Jira Interactive Demo
Explore a demo of Jira, a project management tool developed by Atlassian that is designed to facilitate agile project management, bug tracking, and issue tracking.
What is Jira?
Jira is the world's leading project management tool for software development teams, created by Atlassian in 2002 and now used by over 300,000 organizations worldwide. Originally built as a bug tracker, Jira has evolved into a comprehensive platform for agile project management, including scrum, kanban, and scaled agile frameworks.
At its core, Jira organizes work into issues — tasks, bugs, stories, and epics — that move through configurable workflows. Sprints let scrum teams plan two-week cycles, track progress on boards, and review velocity over time. Roadmaps provide a cross-team view of planned work against timelines.
Jira integrates natively with the entire Atlassian suite (Confluence, Bitbucket, Trello) and has over 3,000 marketplace apps connecting it to GitHub, Slack, Figma, Zendesk, and virtually every tool in the development ecosystem. Jira Service Management (formerly Jira Service Desk) extends the platform to IT and business service teams.
How to get started with Jira
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Create a Jira project
Sign up at atlassian.com/jira and create a new project. Choose between Scrum (with sprints) or Kanban (continuous flow) based on your team's workflow. Free for up to 10 users.
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Set up your issue types and workflow
Define the issue types your team uses (story, bug, task, epic) and customize the workflow states (e.g. To Do → In Progress → In Review → Done) to match how work flows through your team.
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Create your backlog
Add issues to the backlog with descriptions, acceptance criteria, story point estimates, and priority labels. Organize issues into epics that group related work under a common theme.
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Plan and run a sprint
Drag issues from the backlog into a sprint, set the sprint goal, and click Start Sprint. Your board populates with cards that team members drag across columns as work progresses.
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Connect your development tools
Link Jira to your GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab repository so pull requests and commits automatically appear on the relevant Jira issue. Engineers can transition issues directly from commit messages.
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Who is Jira most useful for?
Software engineering teams running agile sprints who need a system of record for issues, pull requests, and deployment status. Use Supademo to build onboarding walkthroughs of how your Jira project is configured — showing new engineers how to find their tickets, update statuses, and log time without a live training session.
Product managers tracking feature development from idea through release. Pair Supademo with Jira by embedding interactive demos of new features in Jira epics, so engineers have direct product context alongside their implementation tickets.
QA and testing teams logging and tracking bugs with full reproduction context. Use Supademo to capture the exact steps to reproduce a bug as an interactive demo and attach it to the Jira issue — eliminating 'I can't reproduce it' back-and-forth.
Scrum masters and agile coaches who facilitate ceremonies and track team health. Share Supademo walkthroughs of sprint planning and retrospective processes to help newly formed teams adopt agile practices consistently.
Alternatives to Jira
Looking for alternatives to Jira?
Here are four tools worth evaluating depending on your needs.
Better for cross-functional projects involving non-engineering teams. Less powerful for developer workflows (no Git integration, sprint velocity) but more accessible for the whole company.
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More approachable for non-technical stakeholders. Weaker for agile development workflows but excellent for product roadmaps that need to be shared across the whole company.
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A modern, keyboard-first alternative built for speed. Cleaner UI and much faster than Jira. Growing fast among product-led tech companies that find Jira too heavy.
Built directly into GitHub — zero context switching for developer teams. Lacks Jira's advanced sprint planning, roadmapping, and reporting, but ideal for open source or small engineering teams.
FAQs on Jira
Commonly asked questions about Jira. Have more? Reach out and our team will be happy to help.
Is Jira free?
Yes. Jira Software has a free plan for up to 10 users with unlimited projects, boards, and backlog. Paid plans (Standard at $7.75/user/month) add advanced permissions, audit logs, and more storage.
What is the difference between Jira and Confluence?
Jira is for tracking and managing work (issues, sprints, bugs). Confluence is for documentation and knowledge sharing (specs, runbooks, meeting notes). The two integrate tightly — Jira issues link to Confluence pages and vice versa.
Can I use Jira for non-software projects?
Yes. Jira's flexibility makes it adaptable for marketing campaigns, HR processes, and business operations — not just engineering. Jira Work Management is specifically designed for business teams. That said, Jira's default setup is optimized for software development.
How does Jira integrate with GitHub?
With the GitHub for Jira integration, commits, pull requests, and branches that reference a Jira issue key (e.g. PROJ-123) automatically appear on the Jira issue. This gives product managers real-time visibility into development progress.
What is a Jira epic?
An epic is a large body of work that can be broken down into multiple stories or tasks. Epics typically represent a feature, initiative, or goal that spans multiple sprints. They appear on the roadmap and help teams track progress toward larger objectives.
Can Jira handle kanban workflows?
Yes. Jira's Kanban board supports continuous flow work without fixed sprints. You can set WIP limits, use swimlanes, and create custom columns to match your team's workflow. Kanban metrics like cycle time and throughput are built in.
Is Jira available on mobile?
Yes. The Jira mobile app (iOS and Android) lets you view and update issues, comment, log time, and check sprint progress from your phone. The experience is functional but most teams prefer the desktop app for detailed work.
What are Jira automation rules?
Jira automation lets you create 'if-then' rules that automatically perform actions — for example, auto-assigning bugs based on component, transitioning issues when a PR is merged, or notifying a Slack channel when a sprint starts. No code required.