How does Tenhaw compare to Jira for agile project management?

Jira is an excellent ticket tracker with deep customisation for agile workflows. Tenhaw goes beyond ticket tracking by connecting every piece of work to measurable business outcomes. Where Jira tells you how many stories shipped, Tenhaw tells you how much value they delivered. Tenhaw also includes Monte Carlo forecasting, 11 AI workers, and team health tracking - none of which exist natively in Jira.

Can Tenhaw import data from Jira?

Yes. Tenhaw provides forward-deployed product engineers who handle the full migration from Jira. Your project history, backlogs, workflows, and team data transfer with zero downtime. Most teams are fully migrated within two weeks, and your team continues working in Jira until the cutover.

Is Tenhaw a replacement for Jira or does it work alongside it?

Tenhaw is designed as a full replacement for Jira's delivery management capabilities. It covers backlog management, Kanban boards, and adds outcome tracking, probabilistic forecasting, AI workers, and team health on top. You won't need Jira once you're on Tenhaw.

What does Tenhaw do that Jira plugins can't?

While Jira's marketplace has plugins for forecasting, AI, and reporting, they create a fragmented experience with separate pricing, configurations, and data silos. Tenhaw provides all of this natively - Monte Carlo forecasting, 11 AI workers, value tracking, and team health - in a single, unified platform built for delivery intelligence from the ground up.

How much does Tenhaw cost compared to Jira?

Tenhaw starts at £100/month for the Starter plan, £300/month for Professional, and £1,000/month for Enterprise. When you factor in the Jira plugins most teams need for forecasting, reporting, and AI (which can easily add £50-200/user/month), Tenhaw is often comparable or cheaper - with significantly more capability out of the box.

Is Tenhaw suitable for large engineering teams currently using Jira?

Absolutely. Tenhaw's Enterprise plan is built for large organisations with multiple squads. It includes portfolio-level forecasting across teams, organisation-wide value tracking, SSO, RBAC, and forward-deployed engineers for migration. Teams of 200+ engineers are using Tenhaw to replace Jira without disruption.

Is Jira good for tracking delivery outcomes?

Jira tracks task completion and velocity but does not natively measure business outcomes or value delivered in monetary terms. Tenhaw focuses on outcome-driven backlogs and tracks value delivery in £/$, connecting engineering work to business results.

Can Jira do Monte Carlo forecasting?

Jira does not include Monte Carlo forecasting out of the box. Some marketplace plugins offer probabilistic forecasting, but they require separate configuration and licensing. Tenhaw has Monte Carlo forecasting built in as a core feature.

Why do teams move away from Jira?

Common reasons include over-complexity, slow performance at scale, excessive configuration overhead, and a focus on tracking activity rather than outcomes. Teams often look for tools that are faster, simpler, or better aligned with measuring delivery impact.

Does Jira have AI features?

Atlassian has added AI capabilities through Atlassian Intelligence, including summarisation and natural language queries. Tenhaw takes a different approach with 12 dedicated AI workers that actively assist with backlog management, forecasting, and delivery insights rather than surface-level automation.

How much does Jira cost per user?

Jira offers a free plan for up to 10 users. Paid plans start at around $7.75 per user per month for the Standard tier, with Premium at roughly $15.25 per user per month. Enterprise pricing is custom. Costs can increase significantly with marketplace plugin subscriptions.

Can Jira measure team health and wellbeing?

Jira does not have built-in team health tracking. Some teams use separate tools or manual check-ins alongside Jira. Tenhaw includes team health tracking as a core feature, giving leaders visibility into how sustainable their delivery pace is.

Tenhaw vs Jira

Jira tracks tickets. Tenhaw tracks outcomes.

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How does Tenhaw compare to Jira?

Jira is the most widely used issue tracker in software development, trusted by thousands of teams for ticket management and workflow customisation. But Jira was built to track activity - stories, sprints, velocity - not business outcomes. Tenhaw is built for delivery leaders who need to answer a different question: what value did we actually deliver, and when will we deliver more?

What Jira does well

We believe in honest comparisons. Here's where Jira genuinely excels:

Massive ecosystem with thousands of marketplace plugins
Deep customisation for complex enterprise workflows
Strong CI/CD integrations via the Atlassian suite
Widely adopted - most engineers already know it
Mature permission and scheme management

Tenhaw vs Jira: A detailed comparison

How the two platforms compare across the capabilities that matter most to delivery leaders.

Delivery Intelligence vs Ticket Tracking

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Tenhaw treats every piece of work as a unit of business value. Every story, spike, and experiment traces to a measurable outcome, so you can report on value delivered in pounds and dollars - not just story points completed. Your leadership team gets real-time visibility into whether engineering effort is translating into business impact.

Jira

Jira tracks tickets through workflow states. You can measure velocity, cycle time, and throughput, but there's no native concept of business value. Teams ship 47 stories in a sprint and have no way to tell leadership whether any of it mattered. Value tracking requires manual processes or third-party plugins.

Probabilistic Forecasting vs Gut Feel

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Tenhaw runs 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations on your live data to produce probabilistic delivery dates. Instead of asking "when will this be done?" every week, you get answers like "85% chance we ship by March 15." Forecasts update automatically as work progresses and conditions change.

Jira

Jira offers velocity charts and burndown charts, which show past performance but don't predict future delivery with statistical confidence. Forecasting typically relies on team estimates, which research shows are consistently optimistic. Plugins like Portfolio/Advanced Roadmaps add basic forecasting, but nothing probabilistic.

Built-in AI Workers vs Bolt-on AI

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Tenhaw ships with 12 purpose-built AI workers that handle story writing, backlog prioritisation, blocker detection, retrospective analysis, risk prediction, and more. They're embedded in the workflow from day one - not features you discover in a settings menu.

Jira

Jira has introduced Atlassian Intelligence, but AI features are limited to summarisation and basic suggestions. Most intelligent automation requires marketplace plugins, each with its own pricing, configuration, and data access concerns. There's no unified AI delivery intelligence layer.

Team Health & Psychological Safety

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Tenhaw tracks team health and psychological safety as first-class delivery metrics. Health trends are monitored automatically, with decline alerts before problems impact delivery. Research consistently shows that team health correlates directly with software delivery performance.

Jira

Jira has no concept of team health or psychological safety. Delivery performance is measured purely through throughput metrics. Teams can be burning out while velocity looks fine - you won't know until attrition starts. Health checks require separate tools and manual processes.

Feature-by-feature comparison

A comprehensive look at what each platform offers across delivery intelligence, AI, and project management.

Delivery Intelligence

Feature	Tenhaw	Jira
Outcome-driven backlogs
Value delivery tracking (£/$)
Monte Carlo forecasting
Risk prediction (AI)
Team health tracking

AI & Automation

Feature	Tenhaw	Jira
AI story writing
AI backlog prioritisation
AI blocker detection
AI retrospective analysis
Daily AI priorities

Project Management

Feature	Tenhaw	Jira
Kanban boards
Sprint planning
Custom workflows
Marketplace plugins
Jira import/migration		N/A

Why delivery leaders switch from Jira to Tenhaw

Velocity tells you nothing about value

Jira measures how fast you move, not whether you're moving in the right direction. Teams ship hundreds of story points per sprint with no way to tell leadership whether any of it generated business impact.

Forecasting shouldn't require gut feel

Jira's burndown charts show the past, not the future. Tenhaw's Monte Carlo simulations give you statistically-backed delivery dates that update in real time as conditions change.

Team health is invisible until it's too late

Jira has no concept of psychological safety or wellness. By the time velocity drops, your best people are already interviewing elsewhere. Tenhaw catches health declines early.

AI should be embedded, not bolted on

Jira's AI features are limited and require plugin sprawl. Tenhaw's 11 AI workers are built into the delivery workflow from day one - writing stories, detecting risks, and prioritising work automatically.

Migration is handled for you

Tenhaw provides forward-deployed product engineers who migrate your Jira data with zero downtime. Your team keeps working while everything transfers seamlessly.

Switching from Jira is easier than you think

Every Tenhaw customer gets a dedicated product engineer assigned to their account. Not a support agent. Not a chatbot. A real engineer who joins your calls, migrates your data, and ensures you get value from day one.

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Your engineer migrates your data

Your assigned Tenhaw engineer imports your Jira projects, backlogs, and team data. They handle everything. Zero effort from your team.

Go live with zero downtime

Your team keeps working in Jira until the cutover. No disruption. No data loss. Your engineer stays on-call through the transition.

Full transparency

We're a startup. That's your advantage.

Tenhaw is a new company, and we treat every customer like our most important one - because you are. You get direct access to the founding team, a dedicated product engineer on your account, and a platform that evolves based on your feedback. No ticket queue. No 6-month feature request cycle. We build what you need, fast.

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See what delivery intelligence actually looks like

Real-time operational intelligence, AI insights, and team health - all in one screen. This is what Jiracan't show you.

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Team Health

4.2/5

Risk Exposure

Low

Quality

92%

Delivery Flow

On Track

Team Health Trends

Collaboration

Pace

Autonomy

Mission

Risks & Issues3 active

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API vendor contract renewal due

High impact

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CI pipeline intermittent failures

Med impact

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Design system migration blocked

Med impact

Delivery Flow

Sprint 1Sprint 12

Velocity trending up 12%

AI Insight

"Review stage is your bottleneck. Tickets spend 2.3x longer there than any other stage."

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