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
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 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.
“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
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.
“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?
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Marketplace with apps and integrationsOur Marketplace includes thousands of apps and integrations so you can customize Jira for your exact way of working | Atlassian
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Products tailored for a specific use caseWe offer versions of Jira for software, business, and IT teams | Atlassian
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Comprehensive agile reportingJira comes with over a dozen agile reports out of the box | Atlassian
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Flexible permissionsPick and mix between standardized ways of working across your org and giving teams the autonomy to design their own workflows | Atlassian
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Smart filtering and searchJira's filtering and search is backed by machine learning and JQL (Jira Query Language) | Atlassian
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Best practices playbookAtlassian has 45+ plays to help inspire your teams with agile best practices inside our products and beyond | Atlassian
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Top-down visibilityLadder up work across multiple teams into common goals | Atlassian
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Smart dev tool integrationsSee the status of work in your dev tools right where your teams plan and track work | Atlassian
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Delegated administrationEmpower teams you choose to administer their own projects so they can operate faster | Atlassian
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Enterprise admin capabilitiesEnsure a great end-user experience with enterprise admin capabilities like a sandbox environment and controlled releases | Atlassian
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Mobile appsJira comes with iOS and Android apps | Atlassian
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Board and backlogEnable teams to plan and track, and visualize their work on a board and backlog | Atlassian
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Custom workflowsIn Jira you can create workflows inspired by scrum, kanban, or anything in between | Atlassian
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Native roadmapsEvery team in Jira gets a roadmap to help plan the big picture | Atlassian
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Unlimited levels of hierarchyRoll work into bigger picture goals with unlimited levels of hierarchy inside Jira | Atlassian
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