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Jira Align vs Planview AgilePlace comparison

Atlassian and Planview are both solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category. Atlassian is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.8, while Planview is ranked #17. Atlassian holds a 1.4% mindshare in ALM, compared to Planview’s 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Planview users who would recommend it.
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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Planview AgilePlace and Jira Align are competitive tools in agile project management, each enhancing agility and improving workflow efficiency. Planview AgilePlace seems to have the upper hand in pricing structure, whereas Jira Align is noted for its comprehensive feature set.

Features: Planview AgilePlace is recognized for visual task management, workflow customization, and integration capabilities, making it suitable for organizations that value simplicity and flexibility. Jira Align focuses on strategic alignment with its advanced roadmapping and analytics features, accommodating large enterprises with its suite of tools for scaled agile frameworks.

Room for Improvement: Planview AgilePlace could improve by enhancing its analytic capabilities and expanding its feature set for managing complex projects. While its simplicity is a strength, more advanced reporting and strategic tools would benefit users. Jira Align could work on simplifying its deployment process and refining user interface elements to cater to less complex teams. Increasing flexibility in customization options would also enhance user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Planview AgilePlace offers a straightforward deployment with excellent customer service, ensuring an easy transition and continual support. Conversely, Jira Align's deployment is complex due to its rich features but provides robust support to guide through the process. The choice between simplicity and feature richness is a key influencer in deployment experiences.

Pricing and ROI: Planview AgilePlace is characterized by lower initial setup costs, providing quick ROI with essential agile features at a more affordable price point. In contrast, Jira Align, requiring a greater initial investment, offers significant long-term ROI through its advanced capabilities and strategic alignment advantages, particularly appealing to large-scale enterprises undergoing in-depth agile transformations.

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Categories and Ranking

Jira Align
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
9th
Ranking in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Value Stream Management Software (1st)
Planview AgilePlace
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
17th
Ranking in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools
11th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Jira Align is 1.4%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planview AgilePlace is 1.7%, down from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Tonia Spight-Sokoya - PeerSpot reviewer
User-friendly with good documentation and the ability to integrate with other third arty vendors
I am really focused on identity access management and getting access to the vendors. Right now, I'm setting up vendor access through Azure. You can do that or with the IAM. Sometimes we have to create several different types of access because we have vaulted databases. We have the Unix databases, I have MySQL, and we have Mongo, where I get access to those user classes or to the databases in the host group. Those are all different access scenario forms that I submit after I do the configuration in the form with the security team. I need clarity on the IAM. I'm not clear on PAM eighter. Is there a form that they have to submit to get access to the internal cyber-risk teams to get their access for people to be able to use the tool on the Confluence side? Do they have to send some kind of form to the operation's security or enterprise security? To be able to get the access for privileged access, do they need to be working on projects that have vaulted databases? I still need to figure out how that works. Other companies that are competitors of Jira and Confluence, are able to create their active directories for the vendors that don't come in internally. They only do access through the cloud and through third-party, two-factor identification. That's something I was wondering if that was already implemented in the packages, the package for Confluence. It would be nice to have that right in the solution.
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Gives us visibility into projects and enables users to leave comments on different projects
We use the submit feedback button pretty often. I encourage the teams to use that if they see anything that could be improved. But we've been really happy with how fast LeanKit improves. The biggest improvement would be the API and data connections and making the data more accessible or quicker to access. One of our team members has brought up actual-time tracking on a card as a potential improvement. They had an interest in knowing how long a specific card had been worked on by a specific user or somebody that was assigned to that card. But there's not really a way for them to start and stop a time that they were actually working on it, except for if we created a different lane and they dragged it into the lane and then stopped using it in the lane. They requested that there'd be some sort of timer function on each one of the tasks.
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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"I've had no issues with Align's stability."
"In our workflow, we utilize a dashboard. Our product development backbone relies on two-week sprints. At the beginning of each sprint, we conduct a planning meeting to discuss and challenge the backlogs. Throughout the sprint, we conduct daily sessions to review code, ensure alignment with coding standards, and address any issues. Once all tasks are completed, we proceed with the deployment process."
"I like the way the UI functions."
"The reporting structure is great."
"What I like about Jira is that I can easily keep tabs on the status of different issues and what the team is working on."
"Some of the most valuable features are the configurations and dashboards."
"I like Jira's structured project plan, with tasks and subtasks. Jira can use various external plugins. Third-party providers can add new features to the solution. If I need some functionality, I can usually find an app for it. They have thousands."
"The tool helps us to stick with the timeline and budget of our projects. It also helps me to identify dependencies and red flags and intervene wherever possible. I have found the key metrics tab also useful."
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"It makes work visible, so everybody knows where everything is. It uses Kanban, and that makes work visible."
"My team specifically uses our board for all of our Remedy tickets that come in. We had a card for every ticket that we get, and we're able to add the link to that specific ticket there.If I'm out of office, for example, and someone else needs to work a ticket or someone is being contacted to work on a ticket, I don't have to sign on it. Someone else can easily access that ticket because I put the link in there. It's nice. It has a lot of great functionality in there."
"The "Blocking" feature has helped our scrum masters track impediments and share them at the program level to stakeholders with accountability and detail so that they understand and the action items which can be noted easily."
"We use the board and card hierarchies in terms of sprints so that we can see if we have cross-functional teams that are working on the same projects together, especially when projects have dependencies. The parent-child relationship within cards is really nice so that we can see what kind of dependencies there are when we're trying to get projects finished."
"People found the ability to set up different lanes and the ability to see where they're within the progress most valuable. They can use different colored cards or sticky notes, and then they can separate out which cards belong to a department or the initiative they're working on. They can filter who's working on it, and I've got good feedback about that."
"Using the tool seems to save time versus trying to do things in a regular manner. It is highly collaborative; everybody can see things in one place. It is a highly functional, but pretty simple tool. That is hard to find: A tool that has a lot of functions, but is also simple."
"Every feature is valuable. LeanKit is a Kanban-based tool where you have a visual interface that you can use to create various cards and to create boards to house those cards. You can create a board for managing project work. You can create a board to do PI planning. It is pretty close to the agile way of doing business."
"I would say it's highly scalable. LeanKit can scale across the enterprise easily. Every business could probably find a use case for leveraging LeanKit."
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Cons

"Other companies that are competitors of Jira and Confluence, they are able to create their active directories for the vendors that don't come in internally."
"One of the biggest issues I found in the new version was once we clicked on one of the tasks that were specifically for our group and went to look at the other portfolios in other areas we had to browse all the way back to the beginning. If you click the back button, it would not work, it stayed the same place. Additionally, if you click on page B, but then you wanted to go back to page A it would not go back to page A. You would have to browse back to the portfolio and then find your group again and open it. This was the only issue that I had with it and I am not sure if it is a Jira issue or it was because of the way the site was laid out."
"Jira Align's setup process could be more straightforward, and they could make training and educational documentation more accessible."
"Jira Align's cost needs improvement."
"The tool's corporate pricing is expensive."
"I would like to see Jira Align merge and integrate better with Jira as a whole. A lot of the time, the data from Jira won't map very well into Jira Align."
"The framework could be better."
"The solution needs to improve its pricing. It also needs to provide an integrated view of how other tasks are to be tracked. It would be also useful to see the integration of Confluence, Teams, and Slack into the product. I want to be able to communicate directly with others while using the product. I am also not sure if the integration of third-party alternate workflow tools like SAP would be possible."
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"The ability to report on customizable fields and third-party extensions needs improvement. I'd like to see more of those being able to be used. I don't know how that works for Planview, but just getting a little bit more added there would be nice."
"We are a 750-employee company, so we got lucky that our board approved the kind of funding we needed for the solution. But, LeanKit probably needs to reduce its pricing."
"I do not know what it can do in the area of scrum. Maybe it has that functionality. I have never tried to set it up. You think of LeanKit from the perspective of Kanban. I don't know if there is a template for scrum, a scaled agile framework, or any of those scaling frameworks."
"Being able to track actual time on cards or sprints, instead of using just the planned start and stop date, would also be useful. I would like to see something like JIRA has with actual sprint starts and stops."
"Within the current features, if they can give some ability to show more icons on the card, it would be helpful. It would help us in showing more data on the cards."
"The biggest improvement would be the API and data connections and making the data more accessible or quicker to access. One of our team members has brought up actual-time tracking on a card as a potential improvement. They had an interest in knowing how long a specific card had been worked on by a specific user or somebody that was assigned to that card. But there's not really a way for them to start and stop a time that they were actually working on it, except for if we created a different lane and they dragged it into the lane and then stopped using it in the lane."
"It is a pretty good product. It is really hard to think of things that I'd want to be improved. Sometimes, we use it for project management lessons learned. So, we have three columns, such as Could be Improved, Keep Doing, and Works Really Well. It would be helpful if there was a template set up for something like that because we code different cards based on the category. For example, if something belongs to the Could be Improved category, we may have those cards as yellow, but then I have to change the color of them and put a header. It is not as smooth, but it still works fine. To be honest, I don't have a lot of complaints about it."
"They have a feature called Instant Coffee. It was in the beta phase. They released it from beta, and now, it is a legit thing. We were in the pilot here. I liked the idea of Instant Coffee, and I like how it is integrated, to some degree, with LeanKit, but I have two big rocks to throw at them on this. The first one is that Instant Coffee does not save your work very well in terms of saving it in formats that you can then go back and edit as Visio would. It leads to the next point, which is, we're not really clear on what they're trying to do with Instant Coffee. I feel that they're trying not to reinvent Visio, Miro, and other software programs out there that do mapping, visual diagrams, etc. Miro is fantastic in that regard. I gather they're not trying to reinvent Miro, but it sure would be nice if it had more aspects of Miro in it, such as being able to draw arrows and write on them on the top."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Jira Align's pricing is reasonable."
"Jira Align has price packages for different purposes."
"My company pays approximately 399 USD per month for the solution."
"The license for Jira Align is priced fairly."
"Jira Align was reasonably priced then, especially for a bundle license that accommodated around 50 monthly users."
"Jira Align is quite expensive for small-to-medium companies, but it's quite reasonable for larger ones."
"The software is very good, but the price is expensive. Our licensing costs are on a monthly basis, but there are no additional costs to the standard license fees."
"Jira Align is an expensive solution."
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"I don't know what it would be on its own. It was basically included with what we were already paying or using. So, it was a no-brainer. It wasn't like we had to sell the company on making a purchase or anything like that. There weren't any costs that came in after implementing it."
"I don't believe there are any costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
"As far as I understand, it is not an expensive application."
"In general, Planview's cost structure is reasonable. You get quite a lot of functionality for the license cost that you get."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Insurance Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
26%
Insurance Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

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Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Jira Align?
I joined the company because they had a large project, and as a startup company, they needed to scale up efficiently. My task was to review the current baseline, assess the team's capabilities, and...
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What needs improvement with Jira Align?
The platform's communication features could be more robust for better team integration.
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We use Jira Align for business strategies, collaboration, and reporting. The solution allows us to manage the various products and features delivered on that platform.
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Also Known As

AgileCraft
Planview LeanKit, LeanKit
 

Overview

Jira Align is a cloud-based agile planning tool designed to help enterprises visualize, manage, and carry out large-scale software and IT projects. Jira Align’s features are designed to align the activities of your company’s development team with the overall goals of the organization by helping you achieve the following results:

  • Connect and coordinate enterprise-level business teams.
  • Make your entire enterprise’s work visible to drive and improve business outcomes.
  • Improve product quality with a fully aligned organization.
  • Shorten delivery cycles by increasing operational efficiency.

With Jira Align’s integration with Jira Software, businesses can simplify governing large-scale software development efforts by translating their strategy and goals into the technical execution and delivery of work.

Jira Align uses the aggregated data from Jira Software to produce reports on every aspect of the development process. Product stakeholders are granted immediate visibility into the progress that has been made and can easily identify delays and their causes.

The solution also assists in budget planning by assigning expenses to various work items and giving management real-time insights into ongoing expenditures and performance against set budgets.

Jira Align Features

Some of the top features and benefits of using Jira Align include:

  • Strategy management: Jira Align provides a clear visualization of where your enterprise is holding via strategic snapshots. The snapshot helps guide teams throughout the product. With the snapshot in view, it becomes easier to see and track the goals your company wants to carry out.
  • Progress monitoring: View a progress bar that provides indication of the level of completeness of your projects. The interface is populated with live data, which assists with planning and execution reporting.
  • Reporting and metrics: Jira Align creates valuable insights using the aggregated data it collects, ensuring that changes are tracked across teams and results are made visible early on in the process. These metrics allow managers to quickly determine what actions need to be taken.
  • Scalability: Jira Align is designed to work within organizations with hundreds of technical staff members and it can scale to support tens of thousands of users.
  • Backlogs and workflows: Effectively manage your work utilizing backlogs and workflow boards.
  • Customizable dashboard: Lay out key data points to help management keep tabs on important items. Easily make decisions based on active live consolidated data along with forecasting, risk tracking reports, and more. To help lower risks, Jira Align provides you with a visualization of program cross dependencies. It also displays a comprehensive view of resource utilization across projects, and highlights inefficiencies so that they can be resolved quickly.

Reviews from Real Users

Jira Align stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its program-level planning options and its reporting capabilities.

A project manager at a consultancy notes, “I like how things can be sorted out, and it shows the different objectives one can do. You could also create a team view that would allow your team to see work outcomes. Jira Align also helps with the reporting, because we can export data to Excel or another format.”

Atlassian

Planview AgilePlace is a cloud-based solution designed to provide businesses with a continuous flow of work to help teams accelerate delivery times by visualizing their work with enterprise Kanban boards and lean metrics. Planview offers project managers the visibility, resource management, and real-time analytics necessary to help their teams reduce bottlenecks and dependencies and work more effectively. By using Kanban boards, teams are able to visually track and manage the flow of their work from the strategy level, through implementation up to end-product delivery.

Planview AgilePlace Benefits

Planview helps teams to smoothly implement their strategies by offering its users the following benefits:

  • Time and cost management: Planview AgilePlace software provides a single pane of glass for you to monitor your project’s timetables, financial budgets, and costs. AgilePlace provides insights on cost estimates and helps your team reduce the risk of overspending or missing deadlines.
  • Effective resource allocation: By displaying a real-time view into both your future demands and current processes, Planview AgilePlace software offers resource management capabilities that enable you to effectively prioritize, schedule, and optimize your resource utilization.
  • Project management: Collaborate with your team to plan, manage, and deliver any type of project, either traditional, agile, or hybrid, using Planview AgilePlace’s project management toolset. The management feature set includes scheduling, Gantt charts, lifecycle management, time tracking, and more tools to help enhance project planning and implementation.
  • Real-time data and insights: Gain visibility for better decision making and more effective team dynamics. Plainview AgilePlace's flexible and intuitive dashboards and out-of-the-box reporting give a clear picture of the status of your projects and resources. The solution’s interactive visualizations deliver real-time data and insights for your projects and can be viewed by department, program, portfolio, or project, to assist you in making informed decisions.
  • Simplified logging: Track times, expenditures, and resources to avoid data loss and to help align business practices and goals.
  • Share your projects across the globe: Planview’s cloud-based solutions allow teams to work together from any time at any place using Planview’s shared central dashboard.
  • Powerful integrations: Automate the flow of information between Planview AgilePlace and external applications by seamlessly integrating with third-party software. AgilePlace’s open API can also be used to configure connections to other software systems. AgilePlace easily integrates with tools such as:

    • Microsoft Azure DevOps
    • Zapier
    • Atlassian Jira Service Management
    • Atlassian Jira Software
    • Micro Focus ALM
    • Zendesk
    • Microsoft Power Automate
    • Micro Focus PPM

Reviews from Real Users

Planview AgilePlace stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its user-friendly management pane, the visibility that it provides for its users, and its agile management capabilities.

A manufacturing manager at a large manufacturing company writes, “Using the tool seems to save time versus trying to do things in a regular manner. It is highly collaborative; everybody can see things in one place. It is a highly functional, but pretty simple tool. That is hard to find: A tool that has a lot of functions, but is also simple.”

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