Best Agile Project Management Software

Hive is an all-in-one project management and collaboration platform that helps teams plan work, track progress, and communicate in a single place. It combines task and project management with time tracking, file sharing, chat, and proofing, so teams of any size can coordinate without switching between multiple tools.

Hive offers flexible project views such as Kanban, Gantt, calendar, and table, along with automation, native email, and hundreds of integrations. Teams use it to manage campaigns, product launches, client work, and day-to-day operations, with dashboards and analytics that give managers visibility into workloads and deadlines. Its focus on flexibility and built-in messaging makes it a strong fit for cross-functional teams.

Azure DevOps is Microsoft's umbrella suite of DevOps tools, bringing together Azure Boards for work item tracking and Kanban planning, Azure Repos for Git version control, Azure Pipelines for continuous integration and deployment, Azure Artifacts for package management, and Azure Test Plans for manual and exploratory testing. It serves teams that want an integrated toolchain covering the full software delivery lifecycle, available as a cloud service or as Azure DevOps Server for on-premises use.

The first five users on an organization get free Basic access to Boards and Repos, with additional users billed monthly and a separate Basic plus Test Plans tier for teams needing test management. Pipelines include free monthly build minutes with paid options for extra parallel jobs, and Artifacts includes free storage before per-gigabyte charges apply. Azure DevOps integrates with GitHub, Slack, Teams, and over 1,000 marketplace extensions.

Rally is an enterprise agile planning tool now sold by Broadcom, originally built by Rally Software and later acquired through CA Technologies. It is designed for large organizations running Scrum, Kanban, or scaled frameworks such as SAFe across many teams, giving portfolio and program leaders one place to plan, prioritize, and track work from strategy down to individual sprints.

The platform includes customizable dashboards, real time reporting, dependency and risk tracking, and test and defect management, plus connectors for Jira, Jenkins, and GitHub and an open Web Services API for custom integrations. Rally is sold only through direct sales with custom quotes, and its on premises edition reached end of life in June 2023, leaving the cloud hosted SaaS version as the current offering.

Zoho Sprints is a cloud based agile project management tool from Zoho Corporation built for teams that run Scrum or Kanban. It covers the full sprint cycle from backlog grooming and story point estimation to sprint boards, standups, retrospectives, and release tracking, with velocity, burnup, burndown, and cumulative flow reports generated automatically.

Beyond core agile boards, Sprints includes built in timesheets, meeting scheduling, and basic test case management, and it connects with other Zoho apps as well as Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, and SharePoint. It offers a free plan for very small teams and paid per user tiers, named Starter, Elite, and Premier, that scale up to a custom Enterprise plan with OKRs and budget tracking.

Zenhub is a project management tool built directly on top of GitHub, based in Vancouver, Canada. Instead of replacing GitHub issues, Zenhub adds Kanban boards, sprint planning, epics, and reporting on top of existing repositories, so engineering teams can manage agile workflows without leaving GitHub, either through a browser extension or a standalone web app.

The product supports estimates, planning poker, automated sprint planning, and AI assisted labeling and sprint reviews, and it can combine multiple repositories into a single board for cross team visibility. Zenhub is free for public, personal, and academic repositories, with a paid Teams plan for private repositories and an Enterprise plan with advanced reporting, workspace automation, and self hosting options.

Nifty is an all in one project management platform, founded in 2017 and based in New York, that combines task lists, milestones, Gantt charts, docs, and team chat in a single workspace. It is built to replace a scattered stack of separate apps, so teams can plan projects, discuss work, and track progress without switching between tools.

Nifty offers milestone based automatic progress tracking, time tracking, workflow automation, and portfolio level overviews across projects, along with native integrations for Google Drive, Slack, Zoom, and GitHub plus over 2,000 apps through Zapier. Pricing runs from a free plan for very small teams through Starter, Business, and Unlimited tiers, up to a custom Enterprise plan, with a 14 day free trial on paid tiers.

Taiga is an open source agile project management tool developed by Kaleidos, a company based in Madrid, Spain. It supports Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban workflows with a backlog and sprint planning view, a sprint board organized in swimlanes, burndown charts, and a fully customizable Kanban board with work in progress limits, plus epics, issue tracking, and a built in wiki.

Because Taiga is open source, teams can self host it for free using the code on GitHub, or use the hosted cloud version, which offers a limited free plan plus paid Enthusiast, Basic, and Premium tiers priced in euros with increasing storage and support levels. Larger organizations can also choose a managed Taiga Private Cloud instance or an on premises deployment, both quoted individually.

monday.com is a cloud based Work OS that lets teams build customizable boards, timelines, and dashboards to manage projects, workflows, and processes across departments. Beyond its core Work Management product, monday.com offers dedicated CRM, Dev, and Service products built on the same customizable platform, along with automations, AI features, and over 200 ready-made templates.

Pricing starts with a free plan for up to two seats and scales through Basic, Standard, and Pro tiers priced per seat per month, up to a custom priced Enterprise tier with advanced security and higher automation limits. Paid plans are sold in minimum seat blocks with monthly or discounted annual billing, and the platform integrates with tools like Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, and Salesforce.

Targetprocess, now marketed as IBM Apptio Targetprocess, is a strategic portfolio management platform that helps enterprises connect portfolio plans, work, and resources to business outcomes and financial impact. Originally an independent company, it was acquired by Apptio in 2021, and Apptio itself was acquired by IBM in 2023, so the product is now sold and supported as part of IBM's Apptio business rather than as a standalone vendor.

The platform supports Agile, traditional, and hybrid delivery methods, with tools for scenario planning, dependency and resource management, and configurable views like roadmaps and Kanban boards. Official pricing is not published; the site directs prospects to request a demo or contact sales for a custom quote, and no free or fixed price tiers are listed.

Digital.ai Agility, built on the legacy VersionOne platform, is an enterprise agile planning tool that helps organizations manage work from individual teams up through programs and portfolios. It supports Scrum, Kanban, and scaled frameworks like SAFe, and is aimed at CIOs, PMOs, and product leaders who need visibility into how technology investments connect to business outcomes.

The product is offered in Essentials, Pro, and Premium editions with increasing levels of portfolio management, integration, and analytics capability, but Digital.ai does not publish fixed prices; pricing is quote based and available only by contacting sales. Features include CommitStream for linking code commits to work items, IdeaSpace for idea management, and embedded operational dashboards.