{"id":24793,"date":"2020-11-23T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud\/?post_type=monday_reviews&p=24793"},"modified":"2025-09-11T08:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:13:22","slug":"the-ultimate-jira-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monday.com\/blog\/rnd\/the-ultimate-jira-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate Jira alternative for your team in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":24794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"pages\/cornerstone.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Read on to find the best Jira alternative in 2020 for your entire team's needs, and to sign up for a monday.com free trail, no credit card required!","monday_item_id":18009259602,"monday_board_id":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rnd"],"acf":{"sections":[{"acf_fc_layout":"hero_1","title":"The ultimate Jira alternative for your team in 2021","subtitle":"","background_image":{"ID":24794,"id":24794,"title":"Blog cover (5)","filename":"Blog-cover-5.png","filesize":199864,"url":"https:\/\/monday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Blog-cover-5.png","link":"https:\/\/monday.com\/blog\/rnd\/the-ultimate-jira-alternative\/attachment\/blog-cover-5-11\/","alt":"The ultimate Jira alternative for your team in 2021","author":"73","description":"","caption":"","name":"blog-cover-5-11","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":24793,"date":"2020-11-23 08:43:13","modified":"2020-11-23 08:43:28","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/monday.com\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2400,"height":1200,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/monday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Blog-cover-5-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/monday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Blog-cover-5-300x150.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/monday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Blog-cover-5-768x384.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/monday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Blog-cover-5-1024x512.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":512,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/monday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Blog-cover-5-1536x768.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/monday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Blog-cover-5-2048x1024.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1024}}},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_1","blocks":[{"main_heading":"","content_block":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","content":"
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monday reviews is our latest blog series where we provide the facts about different project management tools\u2014no BS and no hyperbole needed. Keep scrolling for our analysis and to learn more about all the project management tools out there. Enjoy! <\/i>????<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Try monday.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Picking the right software development or project management tool is a big decision, we of all people understand!<\/p>\n

Perhaps you\u2019ve tried Jira before and are looking for something bigger and better, or maybe you just want to make sure you\u2019re making the right decision before taking the plunge. We salute you, and are here to help you find the perfect solution for you and your team!<\/p>\n

First things first:<\/p>\n"}]},{"main_heading":"What is Jira?","content_block":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","content":"

Developed by software company Atlassian, Jira is intended for software teams to plan and track their projects using agile project management\u2014put simply, it\u2019s an Agile project management<\/a> tool.<\/p>\n

Since Jira was designed specifically for software teams, it mainly targets software developers, teams, and project<\/a> managers working on software-related products and projects, and its features and integrations reflect this target audience.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image_type":"normal","image":24745,"image_link":null}]},{"main_heading":"Jira features in 2021: software-focused, hard for non-technical teams to use","content_block":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","content":"

Small software development teams looking to use only the agile project management methodology<\/span><\/a> may find that Jira meets their needs, as Jira is catered for this very specific audience and offers Scrum and Kanban boards.<\/p>\n

Jira suits the advanced needs of agile teams well in R&D, as its integrations with popular development tools, like GitHub, are well thought out and robust.<\/p>\n

Jira offers integration options from its marketplace, including Gmail, ZenDesk, Figma, and also a monday.com integration<\/span><\/a>, but not nearly as many options as we think you deserve!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

That being said, many of Jira\u2019s integrations have an additional fee and are not very useful for those of us who aren\u2019t software developers.<\/p>\n

But because it is one of the cheaper project management tools out there, you get what you pay for in terms of views, automations, and other features that non-developer teams may find valuable. It is not as intuitive and more complex than other tools, like monday.com as a random example.<\/p>\n

Get started<\/a><\/p>\n"}]},{"main_heading":"Jira pricing: you get what you pay for","content_block":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","content":"