Jira vs Todoist: Which is a better fit?

Jake D.: My name is Jake, my company is Uni. We are one to 10 people, and my score for Jira was a four. Before we were using Trello and we didn't like it as much as Jira, because it really only was good for task management, but the tickets and organizing complex projects weren't as strong on it. We also really liked the documentation and the ability to do other things in Jira that Trello didn't offer. So in general just as we grew and had more engineers to manage and more complex software projects to manage, Jira became a better fit for our company. I chose Jira first and foremost, because the devs at my company really liked it and had experience working on it. It also allowed us to manage a front-end and backend team more easily and collaborate with ease compared to the other products we were looking at. It was affordable for startups and also supported us scaling all the way up if we were to grow our org to be much larger. As I had used it in previous companies that were bigger enterprises and saw it used for everything from documentation to ticket management to product management and development, so it just made the most sense for our org as we grew and was very affordable. Getting started with Jira was pretty easy, it took us about a week. We had a designated project manager who went about kind of setting up every user and getting the board set up the way we needed. We had engineering leads trained in how to do ticketing and how to move tickets from beginning to end pretty quickly. I think a lot of people use Jira and have experience with it coming out of school or bootcamp, so it was a pretty easy switch for us. Coming over from Trello, we found it was pretty fast to recreate the tickets and our processes from that. I think my biggest recommendation is just making sure that the engineers really want it. I think that project managers, it really caters to and has a great amount of tools for documenting, doing product recs, doing task management, QA, all of that. But I think if the devs aren't comfortable using it for pointing, using it for work management, it kind of gets out of line or doesn't get set up in a proper way. So, asking your developers to make sure that that's the tool they want and making sure it's set up in a way that's optimal for them I think makes it a much smoother transition, and easier for the business leads and product leads to engage with as well.

Jonathan T.: Hi, I'm Jonathan. I'm the founder and owner of WalletWin, an e-learning company, and I give Todoist 5 stars out of 5. Before I started using Todoist, I was all over the place with my to-do lists. I was using paper and pen and losing them. I was using Evernote and then forgetting to check it. I was all over the place. And finally I found Todoist. I chose Todoist and have stuck with it because it's all over the place. I've got the app on my computer, on my phone, on my watch, so I always have my to-do list available. It's easy to use, easy to check things off, especially when I'm out and about and I can just call it up on the watch and check off my item. It was incredibly easy to get started with Todoist, downloaded the app, I think created my account, and then just got started creating my lists and my items. It was very easy to figure out. I think it's a pretty intuitive interface that makes organizing my tasks nice and easy. If you're checking out Todoist, I'd say just go for it, download it. They've got a very nice, generous, free tier, so give it a shot maybe for a week or two. See how you like it, how it fits into your workflow, and it might just be a winner.