JBoss utilizes JIRA for product lifecycle tracking. It is used during the requirements gathering, task scheduling, QA and maintenance stages of a product lifespan.

JIRA is an overall excellent issue tracking system. However as of version 3.0 Enterprise it does not offer sophisticated project planning and tracking functionality such as calculating critical path, reflecting task dependencies, resolving scheduling conflicts, and resource calendar. These shortcoming can be partially mitigated by splitting development into short iterations (1-2 months) in order to reactively manage diviations from the base line schedule.