Leaderboard Rollups are one of the most effective ways of driving projects to completion. They provide succinct, exec-level views of projects, as well as accurate views of what frontline teams are working on and what needs to get done. They allow managers to see how they're performing relative to their peers, creating a sense of friendly competition . And because the rollup uses the same data at all levels of management, it's 100% consistent from the top level exec down to the IC doing the work.
From a program management perspective, the Leadership Rollup can help identify who to contact when deadlines are near or help cleanly escalate when there are conflicting priorities.
At LinkedIn, we have used leadership rollups to manage some of our key projects for years. The ability to organize JIRA tickets based on a leader or a manager has been crucial in the successful execution of large horizontal projects. These include massive migration efforts, compliance and security initiatives, and company-wide programs. It allows us to review team or org tickets in staff meetings and escalate through the right hierarchy, if needed. It is a must-have tool for any program manager or leader.
Afshin Ganjoo
Head of Technology Platforms Technical Program Management at LinkedIn
A Leaderboard is based on your organizational hierarchy. Each Leaderboard is focused on one person and will contain all issues assigned to anyone who reports up to them from any level in the org. Those issues will be grouped by the direct reports of the current leader. These are shown as "manager rollup rows" in the Leaderboard table. Each row is split by issue attribute, typically to give a sense of the overall issue workflow. For instance, in the example above, issues are split by Status into "To Do", "In Progress", and "Done". The pie chart shows the overall issue distribution.
To drill up into higher level rollups, you can click in the "Manager Chain". This sets the Leaderboard to a higher level manager. To drill down the org, click on a manager's name in the Leaderboard table.
Clicking on a pie slice or a cell in the manager rollup table displays the corresponding issues.
Traditionally, a program manager or project lead will manually create a single leaderboard for the head of an organization, and this will be discussed as part of a weekly/monthly review. There are a variety ways of doing this, but ultimately it involves selecting all issues that roll up into the direct reports of the exec (see How to Select All Users Rolling up to a Manager in Jira).
An easier way is to use the OrgJQL plugin. While OrgJQL's main feature is selecting all users who roll up to a manager, it also comes with a free Leaderboard Gadget that you can add to any Jira dashboard. To configure this gadget, create a dashboard, and then search for "OrgJQL Leaderboard". A basic configuration requires three things:
Leaderboards are effective in a range of situations:
OrgJQL is available from the Atlassian marketplace. Try it today for free.
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