Jira Work Management vs. Microsoft Lists

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Jira Work Management
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Jira Core is Atlassian's general purpose business and project management tool available to smaller companies or teams and designed to suit a variety of purposes (e.g. marketing planning, product roadmap, etc.). In Jira Core, Workflows define process and enable teams to track tasks. Jira Core Cloud instances also have boards that let users visualize workflows and drag and drop tasks from to-do to done. It is available on the cloud.
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Microsoft Lists
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Lists is an information tracking app in Microsoft 365 that enables users to work with anyone, anywhere. Users can configure lists to better organize events, issues, and assets.N/A
Pricing
Jira Work ManagementMicrosoft Lists
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Starter - Monthly
$7.53
per month per user
Premium - Monthly
$13.53
per month per user
Starter - Annually
$22,500
per year User tier: 201-300
Premium - Annually
$40,500
per year User tier: 201-300
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Jira Work ManagementMicrosoft Lists
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Jira Work Management
8.6
Ratings
12% above category average
Microsoft Lists
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Ratings
Task Management9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Jira Work Management
9.0
Ratings
18% above category average
Microsoft Lists
-
Ratings
Quotes/estimates9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Invoicing9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Jira Work ManagementMicrosoft Lists
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
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9.0
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Usability
8.0
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User Testimonials
Jira Work ManagementMicrosoft Lists
Likelihood to Recommend
Jira Work Management suits projects involving multiple teams, such as product development. In our case, the design, development, and QA teams use Jira to track tasks from ideation to deployment. Custom workflows and real-time updates ensure that all teams are on the same page, and the ability to link related tasks helps manage dependencies effectively.
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It's great for anything that needs to hold data and process it into automation. It's a bit limiting if you like multi-line text fields or rich text fields. They lose a bit of their capability to filter.
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Pros
  • Provide a roadmap of all epics
  • Provide a backlog in which you can see all the possible work to be done to create your sprint plan
  • Have all our projects within reach
  • Have a dashboard with editable columns to manage your work
  • Be able to filter by person
  • Be able to see past sprints
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  • great for capturing loads of data
  • great for manipulating and viewing the data many ways
  • strong integration with other M365 products and Power Automate
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Cons
  • More clarification on where to find useful tools and resources for new users.
  • Breakdown of Projects, Tasks, Sub-tasks, bugs is hard to follow and cannot be changed once created.
  • The ability to customize the dashboard/home page to fit the needs of individuals could use some work.
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  • It's definitely getting better but for the average user, there is still a fairly big learning curve if you want to do anything beyond the basics
  • It would be cool to get Microsoft List addons that could further enhance the capabilities within Lists itself
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Usability
As we are Atlassian users overall, this entire ecosystem is truly built from a 360 perspective. It becomes the one source of truth, and we can easily see where we are in our projects and where to emphasize focus in the upcoming period. There are some areas for minor improvements, but they are more a matter of preference rather than business necessity
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Alternatives Considered
Personally I would not choose Jira Work Management for a marketing team. However, the marketing team was enveloped into the Jira Work Management instance due to use by more technical teams.
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They are all different but can be used for the same things. They all have different benefits, and I use them except Airtable. Trello has the best automation capabilities natively built into the product of any product I've ever used. (I've personally built over 1,000 automations or more for clients on Trello.) ClickUp has the best flexibility to view data in very different ways and from different organisation levels (i.e. High level data through to detailed specific data across multiple departments or projetcs. Microsoft Lists is an excellent choice if you work in M365 already and you want a deeply integrated way to hold data and use it within M365
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Return on Investment
  • The impact has been positive to have a roadmap available of all the work and to be more aware of the time, effort, and people that will be involved, in order to make a better decision about how our investment will look based on our benefits.
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  • Massively positive, we have build a business that can scale with ease
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