Jira is a flexible and powerful project management and issue tracking platform used by software teams to plan, track, and release great products.

Organise, track, and manage work across teams with custom workflows, agile boards, and powerful reporting.

Jira supports teams in planning and managing work with configurable workflows, issue types, boards, and real-time reporting. Teams can use scrum or kanban boards to visualise work items, plan releases, and monitor cycle times. With automation rules, integrations with tools like Confluence, GitHub, Slack, and analytics dashboards, Jira enables collaboration, operational efficiency, and transparency across cross-functional teams.

Core Features & Capabilities

Ideal for software development teams, product teams, and business units looking for structured project management, transparent issue tracking, and tools that support agile and DevOps practices.

• customisable agile boards (kanban, scrum)
• issue and bug tracking with prioritisation
• backlog and sprint planning tools
• automation rules to streamline workflows
• dashboards and reporting for performance insights

Why Teams Choose Jira

Create your workspace, define your project and workflow types, onboard your team, and start with either a kanban or scrum board. Prioritise backlog items, plan sprints or iterative cycles, and use dashboards to monitor progress. Add automation rules to reduce work friction, and connect Jira to other tools to centralise your team’s work ecosystem.

“Jira keeps our teams aligned and our work visible, giving us the structure and flexibility to ship faster and with confidence.”

Getting Started with Jira

By unifying agile planning, custom workflows, automation, and performance visibility, Jira helps teams stay organised, reduce bottlenecks, and deliver software and projects more predictably.