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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 Align is great

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Eloise McQuireView profile
CRM Marketing Coordinator in Marketing at PureGym (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Jira Align to keep track of projects as a CRM team. Individuals will use a set template to write a business task which then will be added to the kanban board. The board is split into different countries so we can easily see what is happening where. We also divide the board by area, eg. Winback/retention upsell.

Pros

  • Organises team projects
  • Helps split up different project phases.
  • Keeps all project info in one place.
  • Integrates well with other software.

Cons

  • Annoying sometimes when tickets disappear.
  • Sometimes hard to search for old tickets.
  • Files sometimes do not pull through properly.

Return on Investment

  • Project delivery
  • Testing and finding errors
  • Improving work in a collaborative way

Usability

Alternatives Considered

monday.com, Connecteam and Microsoft Teams

Other Software Used

monday.com, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure Databricks, Braze

JIRA - A simple way to Agile

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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!

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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

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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