VersionOne vs JIRA Agile

Top 5 Reasons to Choose VersionOne

VersionOne is a recognized leader and visionary in Agile ALM and DevOps. Today more than 1,000 companies, including 33 of the Fortune 100, use our enterprise-class solutions to help scale their agile and DevOps initiatives faster, easier and smarter.

Built for Agile

Stop trying to patchwork an issue-tracking tool into an enterprise agile platform. VersionOne was designed specifically to support agile and lean software delivery processes. We stay true to agile – epics are epics, stories are stories, defects are defects, and tests are tests. Period.

Scales Out of the Box

Scale to hundreds of teams and thousands of team members with VersionOne. Skip the extensive tweaking, configuration, or expensive ongoing maintenance and administration. Everyone from executives, program, project, and product management to analysts, developers, and testers work together in one centralized system.

Powerful Reporting,
Metrics & Dashboards

Effortlessly view advanced reporting from the team level up with executive, portfolio, program, and team dashboards. Strategic theme performance scorecards and much more are easy to read with rich vivid graphics. See what you need for your role so you can make better decisions.

Support for SAFe^®

Save time and money with the most direct path to adopting the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Everything you need is built directly into VersionOne – Strategic themes, WSJF prioritization, PI planning, program and solution planning boards, plus DevOps visibility.

Integrated DevOps

Unify agile and DevOps with our integrated continuous delivery solution, VersionOne Continuum. By connecting fragmented DevOps tooling, processes and data into a single, centralized platform, teams have the real-time insight they need to improve delivery velocity, identify and eliminate bottlenecks, and lower deployment costs.

Why VersionOne is better
for scaling Agile than JIRA.


On-premise and SaaS deployment
Designed from ground up to support Agile and Lean
Agile planning and tracking
Basic portfolio planning
Built-in support for Scaled Agile Framework^® (SAFe^®)
Portfolio-level Kanban and Solution Planning boards
Portfolio budgeting and allocations
Interactive roadmapping
Executive management dashboards and scorecards
Custom report-designer
Built-in hierarchical organizational structure
Unlimited level product hierarchy
Acceptance and regression test tracking
Timesheets and approvals
Slack integration
Integrated DevOps
REST API
Expert Agile training and transformation coaching