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Assembla vs JIRA
March 06, 2025 | Author: Adam Levine
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Assembla workspaces allow to accelerate software teams. Ticketing and issue management, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Wiki, and other collaboration tools to accelerate development. Unite your team with a single activity stream view.
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JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. Combining a clean, fast interface for capturing and organising issues with customisable workflows, OpenSocial dashboards and a pluggable integration framework, JIRA is the perfect fit at the centre of your development team.
Assembla and JIRA are both project management tools, which is a fancy way of saying they help teams organize chaos into slightly more manageable chaos. They both support Agile, which, despite the name, does not involve parkour, but rather a series of sticky notes (real or digital) arranged in ways that make software development look far more orderly than it actually is. They also integrate with various other tools, because no one tool can ever be enough and they let teams assign roles, ensuring that someone is always responsible for things going wrong.
Assembla, founded in 2005 in the land of oversized portions and ambitious startups (the USA), is particularly fond of software developers and version control enthusiasts. It has a peculiar fondness for Subversion (SVN) and Git, ensuring that code remains both safe and completely incomprehensible to outsiders. It also boasts an alarming number of security features, compliance certifications and other serious-sounding things, making it a preferred choice for people who like their project management wrapped in an extra layer of impenetrable vault-like security.
JIRA, meanwhile, has been around since 2002, courtesy of the fine people at Atlassian in Australia, where presumably everything, including software bugs, is more dangerous. It has evolved beyond just software development, now catering to IT, business teams and anyone who enjoys configuring workflows for fun. With an app marketplace rivaling a small galaxy in size and deep ties to Confluence (another Atlassian invention that turns notes into a bureaucratic labyrinth), JIRA ensures that no task ever goes untracked—unless, of course, it’s accidentally marked as "Done" by someone who didn’t read the ticket properly.
See also: Top 10 Project Management software
Assembla, founded in 2005 in the land of oversized portions and ambitious startups (the USA), is particularly fond of software developers and version control enthusiasts. It has a peculiar fondness for Subversion (SVN) and Git, ensuring that code remains both safe and completely incomprehensible to outsiders. It also boasts an alarming number of security features, compliance certifications and other serious-sounding things, making it a preferred choice for people who like their project management wrapped in an extra layer of impenetrable vault-like security.
JIRA, meanwhile, has been around since 2002, courtesy of the fine people at Atlassian in Australia, where presumably everything, including software bugs, is more dangerous. It has evolved beyond just software development, now catering to IT, business teams and anyone who enjoys configuring workflows for fun. With an app marketplace rivaling a small galaxy in size and deep ties to Confluence (another Atlassian invention that turns notes into a bureaucratic labyrinth), JIRA ensures that no task ever goes untracked—unless, of course, it’s accidentally marked as "Done" by someone who didn’t read the ticket properly.
See also: Top 10 Project Management software
