How a large program would work in an agile and non agile way (i.e. waterfall) using JIRA?

Question

Hi,

I need to give a demo of JIRA server on a server hosted by our company.

The thing is that we would like to know in advance how a large program would work in an agile and non agile way (for instance using waterfall) using JIRA? Does JIRA support hybrid ways of working? How is best way to achieve this leveraging the Out-of-The-Box project configuration?

We are using JIRA v6.4.12 and JIRA Agile v6.7.11.

Look forward to your feedback.

Thanks,

Victoria.

Phill Fox · Answer

I would try not to split the project in two as it will make reporting on a single client more complex. You can always base a Scrum (or Kanban) board off a filter rather than a whole project and that then means you retain the full project context but can work on whichever parts you need to in an Agile approach. The spilt could be on issuetype or even a customfield to determine which methodology is in place.

Maria Victoria Martinez Torino · Answer

Our preference would be as little configuration as possible....maybe another option could be to have one project instance based on Scrum configuration and another instance based on a more traditional configuration (maybe by selecting the "Project Management" configuration?).

So, a project would have two project instances setup in the JIRA server...one supporting Agile and the other one supporting Waterfall...That way, a project team would use one or another project instance, depending on the nature of the work to be performed without having to customize the tool...

Any other suggestions or experiences in hybrid project teams are very welcome.

Phill Fox · Answer

Many of the principles are unchanged and indeed V7 really just automates a lot of what can already be done in the earlier version.