We explored a couple of different options with DevOps, Microsoft Planner, and monday.com. We definitely looked around at different options. Ultimately, LeanKit offered the most flexibility and customization of the actual boards, which we really liked. I think that allows us to make it exactly what we need in terms of the Kanban board and style.

We already had Jira in our organization, so we looked at Jira. We decided to go with LeanKit because we were looking for a simple Kanban-based application. Because we had already used Planview's Enterprise One application, we thought we could try LeanKit and see how it works, and we have been with it for three years.

We also looked at JIRA Align. 

We evaluated only SharePoint a little bit. We sort of figured out in our heads that this solution was going to work. We also already owned it because we already had Planview Enterprise One. We knew that we had the licensing for LeanKit, so it became an easy decision because of their flex licensing model. Then, all of a sudden, your licensing is going to work for all these other tools.

We looked into Clarizen and Adaptive. 

We didn't evaluate other options because the way our license was structured for our other software allowed us to use this as well. So, it was like, "Oh, we now have access to this. Cool."

I have seen AgileCraft, which is now JiraAlign. I have also seen JIRA. Those other products are more centered around scrum and scaling, which are completely different types of products, but that is what they are sold as. JIRA is sold as doing scrum, but doing Kanban also. Whereas, LeanKit is Kanban.

We didn't evaluate other solutions because we were already in PRM and we wanted to use an application that would seamlessly integrate with PRM. We also had FLEX licensing already and we felt like we had a license for it, why let them go to waste?