Leveraging a collaborative, iterative, and easily customizable method to delivering and adoption Agile practices.

Learn how JIRA helps remove silos and make agile program management easy and fun to adapt!

Gone are the days when teams work in a linear and sequential method to move from one phase to another in software development as well as in business projects and digital transformation programs. In today’s fast paced and highly competitive market, teams must be quick, work better in collaboration, and deliver results in a superfast manner to gain competitive advantage and increase their organization’s global market share.

Agile Program Management

Agile programs and project management is an iterative method to managing projects, software implementation, and digital programs. It focuses on development and testing to happen simultaneously, delivering small and continuous releases in every increment planned, and incorporating customer feedback with every sprint.

 Increased flexibility, simultaneous devops, budget & time-controlled deliveries, complex projects, mitigating risks in iterative programs management practices, high communication within teams and collaboration with external customer environments, and fast changing deliverables; all these factors need Agile ways of iterative working rather than strictly regulated phased projects where waterfall model persist.  

Agile method allows teams to be more self-motivated and self-organized, innovate constantly, be more energetic and active in the projects, welcome customer changes, deliver frequently, collaborate better in decision making, adapt and improve, reflect and retrospect. (Learn more about Agile manifesto and principles of Agile by clicking on PMI link below “https://www.pmi.org/disciplined-agile/agile/theagilemanifesto”)

 Agile metrics provide insights on the quality of a product or service and tracks the productivity of a project team to measure performance and results. Below are some of the key questions to answer and agile metrics that can be tracked and monitored to improve agile performance. Contact ActDBI to get a demo on analytics & metrics for Agile PM.

JIRA tool for Agile Program Management

JIRA is an agile software developed by Atlassian in 2002. It helps organizations empower teams to be self-organized and connected, drive missions and the strategies to smooth execution, and deliver continuous value.

JIRA helps remove silos, unleash innovation and potential in teams, bring about openness in working, and make agile management easy and fun to adapt.

 JIRA tool helps manage projects and programs, align goals across all teams, enable devops and business teams to deliver customer service and packages at great speed and at high velocity, and manage work and tasks of agile software from discovery to operations to delivery. (Learn more about JIRA: “https://www.atlassian.com/company”)

 Enterprises and teams can benefit from some of the following points listed below with help of JIRA.

(Charts below are from ActDBI’s practice in using JIRA adoption).

ü  Connecting teams:

JIRA helps connect all teams and get them on the same page working on one single source of truth information without facing ambiguities and collaboration issues. It helps connect organization and team strategies to operational execution, determine scope & roadmaps, manage dependencies across cross-functional teams and portfolios, complete tasks faster, and acquire feedback on the same platform for retrospection.

ü  End-to-end visibility:

With JIRA, management and teams can get real-time visibility, work transparency across teams, alerts and notifications, and an unambiguous environment to work collaboratively.

ü  Enhanced productivity:

JIRA comes with pre-defined templates, timelines of plans, and Kanban, Scrum, and other agile boards. These boards can help track features and status and see workflows in a visual way. Workflows can be customized, and changes can be incorporated on the go. JIRA work management helps in tracking and monitoring time progress and priorities and deliver results fast.

ü  Improved efficiency:

With workflows and issue tracking, teams can collaborate on tasks and issues, facilitate backlog and sprint plans, interact on issues via mobile or web, use JIRA notifications and updates to resolve issues, customize metrics, and deliver quality output.

ü  Work prioritization:

Work breakdown and planning of agile use cases is smooth and easy with JIRA. JIRA helps break big use cases and ideas into manageable small use cases, user stories, epics, issues, and tasks. Developers and teams can focus on operations, code development, and delivery and leave the work prioritization tracking and administrative tasks updating with JIRA.

ü  Issue tracking:

JIRA bug tracking captures and tracks issues, bugs, and workflows in real-time, continuously throughout the project.  It has comprehensive search and report capabilities helping teams to track, record, and resolve issues and bugs. Customer complaints and problems can be recorded and managed and resolved early in the cycle for issue-free experience.

ü  Versioning:

JIRA makes it easy to schedule, plan, organize, control, and deliver releases and projects as per versions. Versions refer to customer focused feature releases and fixing issues in programs and projects management. JIRA allows for drag-and-drop facilities that allow for updating issues and assigning to the versions.

ü  Feedback and retrospections:

JIRA can be used for retrospection and feedback management in an interactive and engaging way to share reviews. Teams can have retro questions and gather data and feedback to improve future and optimize value. Feedback can be made more actionable by creating and resolving issues. Predefined retrospective templates can be used and customized.

In conclusion, leveraging best agile management practices and using JIRA can lead to significant benefits for enterprises. JIRA is best suited for agile to allow collaborative working, simplify complexities, provide clarity, and help teams deliver with confidence. Having full out-of-the-box agile support software for your devops, SaaS implementation programs, project management, and much more, results in better decision making both at strategic and team levels, satisfied customers, and happy employees.

Learn how JIRA helps remove silos and make agile program management easy and fun to adapt!

(Learn more about JIRA: “https://www.atlassian.com/company”)

Browse through some of our case studies to know more about how you can transform and redefine your program management experience.

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Content By: ActDBI, A Business Performance Management Company

Date: July 28, 2023