Environment: Jira Align leveraging a Jira Connector that syncs with a customer’s Jira instance. Situation: Changing the state of a Jira Align work item fails to sync the status change update to ...
Note: This article is the second in a two-part series on ranking. If you haven’t read the previous article, I recommend you check it out first! After ranking items in the Backlog and assig...
Ranking work items in the backlog helps your organization plan for what to develop next. The backlog serves as a prioritized list of work items, where the most important items are ranked highest. I...
Marie Kondo was all the rage a little bit ago with her focus on decluttering your house. By periodically looking at the stuff in your house and deciding if you really need it, you can keep your situa...
Scaling an organization is not easy! Getting everyone in alignment on the same terminology to mean the same things is one of the first steps to take when setting up a system of Governance. There is a...
One of the more popular frameworks used by Jira Align clients today is the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Although there certainly are mixed and diverse viewpoints about SAFe, for this article ...
Stories are small, incremental pieces of functionality that capture what a user needs and why. Multiple tasks are associated with each story. Stories are sized to fit within a single spri...
How do you know if you are building the right product for your customers and not the wrong one? A lean canvas is a one-page business model canvas that can help shape an idea by visualizing the ...
Do you know how to perform PI planning in Jira Align? How about backlog refinement? Need a refresher course on portfolio tracking or planning? New to Jira Align and need to onboard with product roadm...
Are you familiar with Value Engineering? It is a relatively new technique that allows an enterprise to rapidly discard ideas that do not deliver value. This practice is new to many, and yet...
Stories, Features, Capabilities, Epics, and Themes are five of the most common work items created in Jira Align. To help those of you that are new to creating these work items, we have compiled a Fie...
Environment: Jira Align connected and syncing with an instance of Jira. Situation: A newly created Feature in Jira Align fails to create a corresponding Epic in Jira. The following API...
One of the bigger challenges of a successful Jira Align implementation is getting Jira Align connected to a Jira instance that is located behind a firewall. The aim of this article is to give new cli...
Error Message: Window size is smaller than minimum requirements Description: When navigating through the platform, the error message displays at the top of a page or modal ...
Environment: Jira Align connected and syncing with an instance of Jira. Situation: A newly created Feature in Jira Align fails to create a corresponding Epic in Jira. No errors are see...
Managing & tracking backlogs can be a daunting task for Product teams especially in Enterprises having dozens of scrums teams working across the globe on multiple critical initiatives. Jira Align...
Several of you have requested further information on Data Residency for Jira Align. Now available in our Help Center, we are providing a downloadable PDF of the Jira Align and Atlassian Trust Ov...
Recently, a customer requested guidance on how to sync a Jira Board with an unique Filter Query. The referenced filter query brought in multiple projects into a single team's scrum board and closely ...
Bimodal development refers to the existence of both agile and waterfall development processes in the same organization. Organizations can benefit from using bimodal in the following way: Agile ...
When you add users to Jira Align, do you just add them to the portfolio and then copy them to the program? This article may make you think twice about that. Did you know that not add...
Jira Align provides the ability to add risks to a program. As part of PI Planning as defined by SAFe (https://scaledagileframework.com/pi-planning/ ) teams may identify program-level risks. By adding...
Jira Service Desk Projects can be integrated with Jira Align utilizing the following technique: 1. Create a new Jira Service Desk Project 2. Create a new Jira Software Project 3....
The Jira Align 10.61 Release provided an updated user interface for Jira Align Admin > Jira Management that includes an option for Jira sprints to sync with the options of "only sprints creat...
Some enterprises may have teams that provide value to other teams across many programs in a portfolio. You may want to represent these teams as centralized shared services teams in Jira Align. Crea...
Did you know? You can use an Excel spreadsheet to import users into Jira Align to work with the application more effectively and save time! Here are some tips you can use to ensure good per...