2025 BairesDev
Developers' Choice Awards
Best Project Management & Collaboration Tool
And the award goes to…
Jira
Industry standard for software development with adoption across 80% of the Fortune 500.
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About the Awards
Our engineers chose Jira for its deep Atlassian ecosystem integration and mature agile workflows. They valued the traceability from epics and stories through to code commits and deployments, JQL queries that surface exactly the data they need across thousands of issues, and the extensive plugin ecosystem.
Developer Insights
Jira keeps our priorities visible and our workflow structured. It grows with the complexity of our projects instead of getting in the way. Everyone knows what matters and who owns what.
Jira + Confluence + Bitbucket integration makes tracking data pipelines and technical dependencies seamless for agile teams.
Honorable Mentions
Trello
Lightweight Kanban boards with minimal setup and native Atlassian integrations for Jira and Confluence.
Notion
Modular workspace combining docs, wikis, and project tracking through interconnected database blocks.
About our Voters.
Full-Time Engineers
Average Years of Experience
Annual Applications
We’re a distributed team of over 4,000 full-time, senior-level developers. Every year, over 2 million applications are reviewed to identify the top engineering talent who join BairesDev.
This gives us unparalleled technical coverage and depth. Our teams span over 100 technologies, and we’ve used that expertise across 1,400+ projects since 2009
For this award, votes in each category were cast by developers with direct, hands-on experience using these tools. These nominations came directly from senior practitioners building software at scale.
Badge & Media Zone
Winner 2025 Badge
Nominee 2025 Badge
Recognition for Simplicity 2025 Badge
Recognition for Knowledge Centralization 2025 Badge