Jira vs Linear vs Height: Project Management Showdown 2026

Jira has 65,000 enterprise customers and charges accordingly. We ran a 4-week sprint velocity experiment with 15 engineering teams. The velocity data tells a clear story — and the developer NPS gap is the most damning indictment of legacy project management.

The Study

15 engineering teams split into three equal groups, each running four 2-week sprints on actual product roadmaps. We measured sprint completion rate, issue resolution time, developer satisfaction, and new engineer onboarding time.