Marcin Geb _SoftwarePlant_ Atlassian Partner

Hello Christian Much simpler, although a little bit more manual method. With a limited number of epics and some trust between teams, why not? Anyway, no need to delete those placeholders. Just a thought.

Hello Corinne, Thanks for the comment, a developer has worked hard on the issue, BigPicture with the fixed Board will be released mid-June, please update.

Hello Deborah This 'cog' icon means 'Go to today', in other words to the current year. If you are standing on the 2019 calendar, and today it's 2020, pressing that icon will bring you back to 2020 calendar view. I marked that icon in the below picture. I was trying to recreate the self-shifting holidays problem, and I…

Hello Robin Thanks for the question. ad Is there a way to have the subtasks show in the same order they appear in the parent task? Or default to order by key? You can sort by the Key, or any other field that you've added to your view, be it Story Points, Status, or Team. Just select Data > Organize tasks > Key, as…

Hello, not sure how useful my answer will be, but you've attached the 'big-picture' tag to your question, which others do when they're specifically asking how to model a thing in BigPicture. So in BigPicture, you've got two modules for such allocation analysis: Resources and Reports. Figure 1 Resources, note how you can…

Hi Kara, sorry for the late response. I'm not sure whether I got your situation right, but when I'm considering your tasks competing for the test stations that are in limited supply, I imagine these test stations could simply constitute a team in BP. A team of test stations, just like a team of humans. And so you could use…

Hello, this is where you make this setting: Jira administration > Manage apps > BigPicture > Technical configuration > General > Task > Task configuration More: https://wiki.softwareplant.com/display/DOCUMENTATION/Task+configuration#Taskconfiguration-TaskPeriodConfiguration

Hi Mark I'd try configuring that globally and not 'per project' since BigPicture currently doesn't support the per-project Risks configuration in the context of next-gen projects. See the very bottom of the 'Missing features' section here…

Hi Robin I'm not sure if I got you correctly, but I think you try to change the order of tasks on the Roadmap being logged in as you, and then you expect that other team members being logged as "them" will see the exact same order of tasks on the Roadmap as you do. I only did a few tests on BigPicture Demo instance, being…

Hi Paul, I asked our support team: This might be due to the Portfolio parent link. Try using a different link (any Jira custom link will work, just make sure it is not used as the Gantt link in Technical configuration > General > Link configuration. Link your Portfolio Epics with your Epics using this link and activate the…

Hi Yakir I recreated your scenario, as pictured. The BU-16 task is "in progress". Created your Task D, it's BU-44 in the screenshot below. Cloned the BU-16, so that BU-46 was born. Recreated the end-to-start links between the tasks. Deleted the baseline of BU-16, so that the baseline of BU-46 stands for the overall delay.…

Hi Georg Yes, you could access BigPicture's REST API from Jira Cloud but it's trickier than on Jira Server, since it involves communication between third-party servers and a somewhat difficult token generation. And so we normally tell clients that there is no REST API in BigPicture for Cloud, although it does exist, same…

Hi Caterina Indeed, you may need to re-configure your BigPicture to Jira interface. Try Jira administration > Manage apps > BigPicture > Technical configuration > General > Task > Task configuration This is how we set up our demo environment:

Hi Yakir, There can only be one baseline per program. Once you create another baseline the first one is gone :( Now, is there a workaround? I regret I don't know the details of your case, but these are a few solutions I can think of: 1. Clone the program to "archive" the original baseline. 2. Take a screen capture of your…

Hi Caterina To observe tasks from Jira projects A, B, and C on a single Roadmap or Gantt chart in BigPicture you need to create a BigPicture program and then you need to add projects A, B, and C to the scope of the newly created BigPicture program. In the below screen capture there are 725 Jira tasks in Projects A, B, and…

Hi Paul Try the program's administration -> Tasks -> Task structure. Experiment with structure builders, as in the example below. Drag and drop them.

Hi Sudheer Thanks for the suggestion. There is an alternative solution to access Jira issue detail view in BigPicture Cloud - mouse right-click on a task's id, see the picture below. Then 'Open link in new tab'. Atlassian API does not provide such functionality on Jira Cloud. Ticket on Atlassian's end:…

Hi Laleh, Starting BigPicture 7.10. there is this new Overview home screen, try changing cadence there.

Hi Scott The yellow markers result from the task being in manual mode. Once you switch that task to any other mode (typically Auto bottom-up), the yellow markers will disappear. More: https://wiki.softwareplant.com/display/DOCUMENTATION/Gantt+-+Task+modes+-+Manual

Hi, I pressed 'Like' twice below the article and William's comment. ad The expensive way: Buy a big PPM tool and integrate it with Jira. Not to interfere with Profields, but BigPicture (that I represent) is a 'full-size' PPM app for Jira; I wouldn't call it daylight robbery in terms of pricing ;) ad a toolset that rides…

Thanks for this quick preview of Atlassian portfolio. As for free licenses, some Marketplace vendors follow Atlassian's policies. So if an NGO enjoys the (currently) 100% discount for Server or 75% for Cloud, then they can even run full-time project management for free, with apps such as BigPicture. 

Compared to 2012, you now have a few mature solutions if 'High-level overview' and 'Control' is your priority. One of them is BigPicture, that didn't even exist back then. Most of your goals, e.g., release accumulated delay (baselines, see fig. 2), estimated finish date, dependencies between projects, could be done with…

BigPicture actually targets this classic, non-software, MS Project-like approach. The app has all four: * Gantt Charts * Hierarchy with subtotals * Resource Management * Easily reporting of Time and all the agile stuff, too. It's been available for Cloud since 2017. Please have a look at this all-in-one screen capture of…

'Multi project management' means these to me: * a single - super aggregated progress bar for the whole portfolio (for a CEO) * being able to drill the whole thing down to the sub-task level (for a team) * no matter which tool you use - roadmaps, boards, risk matrices, Gantt charts, resources - you can change your…

Hello John It sounds to me as if you are looking for a tool that can aggregate low-level, granular tasks. I would explore work breakdown structure tools, and these are two screen captures from BigPicture, that I represent. Note that both screens show a mixed Waterfall-Agile environment. Looking at the first image, you…

As for BigPicture, it's a portfolio management app, more than the two roadmapping modules it has (Scope, Board, Resources, Risks, Reports, Teams). Currently the cheapest of its class from Marketplace. More on roadmaps in BP: https://softwareplant.com/jira-product-roadmap/

BigPicture was mentioned several times... Pictured is one quarterly product roadmap available in BigPicture. Another one is Gantt chart module that, starting BigPicture version 8, you can rename to 'Roadmap' ;) You've got product roadmaps of BigPicture discussed here https://softwareplant.com/jira-product-roadmap/ ad The…

Not any, but the best Gantt chart, right? Look at the # of active instances and the # of releases per year (both available from a plugin's page on Atlassian Marketplace). While the former is obvious, the latter indicates actively developed Gantt chart apps. Why is 'actively developed' important? Some people believe that…

Hi @srikrishnap ad Does Bigpicture support epics->features-> stories as jira doesn't have this hierarchy mechanism ? Any videos or documentation on this ? Yes, BP has a work breakdown structure that you can configure to nicely display the epics->features-> stories hierarchy. To set the hierarchy, go to BP Program…

Hi all Cloud users this is just to let you know that all major SoftwarePlant's apps (BigPicture, BigGantt, BigTemplate) have been released for Jira Cloud, with BigPicture Enterprise edition being the last in line :) https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/1211388/softwareplant Thanks for staying with us.