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Has anyone used Jira for marketing project management?

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Alyssa Martelli communications & integrations| Flagger Force
My company is implementing Jira as its official project management tool. Historically, departments used their own project management software. Our team has used ClickUp for the past 2 years for our marketing, communications, and creative projects. We are looking for a consultant to help us migrate from ClickUp to Jira, develop an onboarding plan, and support training. Has anyone done this successfully and what has been your experience?
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Alyssa -

I always cringe when I hear that a company wants to make JIRA their primary PM tool, given that it originally started life as a defect tracking tool.

It does a semi-decent job as a work management tool but if you are looking for reasonable scheduling capabilities (i.e. a true Critical Path Methodology engine) or any kind of advanced financial planning and tracking, it is not ideal.

Kiron
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Naval Singh IIT Madras

I understand how the B2B software envrionment works where the users are different from the decision makers. As the decision has been taken to move from Clickup to Jira, I would suggest that you prepare an inventory of current and archived projects that you may need for daily work and reporting purposes respectively.
Next would be to identify tasks, lists and projects from Clickup and import/ create from scratch into Jira. Mapping to the issues, projects and other objects would need a bit of effort in the first attempt.
If the projects are very simple ones, then you can also export the project details as CSV from Clickup and try to import into Jira. While this would not be a one click solution, but it would save your time that you would otherwise have spent manually copying and pasting text and dates etc.



Also, as the previous poster replied, Jira could fall short in the long run.



Hope my current approach helps you to get started.

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