Focus/Talent without utilising Jira Align

[Kate]

Due to some great success stories coming through about other organisations, there's some rumblings in my organisation about the Strategy Collection. As such, I've been researching as much as I can in case 'the powers that be' want any informal opinions.

Our organisation have a very active Jira instance, but Jira Align does not fit with our delivery modes/approaches. Chats with some Atlassian representatives have mentioned that signing up for the Strategy Collection does not mean you have to use the Jira Align tool; we could just get the bundle and not use Align.

So I'm hoping that there might be some admins out there who have experience in an organisation that has Focus, but doesn't use Align; Had you encountered any problems? Data gaps? Did you find any functionality/insight losses or technical problems that would occur? If so, how painful are the work arounds for your admins/users?

Thanks in advance!