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Scaling Agile with Jira Align

You're reading from   Scaling Agile with Jira Align A practical guide to strategically scaling agile across teams, programs, and portfolios in enterprises

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800203211
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dean MacNeil Dean MacNeil
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Preparing for Jira Align
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Jira Align FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Implementing Jira Align 4. Chapter 3: Navigating Jira Align 5. Section 2: Problem-Solving with Jira Align
6. Chapter 4: Team Challenges 7. Chapter 5: Program Planning Challenges 8. Chapter 6: Program Execution Challenges 9. Chapter 7: Enterprise and Portfolio Challenges 10. Section 3: Special Use Cases and Add-Ons
11. Chapter 8: Bimodal Development, Advanced Data Security, and Analytics 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Planning for value delivery as a program

A best practice for delivering business value as a coordinated team of teams is to capture the planned and actual business value at the program level. Programs typically select a dozen or so of the highest-ranking features from the product backlog to deliver each business quarter. Teams will then break features down into stories, load the stories into sprints, and determine target sprints for feature completion.

Teams also take note of, discuss, and agree upon dependencies, for example, when one team needs to deliver a story for a feature primarily developed by another team. Note that while the program itself owns the features, it is common for a particular team to take the lead and be the primary team for feature delivery. Jira Align supports these standard dependencies among teams in the program as well as external dependencies, for example, when a feature relies on a component being delivered by an outside vendor.

Each team then decides...

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