# OKR Board for Jira & Confluence Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra

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OKR Board for Jira & Confluence

4.6 (17)

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Reviews of OKR Board for Jira & Confluence

Ease of use

4.4

Customer Service

4.9

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Ryan R.  
Global Education Manager  
Internet  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Org-wide OKR Roll-out using OKRBoard Plugin"

November 27, 2023

5.0

The customer service and support team, as well as others in the organization, had worked with me for an extended period of time, from the very beginning when I had first proposed the adoption of the product, all the way up until recently, when we were able to get all of the logistics coordinated and confirm the roll-out timeline and strategy. They have been nothing but helpful throughout and have walked me through every question or concern that I had, with patience and responsiveness. They set up cadence meetings with our organization to ensure that we were getting the most out of the product, and were patient with us as we brought into the discussion the members of the organization that were key to ensuring a successful global roll-out. Beyond this, it's just a top-tier, simplified, but perfectly balanced and customizable implementation of an OKR tracking platform. If I'm being honest, I think it's an absolute steal, when you compare it to the alternatives on the market, which - honestly - even if we budgeted enough to obtain those expensive alternatives... I'd probably have still chosen OKRBoard.

Pros

One of the biggest things that kept drawing us back to OKR Board, when considering our options, was that it intuitively made sense to everyone we showed it to. We wanted something that didn't introduce a brand new platform that would be difficult to integrate into our existing ecosystem, but also still offered a valuable means of managing OKR maintenance, tracking, and reporting, to facilitate the entire organization adopting an OKR-based system of measuring and striving for success. OKR Board was clear as the best contender for this purpose, when considering all aspects: features, cost, and support/service.

Cons

The only area that we've noticed that we'd like to see a bit more improvement on is the amount of available reporting features. We'd like to see additional means of generating and presenting valuable reports for all levels of the organization. The dashboards and the ability to use JQL to query OKR items assists with this, but I believe that the product would benefit greatly by including some high-value, high-impact reports that can be generated and delivered as-is, or with customizations.

Alternatives considered

[OKR for Jira](https://www.capterra.com/p/240489/OKR-for-Jira/)[Atlas](https://www.capterra.com/p/10014349/Atlas/)[Smartsheet](https://www.capterra.com/p/79104/Smartsheet/)[Microsoft Viva](https://www.capterra.com/p/248310/Microsoft-Viva/)[Productboard](https://www.capterra.com/p/160651/productboard/)

Reason for choosing OKR Board for Jira & Confluence

When it came to hitting our integration, tracking, scoring, and usability needs, Oboard continuously hit all of them, while the others each had areas that lacked in these key components, in one way or another.

Review Source

Response from Oboard

February 13, 2024

Thank you for sharing your positive experience, Ryan! Our team is committed to going the extra mile for our customers, and we’re glad to hear that it made a difference for you.

JR

Jeffrey R.  
Senior Agile Coach  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Mostly Intuitive, but..."

March 23, 2023

5.0

So far, our overall experience has been VERY positive. We were able to get up and running immediately; however, it is easy to use it in a way that is not necessarily the intended design...and not know it. I was getting values that didn't make sense so I searched their Confluence pages for my issue. Eventually I had to open a support ticket. The support team was AMAZING! They were patient and provided screenshots to detail how I should have set our organization up. Now that the changes are in place, I am seeing the expected values and I'm looking forward to training our teams on how to use the tool.

Pros

The UX is very nice, and the feature set is pretty much what we currently need. Once we get settled, I'm sure we'll use more features that it offers - like the Roadmap feature. Getting started was incredibly easy! You can find the status of your OKRs in multiple places. You can nest Objectives and you can apply weights to your OKRs...that's HUGE for us!! Finally, this tool is the ONLY one that we trialed that has a Jira Dashboard Gadget...THANK YOU!

Cons

Mainly three things:1. The General Dashboard pretty useless. You want to click the summary tiles and drill down into the data, but you cannot. Instead, you need to use the Performance Report to really see what you want. Again, however, the UX makes you think you can click the summary tiles on the Performance Report...but you cannot and you have to use the clickable links in the data set below the tiles to get into the data.2. When you get started, there is nothing that clearly defines how you should use Groups. We thought we could use them to show the overall percent-complete of all OKRs if we assigned a departmental group to every OKR. As it turns out, this tool was designed to use a departmental Objective to accomplish this need. But there was nothing that clearly showed you how to do that...or why it was necessary.3. The Confluence page for support didn't help me with any of the questions I had. For example, if you search for "How to use Groups", none of the returns are helpful. Likewise, searching for "Reports" or "Reporting" will provide you with no help. So, the Confluence page could use a lot of work.

Reason for choosing OKR Board for Jira & Confluence

Ease of use, Feature set for our needs, and time reduction over our previous tool (Excel).

Switched from

[Microsoft Excel](https://www.capterra.com/p/176574/Excel/)

We wanted something that integrated directly with Jira. Excel was very powerful for us; however, we had to create hyperlinks to the stories we used for our Key Results. If anything changed, then the overhead to correct it in all locations became frustrating.

Review Source

Response from Oboard

March 24, 2023

Hi Jeffrey, thank you for your valuable feedback! We are glad you are happy with OKR Board for Jira and that it satisfies most of your needs. You are right, our product documentation needs work, so we are creating an extensive knowledge base for our clients now. Best regards, Oboard Team

EB

Enrique B.  
Product Manager  
Internet  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "It is very hard to use guys"

April 18, 2023

3.0

Our whole company was forced to start using it and it was extremely painful to coordinate with all teams to get there.

Pros

The alignment view makes it easy to navigate through objectives

Cons

It is super difficult to manage, from an UX perspective, moving objectives around is cumbersome. Difficult to find the right parent once looking, it is slow when searching, it does not support proper comments, it generally takes a lot of work to maintain.

Review Source

Response from Oboard

April 19, 2023

Hi Enrique, thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We're sorry to hear that you find the app hard to use. We would like to discuss your concerns further, so please expect an email from us shortly to address the issues you mentioned. Julia

JH

James H.  
CTO  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "OKR Board for Jira Cloud seamlessly integrates with our workflows"

December 6, 2023

5.0

OKR Board for Jira Cloud seamlessly integrates with our workflow, turning Jira into a goal-setting powerhouse. The automatic progress tracking and intuitive visuals keep everyone aligned and motivated. Seeing company, group, and individual OKRs side-by-side fosters transparency and accountability. We've ditched external tools and haven't looked back. OKR Board is a game-changer for our company's focus and success. We were first introduced to this app years ago when we went looking to implement OKRs on our Data Center instance. Our leadership and team members were able to get started with very little training.

Pros

OKR Board for Jira is an overall great app that allows our teams to treat OKR's as their own entities vs nested as a Jira issue within the ecosystem. Not all of our KR's warrant a Jira issue and this app allows for that flexibility.

Cons

The only thing that we least like is being about to set a negative objective for KRs. We had to rewrite a couple of our KR's as greater than 10% vs less than 90%.

Alternatives considered

[OKR for Jira](https://www.capterra.com/p/240489/OKR-for-Jira/)

Reason for choosing OKR Board for Jira & Confluence

We have had a history with working with OKR Board and the feature set is more in line with our goals.

Switched from

[Microsoft Excel](https://www.capterra.com/p/176574/Excel/)

We needed better tracking and collaboration on our OKRs.

Review Source

Response from Oboard

February 13, 2024

Hi James, we appreciate your review and are thrilled to hear that OKR Board for Jira became a game-changer for you and your company. Thank you for choosing us! Cheers, Oboard Team

GV

Gabriela V.  
Alliances and Channel Manager  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great choice to integrate with Jira"

January 29, 2024

5.0

It is a great add-on to have to create and control all objetives and key results for any type of company.

Pros

It is a very intuitive add-on, it allows you to create objectives underneath objectives with their own key result. Being in a company with a big objective ladder due to the areas, it gave us the freedom to create as many as needed to represent all the different areas and teams.

Cons

When we create lots of sub-levels the value does not add up into the main objective.

Alternatives considered

[Weekdone](https://www.capterra.com/p/165423/Weekdone/)[Asana](https://www.capterra.com/p/184581/Asana-PM/)[Productboard](https://www.capterra.com/p/160651/productboard/)

Reason for choosing OKR Board for Jira & Confluence

It was the best choice for our Jira instance, the integrations and the features it aligned up with our existing proccesses.

Review Source

Response from Oboard

February 15, 2024

Hi Gabriela, We greatly appreciate your feedback. Understanding when OKR Board for Jira proves beneficial to you and where it could improve is invaluable to us. Thank you for sharing your insights!

KD

Kutlu D.  
Info-Sec Strategy & Compliance Manager  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Useful for our framework"

April 18, 2023

5.0

We are solving our strategic framework and seeing our gaps and trying to focus that we could missed.

Pros

We implement our strategy framework into it and start using from the first date. It is very beneficial to be able to see the our framework from high level to deepest KPI. Employees can easily see whatever information they want to see within the scope of their responsibilities.

Cons

Some performance problems: slowdowns after using for a certain period of time. (30 mins average) We believe this is because of about the browser cache.

Alternatives considered

[Twiser](https://www.capterra.com/p/249848/Wokr/)

Review Source

Response from Oboard

April 19, 2023

Hi Kutlu, we appreciate your review and are thrilled to hear that you enjoyed OKR Board for Jira. Thank you for choosing us! Julia

Claudia N.  
Agile Coach  
Information Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "The missing link for an agile strategy, managed with JIRA"

July 4, 2023

5.0

After working with OKRs for two years on the management level, we started bringing the concept to more and more teams with the help of OKR Board for JIRA. We made sure to set up only few levels and few goals in order to create focus and aligment. Theat requirens a lot of communication between the teams and the levels. The board and it's options to filter the relevant information while still showing how they align is very useful for that.

Pros

1.) The alignment view allows to visualize which OKRs (e.g., on team level) contribute to OKRs on the company level. Progress on the lower levels automatically shows on the higher levels if definied as such. 2.) Teams can share OKRs by contributing with individual KRs each pointing to the same objective. That enhances the strategy alinment throughout the whole organization.3.) OKR can be linked to tasks in JIRA. That helps to monitor if your everyday work really contributes to your goals.

Cons

The new options for custom dashboards in the app are quite cool, but currently they can not yet be shared with other users. We use the confluence-add on to monitor filtered sets of OKRS in shared dashboards for each team until that's the case.

Review Source

Response from Oboard

February 13, 2024

We appreciate your kind words, Claudia. Thank you for taking the time and share your experience with OKR Board for Jira! As for the Custom Dashboards cons you've mentioned - we've updated this feature and now it's available for sharing, export (.pdf), and as a macro for OKR Board for Confluence. Cheers, Oboard Team

Joris V.  
Product Dvelopment Manager  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Nice tool for setting up and monitoring your OKR."

April 6, 2023

5.0

OKR Board made it easier to set up and follow up on our OKR.

Pros

I like the revamped GUI. It's easy to get an overview of how your team's OKR are progressing. The GUI works well.Nice integration with existing Jira tickets.

Cons

GUI updates are a tad slow. I (still) miss a bulk update function, for instance update the due dates for 100 OKRs all at once, or after copying an OKR from one team member to someone else, change all assignees at once. These operations are very time-consuming.Also, when using a Jira ticket as a KR, the grade can be 0 or 100%, there is no space for partial progress.

Review Source

Response from Oboard

April 12, 2023

Hi Joris, thank you very much for your feedback! In case, you need to change Jira issue grade manually we have a couple of workarounds described in this knowledge base note - https://oboard.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OBPFJ/pages/896860161/How+to+change+Jira+issue+grade+manually Alternatively, you can always reach out to support@oboard.io and we will help you.

MB

Markus B.  
Senior Product Manager  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Great tool with some chances to optimise usability"

May 3, 2023

5.0

Happy user/admin, will continue to use it. Would be great if you could work on the usability, especially the part about managing all things in one tool and avoid having to open more tabs. Many of us don't get that right away.

Pros

\+ Easy to use+ Runs smoothly+ Easy to explain

Cons

\- Integration of tasks (issues) below key results is tricky. It is necessary to do many clicks to get from the OKR board to the task and move it to next column/step in the process. Would be better if everything would be managed in one view, not a new tab for each task- from day 1 all indicators are red; naturally you're not going to fulfill all objectives right away; teams are confused that their key results lack behind. Should look less critical- The overview gets cluttered real fast when opening company objectives, team objectives, key results and initiatives. We are a small team but the view is impossible to keep track off when opening everything. We use filters but a bit more order would be great

Review Source

Response from Oboard

May 10, 2023

Markus, thank you for taking the time to leave a review! We carefully read all the pros and cons you wrote and would like to offer you some workarounds for the inconvenience you experienced. Someone from our support team will contact you soon =) Best regards, Julia

Dmytro Y.  
Partner, Organisational Coach  
Management Consulting  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Integration to daily work"

April 27, 2023

5.0

Pros

I like the ease of use, the design and the way you can link Objectives and Key Results and Jira issues. I use it in my team, but also I always recommend it to our clients who are using Jira and would like to streamline OKR tracking and evaluation, and have great transparency.

Cons

There are minor improvements that can be done to multiple linkage, and what is great is that Oboard team is getting in touch and trying to implement changes.

Review Source

Response from Oboard

May 8, 2023

Your positive review means the world to us! Thank you for choosing our app and for taking the time to share your feedback with others.

VA

Valerie A.  
Business Unit Manager  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "User friendly tool for monitoring our OKR."

April 19, 2023

5.0

Pros

OKR Board helps us to visualize our objectives and we can follow up their progress easily. Low effort needed and easy UX. We use it on different levels within the company.

Cons

We don't have a negative experience with OBoard.

Review Source

Response from Oboard

May 8, 2023

We appreciate your kind words about our app and are so glad to hear that it's meeting your needs. Thank you for sharing your positive experience!

MR

Michael R.  
Collaboration Lead  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Make your company more efficient"

December 7, 2023

5.0

Pros

The handling is pretty intuitiv. The management of KPI is easy.

Cons

It's a little bit expensive. The interaction with Jira could be more intensiv.

Alternatives considered

[Microsoft 365](https://www.capterra.com/p/227157/Microsoft-365/)

Review Source

Response from Oboard

February 13, 2024

We appreciate your kind words and valuable feedback, Michael. Thank you for choosing OKR Board for Jira!

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Agile Coach  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great tool for OKRs"

April 27, 2023

5.0

Pros

\- the tool is very well connected with OKRs Framework- insightful dashboards- nice UI/UX experience

Cons

There are no significant downsides.

Review Source

Response from Oboard

May 8, 2023

Thank you very much for your review! We are glad to hear that our app is meeting your needs =)

IG

Isaac G.  
Product Team Lead  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Great in creating alignment between Objectives, Key results, and initiatives in Jira"

April 24, 2023

4.0

Pros

It's easy to use and implement, and provides alignment with goals to R&D stakeholders. Also, once implementing timelines, the gantt view really helps.

Cons

Filters can be improved, as if you select timeline H1, you don't see items marked with only Q1. Reporting would be great, for example, to see pies and charts based on labels provided.

Reason for choosing OKR Board for Jira & Confluence

It seemed like the one easiest to use and most fitting to our requirements

Review Source

Response from Oboard

May 8, 2023

Isaac, thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. From what we understand, you refer to the Alignment view, which indeed shows the whole OKR tree - parents and children together. If you need only the filtered OKRs to be shown you can switch to the List view. You can always search for answers on our helpdesk or reach out to support@oboard.io. Best regards, Julia

AG

Alejandro G.  
Software Engineer  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "OKRs"

April 6, 2023

3.0

In general, we find it suitable enough for our needs, but particular customizations are tricky.

Pros

We use it to track our company's objectives per quarter. The tool allows us to hierarchically define and track all our most important goals.

Cons

We have found it very confusing to use (UI/UX) and customize.

Review Source

Response from Oboard

April 12, 2023

Hi Alejandro, thank you for your feedback. It is crucial for us to know when OKR Board for Jira is helpful for you and when it can perform better. If you have trouble customizing the board for your needs, please ping us at support@oboard.io and we will offer a solution or a workaround. Cheers, Julia

VM

Vaheeda M.  
Workforce management  
Internet  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "OKR board review-overall great user experience "

April 4, 2023

5.0

Good experience

Pros

User friendly and easy to navigate and understand

Cons

cannot save default filters if you are not admin

Review Source

Response from Oboard

April 6, 2023

Hi Vaheeda, this is Julia with Oboard. We really appreciate your positive feedback and are glad, that OKR Board for Jira brings value to you and your company. Regarding the filters - we are working now to add more options when working with filters, like saving or exporting the filter view into a pdf. Stay tuned for new updates coming soon 😊

YB

Youns B.  
Intern  
Automotive  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Good product , happy user"

January 30, 2024

4.0

Very happywoth the work done by \[sensitive content hidden\], as I could book a meeting with them.

Pros

I'm absolutely delighted with the application! The assistance provided by \[sensitive content hidden\] has been invaluable, and I'm thrilled with the continuous improvement of the app. The overall experience has exceeded my expectations. Thank you for your dedication to enhancing user satisfaction.

Cons

It needs more costumization and implementmore features, but they are working on it!

Review Source

Response from Oboard

February 15, 2024

Hi Youns, We truly appreciate your insightful feedback and kind words about our customer success efforts. Thank you for choosing OKR Board for Jira!

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