Jira is a project management tool for agile teams , developed by Atlassian. It is used for issue tracking and project management , and enables teams to plan, track, and release software. Jira also has REST APIs that provide access to resources via URI paths, which allows developers to interact with Jira programmatically and build apps or script interactions with Jira. In addition to Jira, Atlassian offers other team collaboration software like Confluence and Trello to help teams organize , discuss, and complete shared work .