Mark Cruth Atlassian Team

Hi @Jeyesh Jeykhar ! Are you using Jira Align? If you are, there are are a couple approaches you can take. * If you talking about technical design, you may want to create a custom field on the Details tab of the Feature asking the submitter to outline technical design limitations (something you can talk to your Jira Align…

Hi @Bram Langelaar ! Thanks for reaching out! Unfortunately API 2.0 doesn't currently support the extract of Board ID data that you area looking for (we can pull a list of all teams, but it doesn't list an associated Jira Board ID). Great idea on requesting a new enhancement to do this! To submit an enhancement idea, go to…

Hi @Teresa Williamson ! I think this question would be great to ask in the Jira Software community. It looks like you've posted in the Jira Align space, which is a separate product for enterprise planning that integrates with Jira data. Here's a link where you can search for similar answers and make a new post if necessary…

Here you go: https://help.jiraalign.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045371954-Getting-started-with-the-REST-API-2-0 Once API 2.0 is enabled in your instance (you'll need to submit a support ticket to do this), add the following to the end of your Jira Align URL: /rest/align/api/docs/index.html (e.g.…

API 2.0 simply has more objects available to access compared to API 1.0 (primarily, you have access to GET/PUT/POST objects like Epics, Features, Objectives, etc.). To get a list of all the API calls, follow the instructions above and you'll be brought to pages in your Jira Align instance listing all the API calls. For API…

If you're leveraging Jira Align API 1.0, add the following to the end of your Jira Align url: "/api-docs/public/" (e.g. test.jiraalign.com/api-docs/public/) If you're leveraging Jira Align API 2.0, check out this page for how to access the…

Closing the loop on this question - Roman was able to provide an answer here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Align-questions/Impact-on-removing-people-from-team/qaq-p/1479048

Would love to help answer your questions!!!

Hi @radhika suresh If you are using the Kanban functionality described here, these Kanban boards won't automatically populate (you need to setup them up after integration). Another way to view a Kanban board for a team (you mentioned integrating a Sprint board) is to go to the Team Room > select a Team and Sprint > then…

Fantastic article, Peggy!

Hi Vinay! As long as a user has the "Show External IDs" toggle on under edit preferences, the External ID will show on the Program Board (vs the Jira Align ID). Each user would need to do this. 

Hi Vinay! If you simply delete the sprints in Jira Align and then run a board sync again those sprints would be recreated. If you want to avoid this you can... 1. When on the Jira Sprints Tab (Admin > Connectors > Jira Management), for a given board, use the "Ignore Sprint from mappings" option (click the ... next to the…

Hi Ann! To add onto what Tom and Jesse mentioned, one other place to check is the modal that controls where Objectives map to work items (e.g. Initiative, Epic, Feature)...which is called the Objective Mappings modal :-D You can get to this through the following path (it's kind of hidden)... Administration > Setup >…

Hi William! For permissions in Jira Align, you can control whether or not a user has access to edit a work item (e.g. Story) based on their system role. For each system role you can give some people access to edit specific work item types and some read-only access. The caveat is that it's a universal thing...if you can…

Hi Reddy! So sorry for not getting you a response sooner. Changing the PI and Sprint Start/End dates may impact how some data displayed in reports, but that's about it. For example, the Scope Change report pivots off of the PI start and end dates, so if you moved either date the report data could change (e.g. if you change…

Hi Raj! You are definitely not alone in your situation (e.g. UAT taking a long time, teams operating from different workflows), so we try to be as flexible as possible with the tool. On the topic of Done and Closed, make sure to ask the consultants you're working with about turning on Delivery States in Jira Align. This is…

Hi Karin! Unfortunately the Canvas (Labs) functionality doesn't have the ability to share out canvases with others at this time. One workaround I've done for this is use the Business Model Canvas functionality (exists at the Portfolio level). You can mimic the same content boxes as the Portfolio Canvas template and…

Hi Raj! Great question! In Jira Align you can map different workflows (it will make things more complicated for your admins as they will need to manage more mappings than an organization that has a single workflow). To map multiple workflows, follow the steps below for each applicable issue type (e.g. Stories, Features).…

Hi @Ann Bouvier ! The ability to change the Team Target Completion Sprint is actually tied to a persons membership to the Program Team. Whoever is looking to edit this field on the Program Board needs to be part of the Program Team and have a role (e.g. Team of Team). See the screenshot below for an example. Hope this…

Hi @Carolyn Suorsa! I wanted to correct something in my original response to you. If you are using the sprint type of IP, it actually is not included in velocity calculations (we'll skip over it in our calculations). This was an oversight on my part (*face palm*). If you simply rename a sprint to IP sprint (not changing…

You betcha! I actually prefer those fields over the Type field because you can configure them. To configure you'll go to... Administration > Settings > Platform > Dropdowns Tab

Hi Douglas, Financials in Jira Align all focus around the concept of Cost Per Point within a team. It's a complicated area, but at a basic level what we do is take the total amount of time available in a sprint for a team (we call it the burn hours), which is identified by assigning team members to each sprint at a…

Hi Carolyn! That's awesome to hear you were able to use Jira Align for your PI Planning! Glad to hear it was successful! For question #1, there are a couple reports I'd recommend you take a look at to get an idea of where you're investing your time. If you set the Feature Category you can leverage the Investment Trend…

Great question! The % visible on the Epic and Feature bars on the roadmap is calculated by dividing the total accepted effort (story) points from all the child stories by the total effort points planned from all the child stories. Ex. If I have 100 points planned across all the stories associated with a Feature and have…

Excellent article on integration with some great best practices!

You only need to set these values manually if you use a one Jira Project with multiple Jira Boards setup. If you have a one Jira Project to one Jira Board relationship you don't have to do this mapping (Jira Align infers that if a work items is associate with a Jira Project that it belongs to that Jira Board/Team). If you…

Great questions @Rolf Eckardt ! For Case #1, if you are using a team drop-down to associate Jira items with a team (this is applicable if you have one Jira Project with multiple Jira Boards associated with it), you would need to ensure that Team C is in the Jira custom team drop-down. Then you would map the values together…

Here are the fields you need to enter to populate the Success Measurement and Business Case on the Why Button... Success Measurement * Populated from adding a Success Criteria to a Jira Align Epic * Uses both the Problem Statement and Success Criteria Fields Business Case * Populated from the Benefits Tab on a Jira Align…

Hi @Marco Brundel Great question! With the Jira Align Program Board we avoid showing the red yarn to prevent the board from getting too messy with large Programs. Jira Align represents dependencies by showing an icon on the dependent team(s) row on the Program Board and highlight them along with the Feature they are…

Great callout @Rich Sparks ! Being able to create a consistent way of thinking about / managing cross team / organization dependencies is hugely powerful!