Jira Add-Ons for Better Software Delivery

There’s no denying that Jira is one of the best project management solutions for software development. The platform is feature-rich and exceptionally flexible when it comes to bending it to meet your needs through custom scripts or integrations. 

That said, there’s always room for improvement, and the Atlassian Marketplace is one of the best places to start your Jira transformation. 

Workflow Management Add-Ons

These add-ons may not directly impact code quality, but they are excellent quality-of-life improvements. Look into them if you are missing some clarity and transparency in your workflows. 

Smart Checklist for Jira PRO 

Abandoned tasks and subtasks will become a problem sooner or later. The lack of visibility and awareness of who’s doing what at the moment is quite irritating. The absence of clearly described templates for routine tasks burdens everybody on the team.
Smart Checklist for Jira is an elegant tool for dealing with these challenges. The add-on allows you to use a markdown editor to create context-rich checklists or templates for common issue types (DoD, Acceptance Criteria, etc.).
Each checklist item can have a drop-down with more info, deadline, and assignees, making sure that all of your sub-tasks are collected neatly in the parent ticket. The progress bar will allow you to see how close the team is to close the ticket from both the issue and the board views.
Review score: 3.5
Price: There's a 30-day free trial. After that, the price starts at $0.50 per user per month.

Jira MISC Workflow Extensions 

This add-on brings in a set of custom conditions, post functions, and validators that allow you to go beyond vanilla Jira functionality when it comes to workflow automation. Built-in syntax checking is a great asset for building the functionality you need from scratch. It is intuitive enough that you don’t have to be a coder.
Review score: 3.5
Price: The app is free for teams of up to 10 users. The price starts at $1.31 per user per month for larger teams.

Tempo Planner - Resource and Capacity Planning 

This add-on is a good asset for planning your team’s time and workload. You can easily see the current status and progress and rely on custom reports to make data-driven plans or estimations.
Review score: 3
Price: The pricing starts at $1 per user per month.

Deployment Add-Ons

By definition, deployment is the process of bringing resources into effective action, and within the context of software delivery, these add-ons follow the definition to a T. 

GitHub for Jira

This add-on is a GitHub to Jira integration that gives developers a bit of breathing space as they can focus on delivering value rather than managing reports. The integration allows you to get pull requests, deployments, branches, builds, and commits straight into Jira. Additionally, you'll have some nice DevOps tools to check performance insights, such as deployment frequency or cycle time. That said, please note that the add-on is by no means perfect, and you’ll have to troubleshoot a bit from time to time.
Review score: 2.5
Price: Free

Jenkins for Jira (Official) 

The add-on allows users to send, build and deploy data from Jenkins into Jira automatically. Some of the handier features of the add-on are the ability to see all Jenkins deployments on a timeline and the ability to confirm when features have been shipped.
Review score: 4
Price: Free

Octopus Deploy for Jira 

As the DevOps tooling and deployment automation leader, Octopus offers a Jira integration that greatly improves visibility across the board. You’ll be able to see which issues contributed to the current release making the generation of release notes more fluid and intelligent. Plus, there’s no longer a need to jump between the apps.
Review score: 2.5
Price: Free
 

Azure DevOps Integration for Jira

This integration allows you to easily link commits from Azure DevOps to Jira Issue Ids, record time logs, assign commits to users, and transition Jira issues. Pull requests, and commits are easily visible, giving you the data to manage the team’s productivity more efficiently.
Review score: 3.5
Price: Starting at $0.80 per user per month.

Code Quality Add-Ons

Code quality add-ons are designed to make life easier for developers and QA engineers. 

QMetry Test Management for Jira

This add-on allows you to import-export test cases and supports automated authoring. Test case templates are also a great feature to have, as they remove the necessity of redoing your work. As for the Jira side of things, the addon offers cross-project traceability between stories, test cases, executions, and defects.
Review score: 4
Price: Starting at $1 per user per month.

Cucumber for Jira

This add-on helps you create custom documentation in order to push the test results from Cucumber or your CI tool of choice into Jira. Jira issues are linked to corresponding Git files, allowing you to create issues directly from Cucumber. Lastly, the embedded Gherkin editor gives your team more room to collaborate without swapping apps.
Review score: 3
Price: Starting at $0.53 per user per month.

Build Management Add-Ons

These add-ons are designed to help with assembling the work you’ve done into a viable software release. 

Version Manager for Jira 

This add-on offers a higher level of collaboration for development teams. People who are not Jira/Project admins can order, create, edit, and delete new versions of projects.
Review score: 3.5
Price: There is a free 30-day trial for teams of all sizes. After that, the prices start at $10 per 10 users per year.

REST API Browser for Jira 

This dev tool helps discover REST APIs available for Atlassian products such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello. The interface will offer easy access to APIs and descriptions of methods and endpoints.
Review score: 4
Price: Starting at $1 per user per month.

Did I miss anything? Feel free to mention the add-ons and integrations you use to improve your software delivery processes in the comments section.