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December, 2022

Jira vs. Azure DevOps

Jira is built for every member of your software team to plan, track, release, and support great software with confidence. See how it stacks up against Azure DevOps.

Jira is the single source of truth for your entire development lifecycle


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Azure DevOps is a suite of software development tools. Jira helps teams manage software development, in whatever flavor of agile works best.

Toolchain

Give your developers the best of the best

Jira is the backbone of your Open DevOps workflow

With over 170+ DevOps add ons and 3rd party integrations, teams can unlock the extensibility of an open, diverse toolchain while keeping the ease and coordination of an all-in-one tool.

“Atlassian has changed the way [our] teams work and evolve. The products have especially helped the teams that are still growing their technical maturity. Departments that were struggling with technology and continuous improvement don’t now.”

CORNÉ DEN HOLLANDER

Product Owner, Air France-KLM


Manage your work with powerful agile boards

Jira is designed with agile best practices in mind

With dozens of templates, reports, and best practices, Jira makes it easy for agile teams to be successful within our products and beyond. Out-of-the-box scrum and kanban templates give your team full visibility into what’s next so you can continuously deliver maximum output in minimal cycle time.

Manage boards

“Engineers appreciated how Jira and Confluence simplified the product development lifecycle all the way from planning and design through engineering, testing, and customer support.”

Gary Chan

Head of IT Infrastructure and Employee Services, Zoom


Boards

Keep your teams and organization in sync

Plan work and track progress in a single view with roadmaps in Jira

Built-in roadmaps allow your team to create a timeline of your plans, update your priorities as they change, and communicate the status of work to your stakeholders. Try roadmaps for free in all versions.

“Jira has allowed a great deal of transparency across business and development teams – contributing to a product that's truly a collaborative effort every step of the way.”

JEANNICE ANGELA

Product Manager, Rent the Runway


Map your team’s unique way of working

Workflows in Jira power effective teamwork

Every team has its own definition of ‘Done’ and how to get there. Build custom workflows that better reflect real-life processes, while reducing friction and enabling faster delivery.

Custom Workflows

“Once leaders and engineers saw how they could use Jira to create custom workflows and share them across teams, along with Confluence for documentation and collaboration, they were confident Atlassian would meet their needs.”

Evan Lerer

Director of Engineering, Redfin

Why choose Jira over Azure DevOps?

Features

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Azure DevOps

Marketplace with apps and integrations

Our Marketplace includes thousands of apps and integrations so you can customize Jira for your exact way of working

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Azure DevOps

Products tailored for a specific use case

We offer versions of Jira for software, business and IT teams

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Azure DevOps

Comprehensive agile reporting

Jira comes with over a dozen agile reports out of the box

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Azure DevOps

Flexible permissions

Pick and mix between standardized ways of working across your org and giving teams the autonomy to design their own workflows

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Azure DevOps

Smart filtering and search

Jira's filtering and search is backed by machine learning and JQL (Jira Query Language)

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Azure DevOps

Best practices playbook

Atlassian has 45+ plays to help inspire your teams with agile best practices inside our products and beyond

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Azure DevOps

Top-down visibility

Ladder up work across multiple teams into common goals with Plans

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Azure DevOps

Smart dev tool integrations

See the status of work in your dev tools right where your teams plan and track work

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Azure DevOps

Delegated administration

Empower teams you choose to administer their own projects so they can operate faster

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Azure DevOps

Enterprise admin capabilities

Ensure a great end-user experience with enterprise admin capabilities like a sandbox environment and controlled releases

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Azure DevOps

Mobile apps

Jira comes with mobile iOS and Android apps

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Azure DevOps

Board and backlog

Enable teams to plan and track, and visualize their work on a board and backlog

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Azure DevOps

Custom workflows

In Jira you can create workflows inspired by scrum, kanban, or anything in between

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Azure DevOps

Native roadmaps

Every team in Jira gets a roadmap to help plan the big picture

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Azure DevOps

Unlimited levels of hierarchy

Roll work into bigger picture goals with unlimited levels of hierarchy inside Jira

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Azure DevOps

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