I'm working with a team that has been using Jira and wanted to see if they could use Jira for the product backlog and iteration tracking. There are a set of customizations and add-ins for Jira that can make it work, as I found at this informative site. The basic idea is to use Jira versions for each iteration, un-versioned items become the product backlog, and add-ins let you fine-tune the ranking of each item and produce burndown metrics.
I'm still a proponent of using a physical task board when the team is co-located, and I think other tools like XPlanner and Scrumworks are better suited to agile development, but I'll give this setup with Jira a try and report back on how well it works.
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Brad, wondering if you have any updates on this. Our team uses Jira for defect mgmt, and was thinking of using it in the same manner. Any advice would be helpful.
I did a follow-up post here: http://agileadvocate.blogspot.com/2009/01/jira-not-so-great-for-agile.html
The bottom line is that Jira will work as an agile tool with the free plug-ins, although it's not great. I'd recommend you get the Greenhopper plug-in.
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