Is Jira Align worth it?

Would you recommend Jira Align as a tool for product managers? Experienced product managers discuss the Jira onboarding process and alternatives.

This Slogging thread by Matt Jastremski and mark occurred in Product School's official #06_product_tools Slack channel and has been edited for readability.

Matt JastremskiJul 12, 2021, 2:16 AM

Does anyone use Jira Align? We're evaluating it but their demo environment is more of a video tour - very hard to get a clear picture of how it works.

markJul 12, 2021, 10:37 AM

I’d suggest also setting up a demo.

Matt JastremskiJul 12, 2021, 10:42 AM

That's what I'm saying. We did. They gave us a presentation and then gave us logins... but you can't actually do anything in their demo environment besides follow a guided tour. Can't add or edit records or navigate the tool. It's insane. We've tried a ton of different tools and none of them locks down their trial accounts like this. Super suspect.

markJul 12, 2021, 2:44 PM

Wow that's lame. Did you express that to them? Be like we want to use it as if we bought it. Sales people will do a lot to sell you 😉

Matt JastremskiJul 12, 2021, 4:41 PM

Yeah, no response yet!

markJul 12, 2021, 4:45 PM

Linear.app is amazing. It just doesn’t offer an export function which isn’t fun for SOC2

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