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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800203211

Length 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

JIRA

Concepts

Agile

Authors (2):

Dean MacNeil

Aslam Cader

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

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

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Mapping people, work, time, and outcomes

Jira Align provides a holistic view of how people engage in work over periods of time in order to achieve outcomes. These four dimensions are key to planning and alignment and play a significant role in business agility. While the teams continue their work in the best-of-breed Jira Software, Jira Align connects team-level execution with top-level strategy.

There are a number of ways in which team-level work can be organized in Jira. Keep in mind that a project in Jira represents a container for work items and is hence analogous to a backlog. Also note that there is not a team entity in Jira's database. Therefore, Jira Align will derive teams based on Jira project/board combinations. Here are the two top options for mapping projects/boards in Jira to teams in Jira Align:

One Jira project per team of teams, one board per team, and one active sprint per board. This option requires a custom team field in Jira to drive each board...

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Authors (2)

MacNeil

MacNeil

Dean MacNeil has been passionate about agile practices and tools since before they were called “agile”, having pioneered a form of iterative and incremental product delivery at the world's leading music company in the mid-1990s. As an Atlassian Certified Consultant and Enterprise Agile Coach, MacNeil has helped companies of diverse sizes and verticals, including some of the world's largest and fastest-growing companies, to improve business agility and outcomes. MacNeil also writes about music and is a lifelong musician. He lives in Los Angeles where he enjoys hiking, biking, and sailing with his son.

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Cader

Cader

Aslam Cader is a software professional with over 10 years of experience working with teams at all levels to solve complex business problems while improving business productivity and agility. As an Atlassian Certified Consultant, Cader has helped companies standardize business processes around lean, agile, ALM, ITSM, DevOps and digital transformation programs. He is particularly passionate about scaling agile, governance, and best practices to support the scaled use of Atlassian stack, cloud and ecosystem solutions. He lives in London and enjoys traveling and time with his family.

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