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Jira Align

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What is Jira Align?

A solution to bridge the gap between strategy and execution for portfolio, product, and program management teams, used to manage idea intake, prioritize your feature backlog, and track progress with live roadmaps.

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JIRA - A simple way to Agile

Incentivized
Agrim Garg
Associate Product Manager in Product Management at OLX (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are thoroughly using this tool for our work management. Being a part of the product team, this tool is used extensively, and the complete development cycle is managed using Jira. Starting from the requirement specification to creating tickets based on the requirements, and right up to the last dev cycle, everything is updated on the Jira Align

Pros

  • Acceptance criteria
  • Development Cycle
  • Agile
  • Tracking projects

Cons

  • Clear dependencies being called out
  • Feature to omit changes
  • Detailed functionality to format the requirements with appropriate fonts, texts and images

Return on Investment

  • Transparent project alignment
  • Clear dependencies being called out through dev cycles
  • Hassle-free standups

Alternatives Considered

Shortcuts

Other Software Used

Shortcuts, ClickUp, Trello

Great product!

Incentivized
moaz shaikh
Program Manager in Information Technology at IKO (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Provides us a tool for agile projects. Most of our IT teams are using this tool for new projects and ongoing support.

Pros

  • Backlog
  • Scrumboard
  • Burn down chart

Cons

  • Sprint management and planning
  • Reports

Return on Investment

  • Provides a solid platform for real-time visibility to new projects and support tickets.
  • Best practices can be copied over.

Other Software Used

Lucidspark, monday.com

Usability

Jira Align at a glance

Manas Singh
IT Architect in Information Technology at Guardian (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Jira Align helps in Project planning based on agile concepts. It helps streamline the project management and tracking.

Pros

  • Feature Creation
  • Epic
  • Stories
  • Documentation

Cons

  • Customization to agile process
  • The software hangs at times
  • Better Integration with Jira
  • Better integration with confluence

Return on Investment

  • 30 percent increase in productivity
  • Led to better alignment between teams
  • Dependencies identified between cross functional teams
  • Streamlined product delivery

Alternatives Considered

IBM Rational Team Concert and GitLab

Other Software Used

Agile Hive - SAFe in Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Bitbucket

Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft) keeps scrum teams and squads on track

Incentivized
Gene BakerView profile
Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer in Information Technology at WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo Company (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Roadmap for our Scrum teams
  • Visibility into our digital transformation

Cons

  • There is no support for waterfall. While our development team is an agile shop, some internal partners are still waterfall. It would be nice to have better support for their work.

Return on Investment

  • Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft), in my opinion, has helped to bring the scrum teams and squads together, working toward common goals.
  • Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft) aligns with our agile development and offers full support for our SAFe framework.

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Confluence, IBM Rational ClearCase, monday.com and CollabNet VersionOne

Other Software Used

Jira Software, Atlassian Confluence, GitHub

A great tool for product managers

Incentivized
Carlie McLaughlin
Technical Business Analyst in Product Management at Unified (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Product roadmapping
  • Assigning tasks
  • Sprint Planning

Cons

  • Story pointing
  • Story writing
  • Reporting and dashboards

Return on Investment

  • Reduce friction between product and engineering.
  • Better communication between off-shore teams.
  • Decreased bugs

Alternatives Considered

Basecamp

Other Software Used

Atlassian Confluence, Google Drive, Pendo.io