What is the Best SAFe Agile, SAFe for DevOps plugins for Jira?

[Shrikant Wagh]

I am implementing SAFe Agile and some QA and DevOps best practices. Any thoughts about off the shelf available plugins for WSJF calculations or support for PRN calculations for Risk Based Testing approach. Would like to hear from you.

Thanks,

SW

[Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_]

Hello, @Shrikant Wagh.  What I've seen most frequently in Atlassian customer organizations is:

• Jira Align (from Atlassian), and/or... 
• Structure for Jira, and/or...
• BigPicture

Also, within the Atlassian ecosystem, there are two solutions partners who I know have strong expertise in this area: Adaptavist and Cprime.     

Here again, I am sure there are others. But those are the two I see most frequently helping people with SAFe and Atlassian products.  You can look for more here: 

https://partnerdirectory.atlassian.com/

Full disclosure: ALM Works makes the second product I mentioned, Structure for Jira, and we have numerous customers who use it for SAFe Agile.

Hope this helps,

-dave [ALM Works]

[Anna-BigPicture]

Hi @Shrikant Wagh

Successful adoption of SAFe® starts with identifying a value stream to deliver consistent value to customers. In practice, the selection of suitable tools that will actively support SAFe activities is not insignificant.

@Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_ has mentioned BigPicture. In fact, this tool was inspired by SAFe :) 

Shrikant, I enclose the link to our article: SAFe® with Jira & BigPicture, which I hope you'll find useful in market research :)

I am always ready to answer your more precise questions. 

[Dave Liao]

@Shrikant Wagh - Did you say WSJF calculations? Structure, for sure. Their core product offers the ability to calculate aspects of an issue (to figure out WSJF, for example), and the latest version of Structure (7.0!) lets you pull data from sources adjacent to issues you're curious about.

I'd also consider Easy Agile's products - in particular, Easy Agile Programs.

Both products let you to see dependencies between issues, and review large swaths of work. They're also both available for Jira Cloud and Jira Data Center.

What version of Jira are you using?

[Elizabeth Cranston [Easy Agile]]

Thanks for the shout out @Dave Liao 

If you ever want to share your experience with Easy Agile Programs, please book in a session here.

Have a great day,

Elizabeth

[Dave Liao]

No problem Elizabeth! 👋😊

[Benjamin Horst]

It depends a bit on what you want to achieve and how big of an enterprise you want to manage. As mentioned by Dave

• Jira Align works very well with Safe. But it's very pricy. In addition it has a lot of config options and is not a tool with which to start fast. 
• I don't know Structure well, but Seibert Media offers Agile Hive which left a very good impression in the Demo as well (not available in Cloud as far as I know)
• Big Picture offers a white paper on how to implement Safe with with their solution

If you are just aiming for WSJF solutions and backlog management, you might want to have a look at Foxly 

[Colin Helke]

Hey @Benjamin Horst, Thanks for the Agile Hive shout out. It is always appreciated.

@Shrikant Wagh I am a consultant for Seibert Media and like Benjamin said, we offer Agile Hive as our SAFe solution. I would love to walk you through our feature set and answer any questions you may have. If you would like to schedule a meeting with me, you can select a time here: https://seibert.biz/chelke

[Dave Liao]

@Benjamin Horst - Foxly looks cool! Shame it's only for Cloud (as far as I can tell)...

[Edwin Rozie]

Hello @Shrikant Wagh ,

You can use Ativo Programs for Jira to plan SAFe® Program Increments and to facilitate Art Sync meetings.

More information:
- Blog post on how to use SAFe in Jira : https://www.idalko.com/jira-safe/ 
- Book a free personal walk through demo : https://ativo.io/demo/

Full disclaimer: I work for Ativo.

With kind regard,

Edwin Rozie

SAFe is a registered trademark of Scaled Agile Inc. We are not affiliated.

[Sedera Randria]

Hi @Shrikant Wagh

I'm wondering ...

can any of these Atlassian Agile at Scale Enablements/Accreditations help you?

https://enable.atlassian.com/student/catalog/list?category_ids=22409-agile-at-scale

[Gaurav]

Following this discussion for understanding the implementation in Jira.