...his is not supported in Jira Align and this type of sprint must be ignored (if used). Why: The connector cannot differentiate between true sprints and fake sprints. Therefore, it will build t...
...n one place, JAC (jira.atlassian.com), Atlassian’s public issue tracker for other Atlassian products such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and more. To make a suggestion, reach out to Atlassian S...
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 techni...
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...
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 alignmen...
I keep getting asked, does Jira Align support Flow Metrics, as defined in the Flow Framework and SAFe? The short answer is yes. If you believe these metrics will help unlock the potential of your tea...
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 ag...
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 ...
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 understo...
...ormalization, there will always be nuances in individual team estimation patterns which will make this statement to be true. It depends, from a solution point of view. Jira Align asks for some p...
When our customers think about value engineering their basic goal is to improve efficiency and decrease operating costs through analysis. In Jira Align, value engineering can be performed on differ...
Before we get started: I advocate to design the Jira User experience as simple as possible. Thus, if you do not necessarily need to differentiate resolutions, I would suggest to generally set them vi...
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 ...
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 ...
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 v...
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 tr...
Status reporting is a key activity that most Project Managers undertake and in the previous two parts of this article series we have addressed how to provide some great, real time reporting from Jira...
Why? As clients work through a lot of different org changes and continue to manage these particular changes at each levels of the hierarchy there are some gaps they would like to account for. They ...
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...
...an't use the Jira Cloud Roadmap functionality because I use Jira Align Roadmaps and the data doesn't sync." Well, that would have been true up until the Jira Align 10.91 release (April 10, 2021)&n...
We’ve heard from our customers and we’re making some changes to how we deliver features and fixes for Jira Align. Beginning on June 25th, Jira Align will be expanding our release process from a two w...
A customer recently asked... "My team-of-teams is composed on Jira teams and Azure DevOps (ADO) teams. Is it possible to represent these teams as working together in Jira Align?" If you're fa...
Page Load Trends This graph shows Jira Align page load performance trend version to version. The x-axis shows the areas under test color-coded to the production version. The y-axis shows page load ...
Welcome to Part Deux (2) of the series of articles on how Jira Align can benefit the Project Manager role. In Part 1, we introduced you to setting the subjective health on the work our teams are doin...
Project Manager roles and responsibilities expand and adapt for many organizations that are transforming to Agile@Scale. The question of “what is the role of a Project Manager in an Agile transformat...