Anna-BigPicture Atlassian Partner

Initiatives, epics, and stories belong to the agile realm. From here the surprises begin. It turns out that the popular Initiative – Epic – Story hierarchy is not engraved in stone. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and LeSS approach initiatives, epics, and stories differently. It is the “living backlog”, rather than epics and stories,…

Hello everyone, Have you ever wondered how to use links (dependencies) effectively? How can they help you in auto-scheduling your tasks and visualize the relationships between different work items? Then, I would like to present to you how BigPicture/BigGantt can help you automate not only task scheduling but also highlight…

Join this free webinar to learn how to effectively implement SAFe® using Jira and BigPicture. Find out how to make your organization operate smoothly in accordance with the principles of the Scaled Agile Framework - even in the era of hybrid work. Sign up here! The webinar will be present on June 30th.

Join this free webinar to learn how to effectively implement SAFe® using Jira and BigPicture. Find out how to make your organization operate smoothly in accordance with the principles of the Scaled Agile Framework - even in the era of hybrid work. Sign up here! The webinar will be present on June 30th.

In BP 8.1 you will find lots of new features on the way to boost your PPM and enhance your experience. To be on top of your game, check our overview page for more details.

In BP 8.1 you will find lots of new features on the way to boost your PPM and enhance your experience. To be on top of your game, check our overview page for more details.

In October 2020, Atlassian announced that it had decided to accelerate its journey to cloud by discontinuing Server (on-prem) versions of its products and modifying its pricing policy to make it favour Cloud hosting, and on 2 February 2021 this process began. Atlassian’s portfolio of solutions includes a number of…

BigPicture lets you create basic tasks as an alternative to Jira issues. With basic tasks there is no need to fill a dozen of Jira fields, just enter a name for your basic task. A basic task can aggregate its child issues (Sum time, Count status, etc.), or it can be a milestone, or phase, or whatever issue type your Jira…

We all make decisions all the time. Car or public transport? Ham & cheese, or tuna & cucumber sandwich? Allocating resources from task 1 or task 2? The more people or teams we manage, the more work is based on choosing the most beneficial options, or in more dire scenarios, the least harmful ones. Every day, an adult…

Hello everyone, Please have a look at our 5-minute tutorial - How to import from a file. You will find there all the necessary information on how to successfully import your task collection from a file as well as adjust BigPicture/BigGantt settings. Let me know if something stays unclear. I will gladly provide further…

DTO, or Digital Transformation Office, is a temporary, yet more initiative-taking, influential, and powerful body of the PMO-DTO couple. DTO is brought into being in organizations that opted to undergo a digital transformation. DTO’s reason to be is to invent what digital transformation means for a particular sector,…

Hello everyone, Synchronization (mapping fields) between Jira and BigPicture/BigGantt is a basic app configuration. In this 7-minute video - Task Synchronization, you will learn how to synchronize tasks both on the general and single Jira project level to obtain the expected outcome. If you have more detailed questions,…

Until recently, in many organizations agile planning tools were coexisting with PPM software. One might even say that agile planning tools were “reporting” to the “upper-level” classic Project Portfolio Management applications. Now that the agile transformation trend has gained momentum, Enterprise Agile Planning (EAP)…

Hello everyone, Projects and Portfolios are Box types available in BigPicture. In this video 17-minutes video, you will learn: How to organize and structure your work into portfolios, considering different approaches and listing the pros & cons of each of them. If you have more detailed questions, just tag me in this…

In 2020, we presented to the world our milestone release – BigPicture 8. It introduced an abundance of new features, advancements, and improvements. From full support for portfolio-level management and compliance with all leading agile, classic, and hybrid methodologies to unprecedented clarity of information at all…

Hello everyone, Have you ever wondering what is the earliest time you can start to work on a new initiative and book necessary resources? The latter, what skill is going to be in short supply (or oversupply) in the upcoming month, week, or even day? In this video 9-minutes, you will learn how to use the Skill feature in…

Time flies really fast! It’s already been 20 years since the famous Utah Mountains meeting of 17 passionate individuals from the software industry who came up with the Manifesto of Agile Software Development. Ever since, the world of software development has never been the same, but it didn’t stop there… Let’s walk down…

Junk data is a real thing. The term refers to every file and byte of data that does not serve any real purpose other than wasting space. Salesforce classifies four types of junk data: missing information, inaccurate information, outdated data, and duplicate data. Some users tend to keep such files because they presume…

Quick research on Google reveals there is an ongoing debate as to whether the Gantt charts belong to the agile world. My answer is yes. I would like to share with you the best practices of using Gantt in Agile projects. Here you can find a short tutorial: How to use Gantt as a roadmapping tool Please feel free to join the…

Hello Dear, Many of our customers have been asking for quite a while for a tutorial that presents basic configuration. Here, you will find a short video presenting how to create desired task structure (WBS) in BigPicture/BigGantt. I hope you will find it useful. If you have more detailed questions, just post them in this…

Many of our customers and partners have been asking for quite a while for a video that would present the major differences between BigPicture 8 and its predecessor - version 7. There it is - starting with a brief explanation of the concept of Boxes. * Learn what Boxes are and how they work, * Comprehend the major…