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@Louise Boulton Thank you for your question. Short answer is simple - Yes, the owner does need to be an existing Jira Align user. Longer answer: * External Dependencies should be managed by the internal team, these are basically dependencies that are for entities (vendors, partners, and basically any party who does not…

@Louise Boulton Question 1 - Tina is 100% accurate, the score will not be recalculated by actions taken inside the Epic (Save or Save & Close will not recalculate). If you change the Scoring Model then you will need to rescore each Epic, once the rescore is done the value will be updated inside the Epic that was updated.…

@Louise Boulton Thank you for your questions, I will attempt to address each one in order. Answer 1 * The fields for Strategic Value and Effort Swag are contained within the Epic under the "Full Details" Section. * If you are unable to see the fields in Full Details then it means the fields have been toggled off in the…

@Razy Kased Inside a few work items there are individual fields that auto-save when exiting the field itself, however there is not an instance level setting that one can enable that makes every action a save action. If users are simply not selecting the Save or Save & Close button after making updates, the organization may…

@Lucy Chien, Chialing Thank you for submitting your question, and I hope that the below information will help to provide you an accurate answer. You are correct that there is not ability to "Select All" in Membership tab of any of the levels (Team, Program, Portfolio), there is only an ability to "Deselect All". There are…

@Joseph Flynn This is a great question (although one that can likely not be answered in a Community discussion), the design of this kind of structure really require more in depth analysis and expertise in Agile Frameworks, At Scale Design, Jira Strategy & Guardrails, Jira Align integrations/configurations, etc... What I…

@Clayton Lee Thank you for your question Clayton! Release Vehicles are associated (depending upon your settings) with Fix Version/s in Jira. A Release Vehicle should represent a Deployment (typically a Production Deployment), and as such allows an Enterprise to demonstrate an Audit Trail of the work deployed on a given…

@Bob Hunt I might have to consider making this a more official Article. 

@Bob Hunt excellent question Bob, thank you for asking. Permissions in Jira Align are referenced to to Role Permissions, which mean the toggles in the admin console which allow the ability to for any given role to be allowed or denied the ability to broadly have the ability to see/access/perform actions based upon their…

@Yohannes Shenkute The base design of Jira is the power to have real-time data VS stale data from exports that are typically no longer accurate moments after the export is performed. There are various Marketplace Apps which extend the data interactions from within the UI that provide a lot of additional power to interact…

@satyanarayana kasyap karri The base design of Jira is the power to have real-time data VS stale data from exports that are typically no longer accurate moments after the export is performed. There are various Marketplace Apps which extend the data interactions from within the UI that provide a lot of additional power to…

@Matt Rosenbluth Unfortunately that does not currently exist, there are some Bugs/Suggestions related to specific fields not triggering the sync action from JA to Jira (examples below). We also have an internal request to provide this documentation in Jira Align Help, however it has not yet been prioritized, but it is in…

@Bindu_Tunuguntla Great question! Here is a link to the Jira Align help documentation, specifically linked to the Field dictionary documentation. You will find a couple of articles here (Work item state and status definitions and the Field Dictionary). Field Dictionary Please let us know if this does not answer your…

@Lucy Chien, Chialing Thank you for your question! Access to work items (Story, Feature, Epic, etc...) is either on or off by role. You can restrict Update/VS Create in most cases, however a field that exists on a work item level that a user has access to will give them access to all fields exposed on the UI. If you…

@Bhanu Prakash I noticed some updates to your questions above and wanted to address them for you. If you access this page it will provide a lot of documentation, including your question around the "Auto-Assign based upon a Story". Program Board Specifically this text: When a feature is first added to the board – either…

@Samantha Michael Here is some documentation to help guide you. I did want to address "already exceed 10 Jira Project connections" - the number of projects (non-archived) is one factor in Jira performance, however please know that I referenced a customer with 10 Jira Instances, each of those have thousands of Jira Projects…

@Johnny Ringo This is not an uncommon question, it would seem logical that the Status itself would be the triggering mechanism, however that is not how Jira Align functions. Accepted is updated in JA based upon having a Resolution Date in Jira. The Jira workflow needs to have a post-function which sets the Resolution Date…

@Inbal As I believe you are speaking about leveraging the Ideation functionality in Jira Align. This article would be on point for understanding the "Convert or promote the ideas to work items". https://help.jiraalign.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002735073-Enhancement-request-management Additionally, regardless of Old Nav or…

@Samantha Michael This are good questions, I think the below should answer your questions (a bit lengthy, but I wanted to be sure you had the right information). Maximum number of programs in one portfolio/ one Jira Align organisation? * There is not a defined technical limit to this* That does not mean it is 100%…

@Christina Haderer Snapshots themselves are not closed, they have an End date and the individuals managing the snapshots would stop adding new Quarterly Increments (PIs, depending on your taxonomy). Typically the natural patterns of closing QI/PIs, moving work items to Accepted, completing goals, etc...is all that needs to…

@Bhanu Prakash Thanks for your question, below I have provided links to existing documentation which will provide you the details of what is synced currently. Additionally, I provided additional links which expresses the ability to map Custom Fields (from the UI) for the Feature Work Item. Jira data synchronization…

@Nicolae Victor Rusu Thank you for your question Nicolae. Risks are always attached to a Program (even if the work item is a Capability, Epics, Theme, or PI). As such they pivot around the Program level as a view. Even if I refer back to Old Navigation for the Risk/Roam Report you will find that selecting the R/R Report…

@Stephanie Davis Thank you for the question. First thing to know is that you can "Sum" your Team level Forecast to the Feature by using the Sum and Sum All buttons within the Feature itself. You are not required to do so (not all customers want to Sum up the Story efforts to understand the Feature effort). Additionally…

@JOHN AMES The ability to rename would be helpful, however the steps to create a new role (regardless if you are just renaming it or copying it to change permissions is relatively straightforward. * Admins --> Roles * Scroll down to Copy * Select the role you want to have a new name. * Give the new role the name you…

@Kurt Van de Vel You could also Copy the Jira Align Epic (open the Epic, expand the the Show All and select Copy). This will present you with the first screen shot where you give the JA Epic a New Name and then you can either choose "Copy" or in this case choose "Copy with Children". After selecting Copy with Children you…

@J. Britten Great question and we have answers! Epics (below Themes and above either Features or Capabilities if you have Capabilities turned on) have multiple tabs where information is available to be entered/stored. Specifically in this case we will talk about the tabs called "Intake" and "Benefits". * If these tabs are…

@Stephen_Miller AH, I see. It would appear that I made a base assumption that your teams were all connected to a PI/QI and that the PI/QI records all had anchor sprints for the duration of the PI/QI. Thank you for your patience on this item and even more importantly thank you for closing the loop so we know you are getting…

@Samantha Michael Thank you for your question. I think the best way to understand this is to understand the basics of Strategic Snapshots, once you have that fully understood I think you will see how you effectively leverage a Strategic Snapshot for your use case. Strategic Snapshots - What are they and how do they work?…

@Stephen_Miller Thank you! Yes you need each Member of the Team to be in a Role, Each Member of the Team must also have allocations. * All Members of the Team must be in a Team Role * All Members of the Team must be allocated (by % of dedication to the team). * Only “Allocation” and not “Defect Allocation” is used. *…

@Stephen_Miller Can you help me know which Spend you are referring to?