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Now you can decide who edits your team’s most important goals. With editor permissions for the Goals app, you control who can update strategic content, while everyone else can safely view, follow, and connect work. The new Goals permissions works like experiences you know from other Atlassian products. Goals can be linked…

In my last article, Connecting to Jira Align Enterprise Insights with SQL Authentication, I walked through connecting to Enterprise Insights with SQL login authentication. If you use Azure Active Directory for authentication, Enterprise Insights can be set up to authenticate with your Azure Active Directory. This article…

More control over editing focus areas and requesting access to Focus You now have the ability who makes edits your focus areas. The new editor permissions for focus areas gives focus area owners direct control of who can edit and follow their focus areas. With editor permissions, you get clearer ownership of focus areas,…

We’re excited to announce you can now connect your Jira Align Enterprise Insights database to Atlassian Analytics! Enterprise Insights is a data mart that’s available to Jira Align Cloud customers, providing them with access to their Jira Align data. Our new data source connector makes it quick and easy for your…

Earlier this year we announced the launch of the Atlassian value stream management (VSM) solution which brings together Jira Align, Jira Software and Atlassian Analytics to provide end-to-end visibility into the performance and productivity of teams while helping identify inefficiencies across a value stream. We recently…

Authenticate once, securely and efficiently Say goodbye to repetitive logins when transitioning between Jira Align and Jira. For Jira Align customers subscribed to Atlassian Guard, you now have the option to set up Jira Align to use your Atlassian account details for logging in. SAML single sign-on (SSO) allows users to…

If you create a chart like a table in Atlassian Analytics with Jira Align data from Enterprise Insights, you can create hyperlinked text with the chart to open a work item detail panel slide out in Jira Align so that your users can view details of a work item in Jira Align. It's an easy way improve the user experience of…

New and improved Strategic driver allocation report Out with the old and in with the new! We’re excited to announce that we will be releasing updates to Strategic driver allocation report in the upcoming Jira Align release 11.7 (production release January 10, 2025). The Strategic Driver Allocation report is getting a…

Available today for Jira Align cloud customers with Enterprise Insights We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new set of Enterprise Insights administration features. For Jira Align cloud customers who have Enterprise Insights, you now have the ability to self-manage set up, update firewall rules, and invite…

Available today for Jira Align customers with Enterprise Insights We’re announcing a new secure and scalable option to export your Jira Align cloud data from Enterprise Insights and import it into your own database or data lake. Refresh: What is Enterprise Insights and what is it for? Enterprise Insights is a data mart…

Now available A new VPN connection option for Enterprise Insights is generally available and can offer more flexibility and security. You may opt-in if you use, or upgrade to, the virtual private cloud (VPC) offerings for both Jira Align and Enterprise Insights. Refresh: What is Enterprise Insights and what is it for?…

In Jira Align, Kanban team throughput is a calculated value within the UI and is calculated based on the average number of accepted stories in the five previous weeks. To calculate the throughput value from data in Enterprise Insights, the current_dw.Story and current_dw.Team tables are queried and the records are returned…

Once you’ve connected the Jira Align Enterprise Insights data source in Atlassian Analytics, the data source is set up with a default schema configuration. You can customize the schema configuration to align with how your Jira Align instance is configured. Here are a few tips to customize your Enterprise Insights schema…

Prioritizing work can be a real challenge in an organization especially when you need to align the work across multiple teams and levels within your organization. Jira Align can help teams understand what is the work they should be focusing on and why they are doing it. Check out this video to see how Jira Align can help…

If you have Jira Align Enterprise Insights and want to create a report that with the Value Score that is displayed on the Value tab of Epics, you may have been left scratching your head on how to do that. The current_dw.[Epic Value] table within Enterprise Insights contains score value for each question answered on the…

If you have Jira Align Enterprise Insights, you probably have asked yourself at one point that: "Where is the table that contains that data for...?" Eventually, you may have figured out the table by searching through the entire schema only to find out that the name of the table doesn't match the terminology used in the…

If you have Enterprise Insights, you may have asked yourself: "How do I get the same story records that match the Jira Align Story Grid view for a given program and program increment/quarter?" This article walks through the logic behind how Jira Align identifies stories associated with a program increment/quarter for a…

For those in the Community that are using Jira Align: * Is your Jira Align configured to sync the Accepted Date with the Jira Resolution Date and have you set up a post-function to populate the Resolution in Jira for the transition to the Done status? * Have you also created a post-function to clear the Resolution when the…

Jira Align Enterprise Insights enables you to create custom reports and dashboards with your existing data visualization platform (ex. Power BI, Tableau, etc.). While viewing a custom report or dashboard, your users may want to view the related work item data in Jira Align. This requires users to manually search for a work…

Enterprise Insights is a SQL data warehouse for Jira Align that enables you to query your Jira Align data using database tools like SQL Server Management Studio and Azure Data Studio or develop custom reports and dashboards with your own data visualization tools such as Tableau Desktop Download or Power BI Desktop…

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In the age of digital transformations, IT organizations and large enterprises are embarking on Agile transformations to stay competitive in their rapidly evolving markets and industries. Many large organizations adopt an Agile scaling framework such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Scrum at…

How do you know if you are building the right product for your customers and not the wrong one? A lean canvas is a one-page business model canvas that can help shape an idea by visualizing the desirability, feasibility and viability of it A lean canvas can be used as a collaborative tool to define the target customers, the…

Issue workflows in Jira can be quite complex. When integrating Jira with Jira Align workflows must be simplified in order to sync the Jira statuses with Jira Align states. It is recommended best practice that resolutions in Jira are also simplified to ensure that the Accepted Date of features and stories in Jira Align are…

At the end of Day 1 of PI Planning is when the Management Review and Problem Solving meeting occurs in which challenges and impediments surfaced from the Draft Plan Review are a discussed and possible plan adjustments identified. The meeting is facilitated by the Release Train Engineer (RTE) with key stakeholders that…

Draft and Final Plan Reviews are timeboxed sessions during the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) PI Planning event where teams have approximately 5 to 10 minutes to present their team preliminary (Day 1) and final (Day 2) plans, PI Objectives, and risks and impediments. For Agile Release Trains (ARTs) of 5 to 10 teams these…

One of the main benefits of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Increment (PI) Planning event is face-to-face planning in a "big room" with all the teams on an Agile Release Train (ART). However, in the age of digital transformation teams are becoming more geographically distributed across multiple locations and…