JIRA in PMO team

Question

Hi all,

I want to setup a PMO. Software development teams in the company already use JIRA.

My main goals are the below:

1) The PMO leader needs to have an overview of the teams' projects (status, size, start-end date, Project Manager etc.)

2) Each Project Manager will be responsible for 4-5 projects, so for each of them they should to be able to have a project plan, board, timeline etc (completely separated from the other running projects). It is very important to be able to have unlimited levels of subtasking (some plans may be very detailed and with deep structure) - which I think is a limitation (only tasks and 1 level of subtasks can be added).

3) Some tasks / subtasks for each project have to be assigned to software development teams, so they have to somehow be linked with the tasks added to software backlogs.

How this can be implemented with JIRA (work management)?

Should I open a new project in JIRA for each PMO project or all of them should be considered Epics, within the same JIRA folder?

Thank you in advance

Hugo Mora · Answer

Hi Dimitrios,

We’ve released PMO Assessment & Reports for Jira—a lightweight way to see Cost, Quality, and Time for your projects in one place. Create Accounts to group projects, plug in hour costs/budgets, refresh metrics on demand, and spot quality issues (including a helpful “MUDA” waste report). Works on Jira Cloud.

Try it here --> https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1228554/pmo-assessment-and-reports-for-jira?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

Would love your feedback and questions!

Thanks!

Dick · Answer

"Plans" comes with your Jira. Your admin can give you permission to use it (either as a viewer or editor).

Dick

Dimitrios Skouras · Answer

Dear Walter,

Could you please provide some help on 'Plans' (former advanced roadmaps)?

As you say, we are in a Premium Cloud plan, but I do not have this option on my top menu. Is there a configuration that has to be done by my account's admin? Could you provide guidelines on that?

Also, is 'Plans' included free of charge within Premium? Or there is extra cost depending on the number of our account's users?

Thank you in advance