Meet the Jira family:

Jira helps teams plan, assign, track, report, and manage work and brings teams together for everything from agile software development and customer support to start-ups and enterprises. 

Software teams build better with Jira Software, the #1 tool for agile teams. Deliver amazing service experiences across all teams from IT, Dev, Ops, and more with Jira Service Management. Business teams can unlock the power of agile and collaborate better with Jira Work Management. 

With templates and solutions crafted for every team and Jira as your common language - work moves fluently and transparently across your organization. 

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Plan, track, and manage your agile and software development projects in Jira. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and release great software.
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Connect Dev, IT Ops, and business teams. Quickly respond to change. Deliver exceptional service experiences.
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Jira Work Management makes it easy for business teams to collaborate, align, and deliver work, all in one place.

Feature Comparison

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Jira is a suite of agile work management solutions that powers collaboration across all teams from concept to customer, empowering you to do the best work of your life, together. Jira offers several products and deployment options that are purpose-built for Software, IT, Business, Ops teams, and more. Read on to see which is right for you.

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  • Backlog

  • Custom board filters

  • Custom quick filters

  • Epic filter

  • Swimlanes / grouping

  • Card colors

  • WIP limits

  • Multi status columns

  • Multiple boards per project

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  • Filter

  • Epic hierarchy

  • Column configuration

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  • Dependencies

  • Advanced plans (Premium only)

  • Display in advanced plans

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  • Default reports

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  • Versions

  • Components

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Jira Service Management is Atlassian’s service management solution for all teams. Jira Service Management is designed to help you unlock high-velocity teams by empowering every team to deliver great service fast,  bringing visibility to work, and accelerating the flow of work between development, IT, and business teams. 

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Forms:

  • Show or hide fields
  • Headings
  • Field validation
  • Tables
  • Rich formatting

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  • Tier
  • Change approvers
  • Responders
  • Stakeholders
  • Relationships

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Jira Work Management is a collaboration tool designed to help teams track all activities considered work. Work might include running projects, managing approval processes, performing daily and periodic tasks, creating documents, and a lot more. In Jira Work Management, your team gets a shared view of what needs to be done, what's in progress, and who's assigned to what.

check-2 Navigation:

  • Custom background colours

check-2 Boards:

  • Column collapse
  • Predefined adhoc filters
  • Card customization
  • Subtasks on card

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check-2 Dashboards:

  • Default reports
  • Summary dashboard

check-2 Fields:

  • Versions

  • Components

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check-2 Issue List:

  • Usability
  • Inline edit
  • Inline creation
  • Drag and drop
  • Grouping

check-2 Gantt / Timeline / Plans:

  • Dependencies

Who uses the Jira family? 

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  • Software developers
  • QA and testing
  • Project managers
  • Program managers
  • Product designer
  • Product owners
  • Scrum masters
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  • DevOps managers
  • IT operations managers
  • Support managers
  • IT Service desk agents
  • Enterprise Architect
  • Services owner
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  • Business users
  • Marketing
  • Operations
  • HR
  • Legal
  • Finance
  • IT

What is Jira used for?

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  • Agile teams
  • Bug tracking
  • Project management
  • Product management
  • Process management
  • Task management
  • Software development
  • Requirements & test case management
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  • ITSM
  • Service Desk
  • Enterprise Service Management
  • Service Request Management
  • Incident Management
  • Problem Management
  • Change Management
  • Asset Management
  • Customer Support
  • Ticketing Support

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  • Non-technical team projects
  • Workflow approvals
  • Task management

How does Jira licensing work?

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  • Licensed by user
  • All Jira Software users can access Jira Work Management features

Users have access to:

  • Software projects & features
  • Business projects & features
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  • Licensed by agent
  • Free and unlimited customers (users submitting requests)
  • All Jira Service Management agents can access Jira Work Management features

Users have access to:

  • Service management projects & features
  • Software projects & features
  • Business projects & features

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  • All Jira Software users can access Jira Work Management features.
  • Users have access to Business Projects & features (Dashboards, Reports, etc).

How is Jira Hosted?

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  • Cloud
  • Data Center
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  • Cloud
  • Data Center
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  • Cloud

How do I choose between Jira Software, Jira Service Management and Jira Work Management? 

 

The Short answer is: You don't need to!

There are many excellent products available from Atlassian. They occasionally overlap a bit, and some people may find the names a little confusing. Because of this, it could be challenging for beginners to navigate and distinguish between the tools. So let's clarify the situation.

The use of Jira by all teams throughout the organization has many advantages. Since tasks and tickets are only used in one place, it is simple to share status between teams and move tasks between projects in JWM, JSW, and JSM.

Jira Work Management is designed with useful views for non-technical teams because business teams operate differently and require different features from, for example, software developers.

Licensing is done by user. Jira Work Management users, Jira Service Management users and Jira Work Management Users can collaborate effectively in one system.

 

Know more about the difference between Jira Work management and Jira Software in our blog here! 

Jira Work Management and Jira Software are very similar. Here are the main differences: 

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Items vs Issues

Issue types are called Items in Jira Work Management and issues in Jira Software. You can move items/issues between the different products of Jira.

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Customize your project

You can configure your Jira Work Management project in your favorite color. There are 14 different colors to choose from. In Jira Software and Jira Service Management, the projects are all white.

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Use ready-made templates

In Jira Work Management you can choose to use pre-configured templates to set up the project, with workflow and issue types.

Organization insights

Built-in views for different purposes

Listing items in an Excel-like view and work on your daily work items in a board view. Jira Software boards include more features, like quick filters, card colours and swimlanes, but in Jira Work Management you can also plan for upcoming events in a calendar or viewing dependencies between items in a timeline view.

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Reports track status and not lead/cycle time

Reports in Jira Software are more connected to lead and cycle time, while Jira Work Management reports are more based on counting items to track status.

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Synchronous collaboration

Last but not least, with Jira Work Management’s collaborative mode functionality you can invite other users to work on the same project items at the same time. This is not possible in Jira Software.

Items vs Issues

Issue types are called Items in Jira Work Management and issues in Jira Software. You can move items/issues between the different products of Jira.

Change management
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Customize your project

You can configure your Jira Work Management project in your favorite color. There are 14 different colors to choose from. In Jira Software and Jira Service Management, the projects are all white.

Use ready-made templates

In Jira Work Management you can choose to use pre-configured templates to set up the project, with workflow and issue types.

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Organization insights

Built-in views for different purposes

Listing items in an Excel-like view and work on your daily work items in a board view. Jira Software boards include more features, like quick filters, card colours and swimlanes, but in Jira Work Management you can also plan for upcoming events in a calendar or viewing dependencies between items in a timeline view.

Reports track status and not lead/cycle time

Reports in Jira Software are more connected to lead and cycle time, while Jira Work Management reports are more based on counting items to track status.

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Open-comms

Synchronous collaboration

Last but not least, with Jira Work Management’s collaborative mode functionality you can invite other users to work on the same project items at the same time. This is not possible in Jira Software.

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