodology adoption, decreased time to market of new projects/new features and on the overall teams' spirit. We have seen a wide adoption for the other departments as well, non software development.
Works great for Software Project Management, I wish the configurations were easier to set up.
We are overall very satisfied with the product as the user side of the things are very solid. The administration is quite complex and if you are doing it on your own, it will take a long time and a lot of hours reading their forums to get things right.
More then you will ever need / Tool to handle thousands of problems one by one
Enterprise Task Management
Jira is a strong, industry-standard project management and task tracking service that is flexible enough to allow different types of teams (software, legal, IT, etc.) to work on the same platform.
It's a great but expensive solution
Due is the company who pays the software, the overall is fine, it helps a lot on the development and release process.
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Jira for bug tracking and project management
Pros
We used several bug tracking tools in the past but Jira is by far the best one. What I like most:
- user friendly interface, provides a nice user experience
- Agile SCRUM/Kanban support out of the box
- extremely configurable on almost everything
- extendable through custom scripting, either built-in or via addons
- very collaborative
- there are thousands of addons in the marketplace; you can even write your own
Cons
Being so flexible to be configured, the learning curve for admins is a little steep.
The price is based on the number of users and if you experience wide user adoption in a big company, you end up in paying more for upgrading to the next tier, than if you would pay for that tier first time.
Works great for Software Project Management, I wish the configurations were easier to set up.
We are overall very satisfied with the product as the user side of the things are very solid. The administration is quite complex and if you are doing it on your own, it will take a long time and a lot of hours reading their forums to get things right.
Pros
The task tracking and overall reporting are pretty solid. If configured properly, you will not miss on any updates and can proactively resolve blockers.
Cons
The configuration. They are very complicated and you cannot expect a new user to get it right and that's why there are dedicate people who set up this. We did it on our own and it took us a couple of months to get things right.
More then you will ever need / Tool to handle thousands of problems one by one
Pros
*Functionality
The best feature of Jira is a huge number of integrations, massive amount of possibilities, statistics and tricks that you can you inside the platform.
There is an integrated tracking, kanbans, lists, sorting direct contact with chat (stride) and feature to work with git right from every task or issue.
* New UI
Recently Jira got an update, a new chat (Stride, instead of Hipchat) and a new UI for the tasks. I can see that company goes in the right direction to adopt all of it's powers.
*Customization
Jira, being confusing at first hides a lot of it's features inside most of which you can change and adjust to your business needs. It is a great solution for a big corporation with dozens of departments, hundreds of employees and thousands of issues and tasks daily. However, in all other cases Jira can be a nightmare at this point.
Cons
*Slow
Out off all CRM platforms and tools to handle tasks and issues Jira is the slowest by far. Is it initial problem or has it appeared after adopting so many technologies under one roof - I can't be sure. But one thing is clear - Jira is awfully slow.
*To many features
Yes, it is a disadvantage when it comes to Jira. When a new customer comes to Jira I believe, he is most definitely confused. Especially, if he/she tried ANYTHING else before. Of course, I see that company does a lot to make it easier and more comfortable, but as it is now, Jira is a terrible solution for fast adoption, scary for a small or middle sized team and most definitely not a great choice for personal use.
Jira is Huge. If you are huge - great features, customizing, different apps and plugins will help you solve a lot with Jira. If you are just starting or don't have that many tasks and issues and people in your company - you should probable check other options.
Enterprise Task Management
Jira is a strong, industry-standard project management and task tracking service that is flexible enough to allow different types of teams (software, legal, IT, etc.) to work on the same platform.
Pros
Jira has a strong SaaS-based offering that makes the administration and operation of the product simple and easy. The software has multiple options for viewing tasks (from project-task style to Kanban style) which allows different teams to be flexible and use different formats.
Cons
The difficulty of running the hosted version of the software with custom plugins is almost unacceptable for enterprise-grade software. The concept that enterprise project-management software requires dedicated IT assets to service and maintenance increases the overhead of the software to unacceptable levels. If a deployment requires a host, non-SaaS version of the software with custom plugins, reconsider.
It's a great but expensive solution
Due is the company who pays the software, the overall is fine, it helps a lot on the development and release process.
Pros
It give you a toon of facilities to work and organize your team and project tasks, issues and so on.
Also let you to track what is released and when.
Cons
Too expensive for more than 10 persons in the team.
Also is hard to understand how to use it the first times and some options are a bit hidden.
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Jira Pricing
Jira Pricing
Jira Software offers flexible pricing.
Small teams: Starts at $10/month for up to 10 users
Growing teams: $7 per user/month for 11-100 users
Jira Software offers flexible pricing.
Small teams: Starts at $10/month for up to 10 users
Growing teams: $7 per user/month for 11-100 users
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Jira Features
Jira Features
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Additional information for Jira
Additional information for Jira
Key features of Jira
- 1000's of Add-ons
- @mentions
- API
- API availability
- Action management
- Active directory integration
- Activity dashboard
- Activity tracking
- Agile development
- Agile reporting
- Assignment management
- Automatic notifications
- Burndown charts
- Burndown/burnup charts
- Categorizing
- Charting
- Code integration
- Collaboration tools
- Commenting
- Communication management
- Completion tracking
- Configurable workflow
- Cumulative flow diagrams
- Custom filters
- Custom reports
- Customizable scrum boards
- Customizable workflows
- Development tracking
- Dynamic workflow
- Estimating
- Filtered views
- Forecasting
- GitHub integration
- IT / software projects
- Issue management
- Issue tracking
- JIRA's query language (JQL)
- Kanban boards
- Mobile apps
- Monitoring
- OnDemand or hosted
- OpenSocial gadgets
- Planning tools
- Portfolio management
- Prioritizing
- Progress tracking
- Project time tracking
- Project workflow
- Projections
- Real time reporting
- Release management
- Reporting & statistics
- Roadmap planning
- Search functionality
- Service desk management
- Sprint planning
- Sprint reports
- Status reporting
- Team management
- Third party integration
- Traceability
- Velocity charts
- Version reports
- Visual timeline
Benefits
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.
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.
Create, update, and work through issues using a fast and intuitive web interface with lightning-quick keyboard shortcuts.
Create a personalized view of Jira. Share dashboards to track project status, create custom reports, and monitor team wallboards.
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.
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.
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.
Jira FAQs
Jira FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Jira.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Jira offer?
Jira offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$10.00/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Jira Software offers flexible pricing. Small teams: Starts at $10/month for up to 10 users Growing teams: $7 per user/month for 11-100 users
Q. What are the main features of Jira?
Jira offers the following features:
- 1000's of Add-ons
- @mentions
- API
- API availability
- Action management
- Active directory integration
- Activity dashboard
- Activity tracking
- Agile development
- Agile reporting
- Assignment management
- Automatic notifications
- Burndown charts
- Burndown/burnup charts
- Categorizing
- Charting
- Code integration
- Collaboration tools
- Commenting
- Communication management
- Completion tracking
- Configurable workflow
- Cumulative flow diagrams
- Custom filters
- Custom reports
- Customizable scrum boards
- Customizable workflows
- Development tracking
- Dynamic workflow
- Estimating
- Filtered views
- Forecasting
- GitHub integration
- IT / software projects
- Issue management
- Issue tracking
- JIRA's query language (JQL)
- Kanban boards
- Mobile apps
- Monitoring
- OnDemand or hosted
- OpenSocial gadgets
- Planning tools
- Portfolio management
- Prioritizing
- Progress tracking
- Project time tracking
- Project workflow
- Projections
- Real time reporting
- Release management
- Reporting & statistics
- Roadmap planning
- Search functionality
- Service desk management
- Sprint planning
- Sprint reports
- Status reporting
- Team management
- Third party integration
- Traceability
- Velocity charts
- Version reports
- Visual timeline
Q. Who are the typical users of Jira?
Jira has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Public Administrations, Non Profit, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Jira support?
Jira supports the following languages:
Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
Q. What type of pricing plans does Jira offer?
Jira has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
Q. Does Jira support mobile devices?
Jira supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
Q. What other apps does Jira integrate with?
Jira integrates with the following applications:
AppFusions, Get Satisfaction, LeanKit, Planview PPM Pro, SpiraTeam, Testuff, Usersnap, Workfront, Zendesk, time cockpit
Q. What level of support does Jira offer?
Jira offers the following support options:
FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
I highly recommend Jira for a bug tracking tool and especially for Agile software teams. For us it has really made a difference in terms of: team collaboration, Agile methodology adoption, decreased time to market of new projects/new features and on the overall teams' spirit. We have seen a wide adoption for the other departments as well, non software development.