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Jira Align
Formerly AgileCraft

Overview

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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Pricing

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Starting Price

$27,000.00

Cloud
per year

Maximum Price

$3,987,600.00

Cloud
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Tasktop Hub Demo: Atlassian Jira Align with the end-to-end software delivery toolchain

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Product Details

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.
Additionally, the application is used to:

  • Communicate the value of funding strategic initiatives to investors, analysts, and employees.
  • Track and resolve program risks, impediments, and dependencies while keeping everyone informed.
  • Ensure programs run smoothly and resources are perfectly allocated to nail on-time delivery.
  • Ensure Initiatives maximize value, right-size scope and stay within budget from end to end.
  • Drive enterprise value of high-level mission and vision while connecting strategy to execution.
  • Drive digital transformation with a framework customized to scale agile in your enterprise.
  • Execute against sprint work that tracks back to your organization's high-level strategy.

Jira Align Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.

The most common users of Jira Align are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

(1-5 of 20)

Manage your project life effectively with Jira

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 30, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jira Align
3 years of experience
We are using this tool for our Project Management and creating tickets in Agile based environment. We really love this tool for the easiness and helping us in calculating the story points. It also has a backlog feature that helps us to manage our tasks easily in day to day manner.
  • Story points.
  • Priority.
  • Time tracking.
  • Original estimate.
  • Sprint planning.
  • Epic link.
  • Linked issue feature.
Cons
  • Link opens in same window.
  • Temporary Stage of assigning tickets or two assignees to one task instead of sub task.
  • Sometimes difficult to search Task by Name.
It is well suited because of easy navigation and quickly assigning the ticket to other user of the organization by informing over the email as well. Easy to create sub-task in the main task and assign it to different user for there particular activity. Sprint dashboard are quite easy to understand. I will definitely recommend this tool because of their user experience and wide acceptance.

Looking for Enterprise Agility, Go for Agilecraft

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 17, 2018
AgileCraft can be used for planning & delivery management for teams practicing scrum. We do budget forecasting , multiple release plannings using this tool at program level. We create Dashboards & captured key metrics which are presented to higher management. At team level it can be used to run daily scrum since teams are distributed at multiple locations where team can burn their hours in AgileCraft during scrum meeting itself providing more clarity where each associate is working. For estimation, planning poker game is available enabling distributed teams to estimate where stories can be pulled directly from product backlog. Other than stories, defects and test case management, it can be used to run retrospectives where action items can be captured, assigned & tracked. Scrum master can easily assign to stakeholders & track the action items to closure. AgileCraft can be used to manage sprint ceremonies effectively for distributed teams along with program level tracking for value & cost.
  • Effective Sprint planning : Sprint planning can be done using Planning Poker in AgileCraft by clicking Team > Manage > Other > Estimation Games very effectively for distributed teams.
  • Team Capacity Allocation Report: After tasks are created at team or program level, the report from AgileCraft cab be pulled and can be verified that no team member is under or over allocated. A report can be generated by navigating to Team > Manage > Assign Tasks.
  • Effective Requirement trace-ability: To maintain requirements trace-ability follow the steps below:
  • Upload test cases against the story/requirement. once uploaded test cases will be visible under that story
  • Execute Test cases in AgileCraft and mark them as Pass/Fail based on the actual outcome
  • Based on test results, The acceptance criterion's can be marked as “Pass” or “Fail” & if marked failed corresponding defect can be logged & can be attached with the story
  • So against each story we can easily see whether all test cases been executed or not & which acceptance criterion's are failed & how many defects are in open or close state.
  • Daily Scrum: In AgileCraft, the option to run a daily stand-up is available from Team > Manage > Daily Standups. Selecting the sprint number opens the daily stand-up meeting window in which each team member's tasks are visible and hours can be burned against them. Conduct Scrum meetings in AgileCraft, and burn each associate hour against the tasks created during the meeting. The burn-down chart can be generated & viewed during the stand-up to check whether the team is on track.
Cons
  • Program level metrics & Scorecards: Though we can generate few metrics & scorecards but I feel few more metrics can be added like velocity acceleration , team improvement rate.
  • QA team often come to me regarding the test case tagging, it is very difficult to search particular test case here so I feel advance search feature should be provided.
  • Program Planning: In Agilecraft program tracker if we have lot of multiple dependencies & where situation demands to look at our features holistically across the entire landscape of the solution, it did not provide proper support.
  • Also If I need to take a call at which sprint need to be optimized I did not get that decision making enablement here.
1) Forecasting & Release Planning 2) Scaling Agile at enterprise level 3) To maintain transparency, lot of information radiators, games, reports are available enabling transparency at portfolio level

Atlassian Jira Align, an efficient project management tool for multiple software developments

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 27, 2020
Atlassian Jira is an efficient project management tool that we have been using for the past three years. Especially to the IT department, it has provided us with the most efficient operation in an Agile Scrum development framework. Using it exhaustively for the past few years it has helped us to organize and monitor software development and support effectively. Being in the retail sector we have had multiple issues organizing production and implementation of different software programs over different verticals. Atlassian Jira helped us to organize those tenuous developments under one roof. Jira is highly flexible and customizable as per the projects that you have and across different departments. The customization of features in Jira enables your organization to develop and implement various IT projects at the same time. Jira makes the whole process more effective and efficient.
  • Jira is a great project management tool when it comes to tracking the progress of deliverables and milestones. Each member of the team can track individual deliverables and milestones. Jira comes with filters and search functions to perform these tasks.
  • Jira is highly flexible when it comes to maintaining tasks and deliverable backlogs. You can plan and organize your sprints in such a way that you include your previous backlogs in them.
Cons
  • The biggest challenge with Jira is maintaining the workflows. There are issues with workflow customization especially if you depend heavily on long workflow with a large number of rows, as scrolling function's unavailability in a static view creates issues in readability.
  • The efficiency of using Jira can go down with the ease of use as new users who are untrained in Jira find it difficult to navigate over Jira efficiently. Users are required to be trained on Jira navigation and customization before using Jira.
Jira is very well suited for large organizations like mine where you are required to run multiple projects in a highly integrated environment. Jira gives you the flexibility to customize the features for different projects and verticals. High flexibility in adding new features across different verticals makes it a very efficient tool. Being expensive and feature-oriented, Jira is not suitable if your organization relies heavily on small projects and outsourced vendors for development - in that case tracking projects through Jira comes out to be a big challenge. Jira is also not well suited for companies who don’t want to invest in training as Jira requires some amount of training for new users.

JIRA - A simple way to Agile

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 26, 2022
AG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jira Align
1 year of experience
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
  • 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
Very likely.

Get Jira, Get Productive

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 25, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jira Align
3 years of experience
It is used across all SDLC-related projects to track the activities and progress of the projects. It is used as a database of all the work we have done in the past, fixes made. It is used as a goal check and a planner that gives a pretty good estimate revolving around releases per sprint.
  • Notifications
  • Tagging users
  • Category of activity
Cons
  • Attachment size
  • Hidden features
  • Sensitive to mistyped keys
For any starters, the ease of access at a basic level is pretty adaptable, the tasks can be easily tracked for their progress and tagging users is really easy. Sprint planning becomes a piece of cake and adding/removing tasks is really easy too. Rightly replicates the Agile SDLC. The search engine is pretty fast and gives all related Jiras to the searched keyword.
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