JIRA

Sometimes important email notifications get lost in the inbox mix. JIRA can keep you in the know of urgent events with SMS notifications.From a developers stand point Jira gives uses a quick and easy way to see an overview of the current agile sprint and move stories through the development pipeline. Questions like 'What am I supposed to do next?', 'What is currently being developed?', and 'When is this due?' are always clearly visible. From a Scrum Master's perspective, the ability to see what developers are doing and the ability to create rich customized workflows are both incredibly easy.

Managing individual permissions is a nuisance that can be avoided with role based security. JIRA falls short by not allowing admins the option to set this up.The dashboard landing page for Jira, without customization, is not very useful. Usually a user has to visit Jira then choose a board to view in order to get the information they seek.

Definitely spend the time to do a run through with someone who knows JIRA back and front, and make sure that there's a good system in place.There are plenty of integration usages and hooks that you can use with JIRA. As a software developer, there are useful hooks in that make the JIRA updates almost seamless with github, gitlab or Atlassian Stash - and it allows managers and project owners to see changes and added features without ever looking at our repository.