Jira Align is a platform designed specifically for enterprises to connect their strategy with execution, promoting transparency, consistency, and predictability at all levels of scale. The platform supports business value delivery in various agile frameworks such as LeSS, DAD, and SAFe. Also, it caters to organizations that mix agile with waterfall to support scaled bimodal delivery. This book starts by introducing you to the platform and its features. You will learn about the foundational building blocks of Jira Align and how organizations can benefit from implementing it.
Additionally, you will understand how to connect various dimensions such as people, work, time, and outcomes. The book guides you through the steps for implementing Jira Align to maximize outcomes and solve common challenges at the team, program, and portfolio levels by enhancing visibility, tracking dependencies and risks, and using reports for real-time, distributed decision-making. Throughout the book, you will explore remote agile ceremonies, live roadmaps, objectives and key results (OKRs), lean portfolio management, financial reporting, and using the program board for planning and execution.
After you read this book, you will be well-versed in the key features of Jira Align and be able to leverage them to support all levels of agile at scale. Specifically, you will learn to understand Jira Align's key factors for success, connect people, work, time, and outcomes with Jira Align, navigate and collaborate in Jira Align, scale team agility to the portfolio and enterprise, delve into planning and execution, including roadmaps and predictability metrics, implement lean portfolio management and OKRs, handle bimodal and hybrid delivery, and enable advanced data security and analytics in Jira Align.
After you read this book, you will be well-versed in the key features of Jira Align and be able to leverage them to support all levels of agile at scale. Specifically, you will learn to understand Jira Align's key factors for success, connect people, work, time, and outcomes with Jira Align, navigate and collaborate in Jira Align, scale team agility to the portfolio and enterprise, delve into planning and execution, including roadmaps and predictability metrics, implement lean portfolio management and OKRs, handle bimodal and hybrid delivery, and enable advanced data security and analytics in Jira Align.
This book is intended for portfolio managers, program managers, product managers, product owners, executives, release train engineers, and scrum masters who want to empower their teams to deliver the right things at the right time and quickly respond to changes in the market.
Familiarity with agile frameworks and Jira Software is necessary; the book will teach you the rest.
