Tom O_Connor Atlassian Team

Introduction In the fast-paced world of software development, the paradigm has shifted from focusing solely on project management to embracing a more holistic approach that centers around the concept of purpose. This transition from Project to Purpose is not just a buzzword but a transformative ideology that drives…

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Project Manager roles and responsibilities expand and adapt for many organizations that are transforming to Agile@Scale. The question of “what is the role of a Project Manager in an Agile transformation” has been debated for many years, and the reality is nearly all of the Agile@Scale frameworks don’t define the role of a…

Status reporting is a key activity that most Project Managers undertake and in the previous two parts of this article series we have addressed how to provide some great, real time reporting from Jira Align. Did you know Jira Align actually has a status report? A good status report offers a high level overview of your…

Welcome to Part Deux (2) of the series of articles on how Jira Align can benefit the Project Manager role. In Part 1, we introduced you to setting the subjective health on the work our teams are doing. So how do we instill trust in our assessment of health with empirical data and information in Jira Align? “I'm not saying…

It’s been just over 51 years since the United States put a man on the moon with Apollo 11. The main objective for NASA was to get astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin to land on the moon, walk on the moon and then return to earth safely. This simple achievement of what was accomplished, as defined by…

Due to recent challenges of most companies having to move to virtual and remote PI planning events, the Jira Align Solutions Architects wanted to start to capture some best practices and FAQ Table of Contents. Our goal is to share experiences, ideas and suggestions and to foster feedback and ideas from others in this…

One of the key ceremonies as part of SAFe PI Planning or big room planning is our Scrum of Scrums (SOS) during the team breakout planning sessions. The SOS may occur several times over the team breakouts to ensure that dependencies are getting identified and addressed, risks are getting raised and reviewed and raising any…

Setting the business context, product/solution vision, architecture vision and development practices of the PI (Program Increment) Planning from SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) event are a key component of kicking off a successful PI Planning event. The challenge of a virtual and all remote PI Planning event varies and one…

Jira Align provides the ability to add risks to a program. As part of PI Planning as defined by SAFe (https://scaledagileframework.com/pi-planning/ ) teams may identify program-level risks. By adding a custom field for TEAMS on the RISK object, you have the ability to track the program risks by the team that raised the…