Are you an enterprise company looking for a tool to support your Agile processes at scale? Do you find that you've grown beyond the capabilities of Jira Plans (formerly Advanced Roadmaps)? Jira Align is jam-packed with features that will make business owners, program managers, and all other planning people rejoice by providing a tool designed with Scaled Agile best practices in mind (SAFe, DaD, LeSS). Below are some key features within Jira Align that will make planning and tracking easier than ever before.
Strategic Portfolio Alignment
Jira Align provides top-down alignment by visualizing what the business is doing through Strategic Snapshots. Gone are the days when the mission, vision, and value were created and forgotten until the next planning cycle. The Snapshot becomes a one-stop shop for setting the company's "why," which is displayed as a button throughout the product. Now, it's easy to see and track the goals the company is marching towards.
Stay On Track with Backlogs and Workflows
Effectively manage your biggest work items (Epics/Initiatives) utilizing Backlogs and Kanban boards. Like Jira, global ranking is applied, so the most important items are always at the top.
Visualize Progress with Sprint Stories and Execution Roadmap
Understand what your PI looks like and the number of stories that will be worked in each sprint. Progress bar shading provides indication of the level of completeness. The Roadmap is populated with live information which takes its use beyond planning and into execution reporting.
Master Big Room Planning with Jira Align's Program Board
Big Room Planning is a big deal. Ensuring that all the Initiatives, Objectives, Dependencies, and Risks are captured and agreed upon is a full-time job. It is also vital to the success of the planning meeting. Jira Align recognizes this importance and provides the Program Board feature that allows Teams to see these critical touch points in an easy layout. The Program Board, like all reports, is constantly updated with the latest information so teams and management can stay on top of the plan as it's being executed.
The Program Room: The Ultimate Customizable Dashboard
The Program Room is an information radiator for the project's health. This one-stop shop is a customizable dashboard that lays out key data points to help management keep tabs on what's important to them. Now, decisions can be made based on live data instead of data collected from disparate sources housed in spreadsheets that are outdated before they're even complete.
Properly configured tools are the key to gaining real-time visibility into the cost of work and empowering your teams to make confident, well-informed decisions. Aggregate your data and align your teams so you never have to watch a project go over budget again.
For more insight into how business leaders are connecting strategy to execution with Jira Align, check out our webinar with Principal Solutions Architect, Amanda Babb.
Align Your Teams and Drive Success
These five features are barely the tip of the iceberg for Jira Align. This feature-rich product is designed for enterprise businesses ready to take the next step in scaling their agile practice. Not sure where to start? Praecipio is an award-winning Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner with expertise in agile transformations and implementation of Jira Align solutions that will get everyone moving in the same direction.
