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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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Issue tracking for different platforms in one place.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 03, 2019
PB
PAULIUS BUCINSKAS
Analyst Digital Site Health
Western Union (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jira Align
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is being used for multiple different projects to create new tickets and track already created queues for Production, UAT, and Enhancement tickets. It allows us to check the status of each issue, assign to multiple departments, and see work logs in one ticket for the issue affecting multiple aspects of the product. We have dashboards created for easier access of necessary queues.
Pros
  • Reporting and dashboard creation.
  • Assigning tickets to different teams and tracking process of each issue.
Cons
  • Search query building options could be more user friendly.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for tracking issues in multiple environments. Tickets can be easily migrated from one environment to other. Teams can share findings and updates through the comments section. There is also an option to create multiple tracking queues for different issue categories (content issues, code issues, enhancements and etc.). New updates being sent to all who are involved with the ticket.
Jira Align Feature Ratings
Return on Investment
  • It allows to have clear deployment items structure.
  • Backlog tracking helps us to forecast deployment size and fixes count.
Support Rating
8
Great tool for issues tracking on multiple different queues for different projects.
Other Software Used
Box, ServiceNow, Zoom

Get Jira, Get Productive

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
July 25, 2021
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jira Align
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Notifications
  • Tagging users
  • Category of activity
Cons
  • Attachment size
  • Hidden features
  • Sensitive to mistyped keys
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Jira Align Feature Ratings
Return on Investment
  • Project planning is easier.
  • Tracking of project progress is no more a headache.
  • Assigning tasks and measuring load on any team member is fast.
  • Dashboard gives all the details for a sprint and next releases in one place.
  • Productivity as a whole is multiplied.
Alternatives Considered
I think there is nothing like this out there. The point is nobody can have a second thought about it and it will be the first choice of anybody for the quantum of things it has to offer and as a whole what it brings to the table. Acts as a solid database of things done in the past.
Other Software Used
BugTracker.net, Digital.ai Agility (formerly VersionOne), Workzone
Users and Roles
2000
All SDLC related departments
Support Headcount Required
5
Cloud and SDLC
Business Processes Supported
  • Project Planning
  • Bug Tracking
  • Project Progress
  • Regressions and Reopens
Innovative Uses
  • Monthly Billing
  • Monthly productivity
Future Planned Uses
  • Bug fixes database
Likelihood to Renew
9
There is nothing that can be better than Jira but it needs to keep improving certain areas especially the attachment size area.
Products Replaced
Not Sure
Key Differentiators
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
Its integration with email for notification, ease of access and the features it provides as a whole.
Evaluation Lessons Learned
Nothing would really change, it deserves what has has been stated.
Usability
9
Most of the things are easily manageable except certain things that are hidden and you need to ask teammates who are aware of how they can link attachements in the comment section and so on.
Easy Tasks
  • Comment and adding progress data
  • Attachements
  • Assigning and reassigning Jiras
Difficult Tasks
  • Adding headings/paragraphs
  • Cloning of Jiras from one project to another

Manage your project life effectively with Jira

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
October 30, 2021
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Jira Align
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Jira Align Feature Ratings
Return on Investment
  • Reduced time of email communication.
  • Quick to assign any task with detailed description.
  • By adding to watcher anyone can have a look on that issue.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Azure Devops won't have the major functionality of software management like Jira. The customization provided by Jira is having a cutting edge over any project management tool. Adds-on and Plugins feature in the Jira Tool make it as perfect as desired task management tool for any company. One of the best Agile based Project Management Tools.
Other Software Used

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 Align Feature Ratings
Return on Investment
  • Able to forecast & plan releases well using agilecraft leading to quality on time delivery.
  • Distributed teams are able to collaborate well, be it be daily scrum, retrospective, estimation though this. Also team members love the gamification part & they have fun using this tool. Earlier we use to face challenges due to distributed teams but after AgileCraft, collaboration & communication was no longer a challenge & we are able to see improvement not only in team velocity, but also team satisfaction.
  • Simplest tool to implement safe, scaling is always a problem with most of the agile tools but agilecraft helps in smoother implementation of safe practices & principles.
Alternatives Considered
JIRA basic version do not have basic support for test management, capacity planning & forecasting. Rally is good & rich in features but if you want to implement safe , Agilecraft is definitely a better choice. Rally supports safe but I did not get good support from technical desk & few features are really cumbersome to use. HP Quality Center 11 supports agile teams well but I found it pretty costly.
Other Software Used

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.
Jira Align Feature Ratings
Return on Investment
  • With Jira, it is very easy to track down various bottlenecks in the deliverables further streamlining the development process in the production stage. Running numerous IT projects with multiple bottlenecks and backlogs was the biggest challenge that we ever faced before implementing Jira. Jira made the process more efficient by saving time and money.
  • Jira helped to build customized features for different verticals. Rather than investing in different third party tools we were able to perform the same tasks in Jira. This saved us lot of money.
Alternatives Considered
Atlassian Jira is packed with features, though it costs more to have Jira compared to its competitors still it performs well for a large organization which depends a lot on digital channels for retail. For us, during product evaluation, Jira was the first choice compared to Rally and VersionOne. Jira brought in many features some of them include better integration, multiple access through the client, high customizability, etc. Some of these features were very limited in competitors, while some of them needed a third party service making the whole process inefficient. Jira came out to be the most effective alternative compared to others.
Support Rating
9
Overall support from Jira team is good. It comes at an additional price but it is very efficient. There are no long wait times, you get a dedicated team to look into your issues. The support is available throughout the year and they keep a record of your issues. Overall we are very satisfied with the support they have provided us over the years, it has been very effective for the price that we pay.
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