The answer is yes, it can. However, Jira is best suited to teams and managers who may be doing waterfall now but want to transition to a more agile way of working in the future. As it happens, that’s what most teams and managers these days want, particularly as the global shift to remote working is forcing organizations to become more agile.
Portfolio for Jira is explicitly agile and does not support waterfall PM at all. You can absolutely use Jira for waterfall PM; it’s very flexible and handles waterfall easily. You may want to use some add-ons to provide visualization though. Depending on what you need, the recommendation changes.
Why should you do all your planning in Jira?
The seven reasons are to do all your planning in Jira are; You can do everything in Jira that you can in traditional planning tools. Planning in Jira means you’re in the same place as development and likely support teams. Requirement management and planning are more tightly integrated.
This begs the inquiry “What are the core features of Jira?”
One way to think about this is as you can see above all the foundational features of Jira are available. Plus a context on this task’s role in the WBS, dependency management and also with Tempo timesheets are as well fully integrated. Anyone from the team can be assigned and there are plenty of resource management features.
Also, how much does it cost to use Jira?
We discovered given most organizations already have Jira, the pricing for this add-on is incredibly effective – literally a $1.50 per user to purchase for the first year and even less to renew. So what are you waiting for? Dump that old MS Project plan and start creating masterpiece real-time plans in Jira!
Can I have separate projects for each step of the waterfall model?
, active, oldest Votes 5 Wow, it is really hard to believe that someone is still using the Waterfall model Anyway I guess you can just have separate projects for each step of the model: So for example if your project is called X then you can have: X_Requirements X_Design X_Implementation X_Verification X_Maintenance as projects in JIRA.