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Jira vs Pivotal Tracker: What are the differences?
Developers describe Jira as "The #1 software development tool used by agile teams to plan, track, and release great software". Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster.. On the other hand, Pivotal Tracker is detailed as "Build better software, faster". Collaborative, lightweight agile project management tool, brought to you by the experts in agile software development.
Jira and Pivotal Tracker are primarily classified as "Issue Tracking" and "Agile Project Management" tools respectively.
"Powerful" is the primary reason why developers consider Jira over the competitors, whereas "Agile" was stated as the key factor in picking Pivotal Tracker.
reddit, Lyft, and Heroku are some of the popular companies that use Jira, whereas Pivotal Tracker is used by Zendesk, Movielala, and DeveloperTown. Jira has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2090 company stacks & 1470 developers stacks; compared to Pivotal Tracker, which is listed in 198 company stacks and 54 developer stacks.
Last time we shared there information about our decision about using YouTrack over Jira actually we found much better solution that our team have loved. Linear is a minimalistic issue tracker that integrates well with Sentry, GitHub, Slack and Figma which are our basic tools. I would like to recommend checking out Linear as a potential alternative to "heavy" issue trackers, maybe at enterprises that may not work but when we're a startup that works awesome!
YouTrack feels much more lightweight than Jira and additionally have all of features that Jira have, of course lacks at some analytics features, but it's more powerful at permission management and agile workflow. Additionally YouTrack have awesome integration with other JetBrains products such as incoming JetBrains Space and all other IDEs such as GoLand.
Over time, as our teams became bigger and projects became more complex, we started to take agile processes more seriously and wanted more advanced (by our standards) project management abilities, like burndown charts, velocity tracking, etc. We also wanted to handle a lot of content management tasks that were primarily done by non-technical teams but often touched engineering.
After using Pivotal Tracker and Wrike, JIRA ended up being the right choice for us. Its design was flexible enough to do engineering project management, content management and other tasks like product roadmapping effectively. It had all the bells and whistles we wanted (plus many more we never got around to using). Given that it is a flexible service that tries to do everything, it is ideal for a team that can 1) dedicate significant bandwidth to upfront setup and organization and 2) empower admins to establish and enforce best practices among team members.
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Pros of Jira
- Powerful306
- Flexible253
- Easy separation of projects148
- Run in the cloud113
- Code integration105
- Easy to use57
- Run on your own51
- Easy Workflow Configuration38
- Great customization38
- REST API26
- Great Agile Management tool11
- Integrates with virtually everything7
- Confluence6
- Sentry Issues Integration3
- Complicated2
Pros of Pivotal Tracker
- Agile73
- Easy to use58
- Nice UI51
- Scrum friendly37
- Simple estimation27
- Slack Integration22
- Velocity13
- Great support9
- Easy setup9
- It does the estimation better than we humans7
- Nice ios app3
- The right kind of simplicity2
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Cons of Jira
- Rather expensive8
- Large memory requirement5
- Slow2
- Cloud or Datacenter only1
Cons of Pivotal Tracker
- Can't seem to change the number of total points2