When comparing Kanbanize vs JIRA, the Slant community recommends JIRA for most people. In the question“What are the best online Kanban boards?” JIRA is ranked 5th while Kanbanize is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose JIRA is:
It integrates well with a lot of other tools, including other products from the Atlassian suite. Plus there are a ton of plugins, including charting tools, screen capture, etc.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Process efficiency widget
This widget on the main dashboard can help you measure your process efficiency as a real metric of your team's success.
Pro Support for runtime policies
Runtime policies are automations that make manual recurring processes automatic on the Kanban board. For example; every friday make a card with title XX and deadline XX on board XX.
Pro Portfolio Kanban
The initiatives lane, automated status updates for projects and campaigns, cross-board work links and convenient work breakdown mechanism
Pro Integrations
E-mail integration serves great work, plus the software has integrations with Slack, Jira, GitHub and many others.
Pro Great support for flow analytics
Pro It is a useful tool to separate work by some characteristic, be it priority, functional area or anything else
Pro Lots of integrations and plugins
It integrates well with a lot of other tools, including other products from the Atlassian suite. Plus there are a ton of plugins, including charting tools, screen capture, etc.
Pro Backed by a trustable company
Jira is developed and maintained by Atlassian, which is not an unknown venture, especially for developers. Atlassian has a great number of other products used by million of users worldwide, including BitBucket, HipChat, Confluence and Stash.
Each of these products have hundreds of thousands of users who use them daily and this has allowed Atlassian to garner a lot of goodwill from the dev community.
Pro Very cheap for small teams
Pro Supports version-focused work-flows
JIRA is not a plain long list of tickets, but can be configured to be version-focused, so planning and understanding the progress in a software project becomes clear.
Pro Great reporting tools
Jira offers amazingly powerful reporting tools like activity stream, different graphs of opened and closed issues over time etc...
Cons
Con New releases often change the GUI largely
Sometimes the usage becomes worse, e.g. when creating a new ticket, you need to click the notification to keep it on the display.
Con Locks you inside its own ecosystem
If you use Jira you are pretty much locked inside their ecosystem. For example, if you want to add a tool to your project management stack (like a wiki) more often than not you will have to buy one of Atlassian's tools.
Con Client application support
No free client applications; IDE connector development was discontinued. Users are effectively locked into using web interface which requires context-switching.