We use Jira at my job. It sucks because time management suck but other than that it is a decent tool for structuring the tasks in a project. It all depends on how your project management uses it. If they are trying to micromanage you and strangle you in red tape, Jira absolutely allows them to do so but if they are interesting in getting things done Jira is also good at that.
It can get a lot worse than Jira though. When my old job got bought up by some big fancy software firm we were switched from Jira to some Microsoft solution that was probably decent enough but it was annoyingly Microsoft-y and it was integrated with an absolutely cursed third party time tracking app whose buggy turn-of-the-milennium UI made timesheet red tape a daily nightmare. Switching jobs and going back to Jira (and a less anal project management culture) was a huge relief.
We use Jira at my job. It sucks because time management suck but other than that it is a decent tool for structuring the tasks in a project. It all depends on how your project management uses it. If they are trying to micromanage you and strangle you in red tape, Jira absolutely allows them to do so but if they are interesting in getting things done Jira is also good at that.
It can get a lot worse than Jira though. When my old job got bought up by some big fancy software firm we were switched from Jira to some Microsoft solution that was probably decent enough but it was annoyingly Microsoft-y and it was integrated with an absolutely cursed third party time tracking app whose buggy turn-of-the-milennium UI made timesheet red tape a daily nightmare. Switching jobs and going back to Jira (and a less anal project management culture) was a huge relief.