Accelerate business value delivery with Jira Align, the enterprise
agile planning platform, by connecting strategy with execution to
maximize outcomes
Key Features
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Improve coordination and transparency between multiple programs,
products, and business portfolios
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Increase customer satisfaction by responding quickly to ever-evolving
customer needs
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Deliver higher quality products faster and more predictably with
real-time insights and OKR tracking
Book Description
Jira Align is a platform purpose-built for enterprises to connect
strategy with execution and drive transparency, consistency, and
predictability at all levels of scale. The platform supports business
value delivery in agile frameworks such as LeSS, DAD, and SAFe. It also
caters to organizations that mix agile with waterfall to support scaled
bimodal delivery.
Starting with an introduction to the platform and its features, this
book takes you through the foundational building blocks of Jira Align.
You'll learn how an organization can benefit from implementing Jira
Align and understand how to connect dimensions such as people, work,
time, and outcomes. The book takes you through the typical steps for
implementing Jira Align for maximizing outcomes and helps you solve
common team, program, and portfolio-level challenges by enhancing
visibility, tracking dependencies and risks, and using reports for
real-time, distributed decision making. Throughout the book, you'll
explore features such as remote agile ceremonies, live roadmaps, and
objectives and key results (OKRs). You'll also get to grips with lean
portfolio management, financial reporting, and using the program board
for planning and execution.
By the end of this book, you'll be well versed in the key features of
Jira Align and be able to leverage them to support all levels of agile
at scale.
What You Will Learn
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Understand Jira Align's key factors for success
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Find out how you can connect people, work, time, and outcomes with
Jira Align
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Navigate and collaborate in Jira Align
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Scale team agility to the portfolio and enterprise
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Delve into planning and execution, including roadmaps and
predictability metrics
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Implement lean portfolio management and OKRs
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Get to grips with handling bimodal and hybrid delivery
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Enable advanced data security and analytics in Jira Align
Who this book is for
This book is for portfolio managers, program managers, product managers,
product owners, executives, release train engineers, and scrum masters
who want to empower their teams to deliver the right things at the right
time and quickly respond to changes in the market. Familiarity with
agile frameworks and Jira Software is necessary; the book will teach you
the rest.
