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Worksection vs Jira: What system to choose

Work­sec­tion and Jira are pop­u­lar project man­age­ment ser­vices. They offer a wide range of tools, from Gantt charts to auto­mat­ed reports, that make team­work much more efficient. 

How­ev­er, the true poten­tial of the plat­forms is unlocked when they are cho­sen based on the indi­vid­ual needs of each team. For all their sim­i­lar­i­ties, each ser­vice has its own unique char­ac­ter­is­tics. For exam­ple, one plat­form may be ide­al for ser­vice and non-tech­ni­cal teams, while anoth­er may be ide­al for tech­ni­cal teams and sep­a­rate devel­op­ment departments.

Com­par­ing prod­ucts on your own always takes a lot of time. We have pre­pared a detailed review of Work­sec­tion and Jira to save you time. 

About Work­sec­tion and Jira

Work­sec­tion

Work­sec­tion is a Ukrain­ian online project man­age­ment ser­vice that has been sim­pli­fy­ing project man­age­ment and increas­ing team effi­cien­cy since 2008. More than 1,600 com­pa­nies and mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary teams are clients of the system.

Main tools: Task Man­ag­er, Time Track­er, Gantt Chart, Kan­ban, Reports, Cal­en­dar, Access Control.

Key fea­tures of the service:

  1. Hourly rate sup­port for ser­vice teams. Keep the work under con­trol with the built-in timer and report­ing sys­tem. Cal­cu­late your real prof­it from each project by ana­lyz­ing how much time the team spends on it. Hourly rate allows you to main­tain busi­ness trans­paren­cy and find unprof­itable processes.
  2. Min­i­mal­is­tic inter­face. One of Work­sec­tion’s goals is to make project man­age­ment tools under­stand­able for every­one. The sys­tem does not com­pli­cate the per­cep­tion of the ser­vice with unnec­es­sary ele­ments, ensur­ing ease of use.
  3. Cus­tomer focus. Sup­port at all stages of the imple­men­ta­tion process. Our sup­port team is avail­able 24 hours a day, with an aver­age response time of three min­utes. Our experts pro­vide qual­i­fied, indi­vid­u­al­ized advice, rather than gener­ic answers from AI chatbots. 

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Jira

Jira is a project man­age­ment sys­tem that has been on the mar­ket since 2002 and is the #1 ser­vice for man­ag­ing all phas­es of tech­ni­cal devel­op­ment. Jira has a wide range of spe­cial­ized tools for orga­niz­ing the work of tech­ni­cal teams.

Main tools: Back­logs, Sprints, Sto­ry Points, Kan­ban, Gantt Chart, Reports, Calendar.

Key fea­tures of the service:

  1. Tools for tech­ni­cal teams. Jira has all the nec­es­sary tools for tech­ni­cal project man­age­ment: back­logs, sprints, sto­ry points, bug con­trol. It sup­ports effec­tive plan­ning, track­ing, and con­trol of the entire soft­ware devel­op­ment cycle.
  2. Sup­port for Agile and DevOps. Jira lets you auto­mate test­ing process­es by sup­port­ing inte­gra­tion with CI/CD tools such as Jenk­ins, Bam­boo, and Travis CI. Flex­i­ble ser­vice con­fig­u­ra­tion enables you to coor­di­nate prod­uct releas­es by adjust­ing the sta­tus. Jira also sup­ports agile method­olo­gies such as Scrum and Kan­ban. This allows you to apply flex­i­ble man­age­ment practices.
  3. Cus­tomiza­tion. Exten­sive options for cus­tomiza­tion to meet spe­cif­ic busi­ness needs. Automa­tion of work­flows, cus­tom fields, and access to spe­cif­ic exten­sions for the most flex­i­ble use of the platform.

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Quick com­par­i­son

In order to save you time and resources, we have pre­pared a visu­al table that shows the most impor­tant dif­fer­ences between Work­sec­tion and Jira:


Who can use Work­sec­tion and Jira?

Work­sec­tion 

Work­sec­tion might be right for you, in case you are

  • A non-tech­ni­cal or hybrid team. Thanks to its intu­itive inter­face, even spe­cial­ists with­out project man­age­ment expe­ri­ence can work effec­tive­ly in Work­sec­tion. The ser­vice is ide­al for non-tech­ni­cal and hybrid teams where spe­cial­ists of dif­fer­ent pro­files work togeth­er: pro­gram­mers, mar­keters, sales man­agers, etc.
  • Ser­vice busi­ness. Timers and reports are the main tools to con­trol the mar­gin of ser­vice busi­ness­es. Thanks to Work­sec­tion hourly rate sup­port, all it takes is a few clicks to start a timer for a spe­cif­ic task and the data is auto­mat­i­cal­ly trans­ferred to reports for fur­ther analysis.
  • A team of 10 to 100 peo­ple. The plat­form is ide­al for small and scal­able teams. Work­sec­tion is able to adapt to the pace of your growth thanks to its ver­sa­tile project struc­ture: mul­ti­ple lev­els of sub-tasks, sta­tus­es, tags, etc. 

You should con­sid­er an alter­na­tive to Work­sec­tion if

  • You have a tech­ni­cal team that requires Agile/DevOps and automa­tion. How­ev­er, Work­sec­tion focus­es on con­cise­ness, which is why it does­n’t include mul­ti-lev­el automa­tion and AI integration.
  • Your require­ments include exten­sive cus­tomiza­tion options and work with tem­plates. Com­pared to oth­er ser­vices, Work­sec­tion has lim­it­ed cus­tomiza­tion func­tion­al­i­ty and no ready-made templates.

Jira 

Jira is able to increase the potential

  • Large enter­pris­es and cor­po­ra­tions (100+ peo­ple in a team). Jira is suit­able for the orga­ni­za­tion of many users with com­plex work­flows. You can effec­tive­ly man­age and coor­di­nate the work of many teams and depart­ments thanks to the flex­i­bil­i­ty and vari­abil­i­ty of the sys­tem structure.
  • Agile and DevOps teams. Jira inte­grates with DevOps tools. This helps auto­mate process­es and improve pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. It also enables teams to adapt to change and respond quick­ly to new require­ments by sup­port­ing agile method­olo­gies such as Scrum.
  • Cross-func­tion­al prod­uct teams. Jira tools let you eas­i­ly track progress, share infor­ma­tion, and resolve issues rapid­ly. The coor­di­na­tion of dif­fer­ent areas of work ensures the high­est qual­i­ty of the product.

You should con­sid­er anoth­er ser­vice if

  • You’re a dig­i­tal team or the own­er of a local cloth­ing brand and don’t need func­tion­al­i­ty to orga­nize devel­op­ment stages. Of course, Jira has exten­sive func­tion­al­i­ty, but not all teams need it. So, if you are a non-tech­ni­cal team, and you don’t see the point of over­pay­ing for fea­tures that you are not going to use, you should look at ser­vice analogues.
  • You want a sim­ple and straight­for­ward sys­tem that does­n’t require sig­nif­i­cant team resources for onboard­ing. For most users, the num­ber of Jira tools is dif­fi­cult to han­dle, which makes it hard to get start­ed quickly.

Why should you choose Worksection?

Rea­son #1: Hourly rate support

Work­sec­tion is suit­able for teams that run client projects and want to con­trol their time and mon­ey. The hourly rate for­mat requires trans­paren­cy. Work­sec­tion pro­vides it with sev­er­al key aspects:

Work­sec­tion reports and time tracker
  1. Struc­ture. Each client in the sys­tem is a sep­a­rate project, where you can set tasks and split them into two lev­els of sub­tasks. In addi­tion, it is pos­si­ble to set pri­or­i­ties and dead­lines, which ensures con­sis­ten­cy in work planning.
  2. Time track­er. Thanks to the built-in time track­er, you can eas­i­ly con­trol time by com­par­ing planned indi­ca­tors with real ones. It helps you to know exact­ly how much time was spent on each task.
  3. Reports. Work­sec­tion pro­vides an oppor­tu­ni­ty to ana­lyze the team’s work­load and com­pare it with the results obtained from col­lab­o­ra­tion. Real-time ana­lyt­ics of project data helps to opti­mize work and increase its efficiency.

As a result, you get:

  • The actu­al amount of time spent on the project. By doc­u­ment­ing the resources spent using time track­ing tools, you can make informed finan­cial deci­sions in favor of more prof­itable projects.
  • The abil­i­ty to elim­i­nate unprof­itable projects or opti­mize process­es with­in them. Ana­lyz­ing the results of work with the account­abil­i­ty sys­tem, you can iden­ti­fy projects that do not bring the expect­ed prof­it or waste resources.

Rea­son #2: Price

We offer a full set of fea­tures for man­ag­ing projects of dif­fer­ent types and pro­files (Kan­ban, Gantt chart, reports, timers) at a much low­er price. We charge from $3.4 instead of $8.15 per user and don’t com­pro­mise on quality.

This is an ide­al solu­tion for small teams and star­tups that want to allo­cate their finan­cial resources wisely.

Rea­son #3: Pri­va­cy settings

You can eas­i­ly cus­tomize your work with :

Client

Add client teams to the sys­tem and restrict access to infor­ma­tion about peo­ple and indi­vid­ual tasks with­in the project.

Set­ting up the vis­i­bil­i­ty of a Work­sec­tion task

Team

The sys­tem allows you to cre­ate admin­is­tra­tive and user roles with dif­fer­ent permissions.

Work­sec­tion par­tic­i­pants’ permissions

For exam­ple, an employ­ee with the user” role can cre­ate, com­ment on, and view all tasks with­in an invit­ed project, which is ide­al for in-house staff. At the same time, a per­son with the guest” role has access only to those tasks for which they are an assignee or sub­scriber, which is ide­al for an out­sourced team.

Rea­son #4: User-friend­ly implementation

Work­sec­tion was designed with the needs of non-tech­ni­cal pro­fes­sion­als in mind. The plat­form inter­face isn’t clut­tered with unnec­es­sary tools and com­bines func­tion­al­i­ty with ease of use. This makes it easy to mas­ter the sys­tem, even for teams that are just start­ing to work sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly and have no pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence with project management.

The plat­form helps focus on core tasks, mak­ing the project man­age­ment process sim­ple and clear for any user. This approach allows new­com­ers to online man­age­ment ser­vices to quick­ly under­stand the set­tings and cre­ate their first project with­out sig­nif­i­cant complications. 

Rea­son #5: Car­ing support

If you encounter any prob­lems while using Work­sec­tion, our sup­port team is always ready to help. The sup­port team works sev­en days a week around the clock. The aver­age response time is three min­utes, which allows us to solve your prob­lems quickly.

You get advice from sys­tem experts who know all the specifics of the Work­sec­tion set­tings. This approach is way more effec­tive than tem­plate respons­es from an AI bot, as our experts pro­vide an indi­vid­u­al­ized approach to each request.

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