Jira is a project management and issue tracking software developed by Atlassian. It is widely used by agile development teams to plan, track, and manage software development projects. Jira provides features such as customizable workflows, dashboards, project and issue tracking, roadmap planning, and integration with numerous development tools. It supports methodologies like Scrum and Kanban and offers powerful reporting capabilities. Jira is available as a cloud-based platform or as an on-premise software solution.