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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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Great product!

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 26, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Provides us a tool for agile projects. Most of our IT teams are using this tool for new projects and ongoing support.
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moaz shaikh
Program Manager - Information Technology
Program Manager
IKO
Jira Align3 years of experience

JIRA - A simple way to Agile

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 26, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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Agrim Garg
Consultant - Product Management
Associate Product Manager
OLX
Jira Align1 year of experience

Jira Align at a glance

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 1, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Jira Align helps in Project planning based on agile concepts. It helps streamline the project management and tracking.
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Manas Singh
Professional - Information Technology
IT Architect
Guardian
Jira Align4 years of experience

A great tool for product managers

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 24, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Jira across our Product, Engineering, and Business Operations teams in order to coordinate projects and create product roadmaps. We use it for sprint planning and assig...
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Carlie McLaughlin
Analyst - Product Management
Technical Business Analyst
Unified
Jira Align3 years of experience

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

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 19, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft) is an enterprise tool that is used to align the Scrum teamwork to the overall strategy. It keeps our teams connected, gives our team...
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Gene Baker
Manager - Information Technology
Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer
WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo Company
Jira Align1 year of experience
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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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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 27, 2020
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

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

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 19, 2021
GB
Gene Baker
Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer
WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo Company (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jira Align
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Atlassian JIRA Align (formerly AgileCraft) is an enterprise tool that is used to align the Scrum teamwork to the overall strategy. It keeps our teams connected, gives our teams the roadmap to get us to the desired end state. We also use the Atlassian JIRA Align (formerly AgileCraft) Software for our agile development process, and the tools integrate well. Atlassian JIRA Align (formerly AgileCraft) also helps our program manager prepare funding requests and show value for the money already invested.
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
The Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft) tools help keep our scrum teams moving in the right direction. It gives Sr. Executives visibility into the progress of our digital transformation efforts. It provides information to our program manager to create the necessary artifacts to justify continued funding of our initiatives. It also supports the SAFe framework, along with some others. And the Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft) tools provide integration to other tools that we use in our portfolio.

A very strong product providing high ROI

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
January 13, 2020
Verified User
Executive in Sales
Professional Training & Coaching Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jira Align
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have been using Jira Align as an enterprise-grade solution to enable the company leadership to link current developments to business outcomes. It is important for us to be able to achieve this without disrupting the work of Agile teams. Because of this tool, we believe all areas of the team benefit from it, although it is mainly used by leadership teams.
Pros
  • Company is very responsive.
  • Simple to integrate with other apps.
Cons
  • Admin settings are challenging to use.
  • Having more support from customer service on explaining new functions.
Likelihood to Recommend
One of the best parts of using the platform is that you can use disparate sets of tools among all teams. Jira Align enables you to centralize all your data which helps when plugging in a variety of other licensed apps. Ultimately this brings everyone together to plan and iterate for business agility helping all stakeholders.

Looking for Enterprise Agility, Go for Agilecraft

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 17, 2018
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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

Jira provides the best features for project tracking, and integrates with all other related software your organization uses

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 01, 2020
RM
Ryan McGarry
Vice President of Research, Neuroscientist
SPARK Neuro (Research, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jira Align
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Jira to track work tickets for our software developers and other employees involved in the product development process. This is used by nearly our entire organization and helps us track our progress and organize work that is completed by our teams.
Pros
  • Intuitive and easy to use.
  • Augments project planning to keep workflows organized.
  • Allows for better ticket tracking, so everyone on the team can stay in touch with what others are working on.
Cons
  • The initial ticket creation screen lacks some important features, such as assigning "point values" (a measure of effort needed for the ticket).
  • The browser needs to be manually refreshed to see new tickets, which can make things confusing when several people in a meeting are simultaneously creating tickets.
  • The interface on some smaller portions of the software are sometimes difficult to understand.
Likelihood to Recommend
Jira is excellent for organizations that need to track the work being done by teams of software developers, estimating time for development releases, and allowing everyone to stay in touch on what each team member is working on. It also integrates with other software, such as Confluence or Slack, so that the team can get automatic updates.
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