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December, 2022

Jira vs. Rally Software

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 Rally Software.

Jira is the #1 project management tool used by agile teams


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Jira has been the market leader in agile project management for 20+ years and continues to build tools that serve the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Manage Agile Boards

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.

“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


Scale your way of working

Grow your teams with structure and visibility without compromising flexibility and customization in Jira

Every organization needs software that can scale beyond a single team. Jira offers the flexibility to choose whether you standardize on a way of working across teams or give teams autonomy to design their own ways of working. Mix and match however your organization needs.

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“Atlassian solutions balance power and ease of use. There’s not many tools that do that well and continue to meet your needs as you grow.”

SKY FROSTENSON

Director of Program Management, VSCO


Roadmaps

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 Rally Software?

Features

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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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Products tailored for a specific use case

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

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Comprehensive agile reporting

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

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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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Smart filtering and search

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

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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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Top-down visibility

Ladder up work across multiple teams into common goals

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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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Delegated administration

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

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Enterprise admin capabilities

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

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Mobile apps

Jira comes with iOS and Android apps

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Board and backlog

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

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Custom workflows

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

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Native roadmaps

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

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Unlimited levels of hierarchy

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

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