Discussions
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How a Ways of Working Community Event hits different (and bigger!)
TL;DR * Last week we hosted one of the largest Atlassian Community Events in Sydney with 120+ attendees * The content was focused on Ways of Working, with three (3) curated topics/speakers and an MC to ensure flow throughout the event * With the help of some simple exercises and intentional topics, the audience was fully…
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Connecting Jira Cloud Roadmap with Jira Align Roadmaps
If you're a Jira Cloud customer you've probably come across the neat functionality that allows you to build roadmaps of your Jira Epics.... Teams (and Team-of-Teams) can leverage the Jira Cloud Roadmap functionality to build roadmaps of Jira Epics in order to visually share their plans (which is awesome)! Now, if you're a…
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Working on the Right Stuff - Prioritizing Epics in Jira Align
I recently had the opportunity to help a customer prioritize their Epic Backlog for the first time, and we leveraged Jira Align to do it. We brought together 12+ senior leaders to review 40+ Epics, and the result was a new level of visibility and alignment for the organization. Here’s a brief synopsis of what we did so…
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Have a dependency on a team outside of Jira Align? There's a toggle for that!
**Updated to reflect recent changes to Jira Align in Version 10.81** One of the most powerful aspects of Jira Align is the functionality it provides around dependency management. One question that always comes up though is... "I have a team that's not in Jira Align...can I issue them a dependency?" You bet you can! Within…
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Need Jira and ADO in one Team-of-Teams / Program? There's an app for that :-)
A customer recently asked... "My team-of-teams is composed on Jira teams and Azure DevOps (ADO) teams. Is it possible to represent these teams as working together in Jira Align?" If you're familiar with the connector in Jira Align, the answer goes something like this... "No, all teams in a team-of teams / program need to…
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Ask the Experts: Constraints, Bottlenecks, and Jira Align
We here at Atlassian love to help our customers solve real business problems with our products. As a member of the Solutions Architecture team, my teammates and I spend most of our time working 1:1 with customers talking about business problems and then reaching into our toolbox of Atlassian products to determine what the…
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Why enable the Jira Align Why Button?
One piece of Jira Align you’ve likely seen but may not have given much attention to is that small Why? button located at the top right of each work item. Though small, this little button has the power to dramatically change the direction your organization takes when approaching work. Why, you ask? The Why? button helps to…
