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Comparison

Jira shows you what happened. Performalise shows you what to do about it.

Jira tracks tasks. Performalise turns delivery data into coaching intelligence, predictability, and team health signals, turning your existing investment into a platform for continuous improvement.

+33%
More successful sprints
+45%
Stakeholder satisfaction
26K+
Team improvement ideas
±4-6w
Sprint predictability

Why teams outgrow Jira's built-in dashboards

Jira is exceptional at what it was built for: tracking tasks, managing workflows, and keeping the team synchronized on *what* they're building. But Jira doesn't answer the questions that really matter.

Not a Jira plugin, and not a replacement. Jira knows what someone typed; Performalise listens to what teams actually do, in standups, tickets, commits and deploys, and turns it into answers. AI coaching. Real-time team health. Predictability. Continuous improvement that compounds cycle after cycle.

How it's different

Dashboards observe. Performalise anticipates, then positions.

One team, one sprint, the same signal travelling left to right.

Observe
What actually happened?
Said vs did: PERF-214 called blocked in standup. The board still says in progress.
Unplanned work: PERF-230 added mid-sprint, tied to no sprint goal.

Observed from standups, tickets, commits and deploys. Nobody typed a status.

your dashboards stop here
Anticipate
What does it mean for what's ahead?
Goal confidence heading for 40–55% by sprint end.
Q3 release: 67% chance of slipping three weeks or more.

Read two ways: from this team's own behaviour, and from what is already heading its way, so the manager can position before it lands.

Position
Which outcome matters most right now?
Faster? Split the run-the-business work out of the sprint
Higher value? Hold scope, move the date
Higher predictability? Re-scope to protect the goal
The move

Park the unplanned work and re-anchor the sprint goal. Goal confidence rises from 40–55% to 65–75%.

You pick the outcome. Performalise shows the move, the trade-off, and who needs to know. Never a score, never a pre-selected answer.

That last column is what "Powered by choice" means: the manager chooses the outcome, the tool shows the move. See the full platform →

The detailed comparison

Feature-by-feature: Performalise vs Jira

Capability Jira Dashboards Performalise
AI coaching intelligence – ✓ Coaching 24/7
Sprint predictability forecasting Manual burndown charts ✓ ±4-6 weeks confidence
Team health & psychological safety – ✓ Team Voice, anonymous feedback
Cross-team portfolio visibility Limited, per-project ✓ Company Analytics
Product discovery & validation – ✓ 5-stage pipeline
Value intelligence / RICE scoring Requires plugins ✓ Built-in
Retrospective intelligence – ✓ AI-guided, tracks behaviour change
Agile event facilitation – ✓ AI-guided ceremonies
Peer recognition system – ✓ Kudos
Kaizen Engine – ✓ Flywheel with tracking
Integration with Jira Native ✓ Read-only connection, one input of many
Pricing From £7.75/user/month + plugins ✓ Per team, per month. See pricing →
Performalise + Jira = The complete platform. Your teams keep using Jira for task management exactly as today. Performalise connects via API and turns what you're already tracking into intelligence, coaching, and predictability.
Fit check

Who is Performalise not for?

We would rather tell you now than after a sprint. Performalise is not the right fit if:

  1. You want individual productivity scores. We measure patterns, not people. There are no per-person leaderboards.
  2. Your teams do not work in Jira, Azure DevOps, Linear or Asana. Those are the front doors today. Other trackers are also supported, just talk to us.
  3. You want a dashboard and no coach. The signal only becomes value when the AI Coach Hans or Lotte act on it inside the team. If nobody wants coaching, you would be paying for reports, which would be sad.
  4. You want velocity as a productivity target. Velocity is a planning signal for the team that owns it. We will not turn it into a KPI or compare it across teams.
  5. You measure success in output. Story points closed, tickets shipped, commits per week. We tie work to outcomes: usage, retention, OKR movement. If output is the scoreboard, the signal will keep disagreeing with it.
  6. You want the objectives to look fine. Every goal on the ladder carries its real confidence, read from what teams said and did this week. Leadership sees the threat early and is expected not to look away. A tool that colours things green for the meeting is a different tool.
  7. You want a date, not a range. Forecasts arrive as ranges (±4-6 weeks across a portfolio) with the confidence behind them. If a single promised date is required, we will disappoint you honestly rather than precisely.

If none of those apply, see it in action →

When to use each

Jira vs Performalise

They're not competing. They're complementary.

Jira is built for:

Task tracking and execution. The core of how agile teams work.

  • Sprint board management
  • Issue tracking and status
  • Developer workflows
  • Release planning
  • Team communication
  • Dependency management

Performalise is for:

Coaching intelligence and continuous improvement. The foundation of high-performing teams.

  • Coaching at scale
  • Delivery predictability
  • Team health signals
  • Executive visibility
  • Continuous improvement
  • Value validation

Best together:

Performalise amplifies Jira by turning your task data into human outcomes.

  • Reading Jira, plus your meetings, code and deploys
  • No data migration
  • Read-only integration
  • Complementary, not competitive
  • Your Jira stays the same
  • Reads your Jira, changes nothing
The impact

What Performalise changes

+33%
More successful sprints with predictable delivery
+45%
Improvement in stakeholder satisfaction
26K+
Ideas (single client)
±4-6w
Sprint predictability tightened from ±months
FAQs

Questions about comparing Performalise and Jira

Does Performalise replace Jira? ▼
No. Performalise complements Jira, it doesn't replace it. Performalise connects to Jira read-only and combines it with what teams actually say and do, in standups, commits and deploys, to produce coaching intelligence, team health signals, and predictability forecasts. You keep Jira for task management. Performalise adds the intelligence that helps teams work better together and ship with more confidence. Your Jira workflows stay exactly the same.
How does Performalise integrate with Jira? ▼
Performalise connects to Jira via read-only API integration. We analyze sprint velocity, issue metadata, team capacity, and delivery patterns from Jira, then surface insights about team health, delivery predictability, and areas for improvement. Your data stays in Jira. Setup takes minutes with no data migration required. There's nothing new to maintain, Performalise handles all the analysis automatically, cycle after cycle.
What does Performalise show that Jira doesn't? ▼
Jira shows what teams did. Performalise shows whether they're working well together and what coaching will improve outcomes. Specifically: AI-powered team health signals and psychological safety feedback, delivery forecasting with confidence intervals, peer recognition (Kudos), 5-stage product discovery validation, behaviour change tracking, and continuous improvement insights. Jira answers "what happened?" Performalise answers "what should we do about it?"
How long does it take to set up Performalise? ▼
Performalise connects to Jira in minutes and begins delivering insights within the first sprint. Just authorize the API integration and you're live. There's no data migration, no complex configuration, and no process redesign required. Teams immediately start seeing AI coaching briefs, health signals, and improvement recommendations. You're not replacing anything. Performalise reads what you already have and gives you the signal your dashboards can't.
What's the pricing difference between Performalise and Jira? ▼
Jira starts at £7.75 per user per month (with typical additional costs for advanced plugins). Performalise is priced per team. Performalise is priced per team, billed annually, on our Perform plan, which includes unlimited AI coaching, delivery intelligence, and continuous improvement features across the entire team. Current plans are on the pricing page. Unlike Jira's per-user model, Performalise pricing doesn't scale with headcount, it's flat per team, meaning you pay the same whether you have 5 team members or 8.
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