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December, 2022

Jira Software vs. Pivotal Tracker

Jira Software 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 Pivotal Tracker.

Jira Software is more than a project management tool


Jira Software logo

Jira Software fulfills the advanced needs of software teams and comes with the power and flexibility that agile teams need to ship value to customers faster.

Manage agile boards

Manage your work with powerful agile boards

Jira Software is designed with agile best practices in mind

With dozens of templates, reports, and best practices, Jira Software 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.

“Engineers appreciated how Jira Software 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


Keep your teams and organization in sync

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

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.

Advanced Roadmaps

“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


Toolchain

Give your developers the best of the best

Jira Software is the backbone if 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


Map your team’s unique way of working

Workflows in Jira Software 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 Software 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 Software over Pivotal Tracker?

Features

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Pivotal Tracker

Marketplace with apps and integrations

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

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

Products tailored for a specific use case

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

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

Comprehensive agile reporting

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

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

Flexible permissions

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

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

Smart filtering and search

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

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

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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Pivotal Tracker

Top-down visibility

Ladder up work across multiple teams into common goals

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

Smart dev tool integrations

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

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

Delegated administration

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

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

Enterprise admin capabilities

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

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

Mobile apps

Jira Software comes with mobile iOS and Android apps

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

Board and backlog

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

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

Custom workflows

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

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

Native roadmaps

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

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker

Unlimited levels of hierarchy

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

Atlassian

Pivotal Tracker