Discussions
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Driving a high impact Quarterly / PI planning event
This writeup aims to help teams, ARTs and Coaches understand the series of events leading up to & post a PI planning event, that is the ceremonies & the activities recommended in order to execute a high-impact planning session. Though there is content existing around this topic from a tooling perspective, but here the…
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Make relevant Features visible on your Jira board
This writeup is aimed at automating and simplifying a use-case around features(Jira Epics) and Jira boards especially encountered when integrating Jira with Jira Align. Background When integrating Jira with Align for a large Organisation the common Jira landscape which exists is the following i.e. a single Jira project…
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Flow of Dependency Management in Jira Align
The following image depicts the dependency workflow in Jira Align. In Jira Align a dependency is a contract between two teams wherein the requesting team creates the contract and the responding team accepts the contract or proposes changes in the contract which then go back again to the requesting team and the negotiations…
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JET checks and their implications
Jet is a free Marketplace app for examining and optimising boards in Jira; it'll help you determine if a team's current practices would support their ability to provide cross-team visibility into the progress of work and how that work ties into larger company objectives. Running a Jet analysis will help your agile teams…
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Foundational learnings and observations for driving transformations
Few months back I had the opportunity to speak at an Agile event organised by a Fortune 500 Company. The talk was quite well received as it had plenty of real-life learnings based on various customer engagements around driving great transformations. The intent of this writeup is to share with you some of those learnings…
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Consolidated Backlogs with Jira Align
Managing & tracking backlogs can be a daunting task for Product teams especially in Enterprises having dozens of scrums teams working across the globe on multiple critical initiatives. Jira Align helps organisations in aligning strategy with execution and among the plethora of features it offers, one of them is giving…
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Feature - Team association in Jira Align
The intent of this article is explore the various options of associating Features with Teams in Jira Align. We know from our Agile and SAFe experience that stories are directly associated with a team while a Feature is associated with a Program. Also, a feature should span a single program increment and a story should span…
