Sid Narang Atlassian Team

A dependency is a service or component that a team needs to deliver functionality but cannot create for themselves. Dependencies function as agreements between teams who are responsible for ensuring that commitments are agreed upon and that work is completed punctually. In Jira Align, our customers create dependencies…

Product owners and managers, scrum masters and release train engineers (RTE) can optimize high-value throughput for their customers when they dynamically collect, prioritize and execute work using agile methods. The Jira Align backlog is a holding tank for collecting ideas for work to be done, awaiting refinement,…

Roadmaps are designed to give users a visual representation of how their work objects line up against each other in their current program increment and how they are linked together. This is a new video in a series of Jira Align short product videos to showcase three main verticals of roadmaps: (1) upfront planning; (2)…

Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is a relatively newer management methodology which draws from lean and systems thinking approaches to drive value-based outcomes, as opposed to more traditional techniques which measure output. When business strategy and product development are aligned using an LPM approach, the organization…

I’m often asked by customers to share a high level overview of Jira Align. Well, here’s a short video I created to showcase how Jira Align connects strategy to execution. In this video you will get a deeper understanding of why companies use Jira Align to power their enterprise agility. Let me know your thoughts!…

Agile teams, transformation and portfolio leaders as well as executives all want to know how well they are doing against larger strategic objectives. Areas of interest may involve team alignment to business goals; pivot/persevere investment decision-making; program troubleshooting and confidence assessment in delivering…

Portfolio leaders can use Jira Align to track work progress across three perspectives: financials, resources and execution using features like the portfolio room, the work tree and navigating across the strategy view. Leaders can use features like work hierarchy layers to get a complete view of progress across the…

Agile teams and business owners gain three main benefits from tracking risks. First, flagging a risk during the PI planning process ensures impact and ownership for mitigation are well understood. Second, the added visibility ensures the entire team is alert to the risk and monitoring it during the PI. Third and last, the…

PI planning is probably the most recognized element of the SAFe methodology and it is used to align the entire agile release train with all of the teams to a shared mission and vision. I created this short video to show how teams can set a common goal, identify dependencies, manage risks, and set PI objectives using Jira…

An effective strategy includes goals, where decisions are made and prioritized. Those goals are then aligned with investment themes to which work will be connected to. If you want to make all work transparent it is critical that you create and maintain the connections between the strategy and any work that will support…