AWS Quick Starts now available for Jira Service Desk Data Center
At Atlassian Summit 2016, we announced that Data Center customers can now deploy their Jira Software and Bitbucket Data Center instances to Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) in just a few minutes with AWS’s Quick Starts. We’re now excited to announce that Jira Service Desk has joined the family! With AWS’s Quick Starts – powered by […]
Portfolio for Jira 2.1 is now more flexible to the way your teams plan
The Portfolio for Jira team is excited to announce the release of Portfolio for Jira 2.1 – closing some of our top voted customer feedback on jira.atlassian.com (we’ve been listening!). Portfolio for Jira 2.1 makes planning more contextual with custom fields, labels and components; more flexible with un-estimated items, default estimates, and mixed estimates, and […]
5 ways to become a planning master with Portfolio for Jira
[cta] Even when your teams are agile, there’s still a need to plan ahead. However, it can be hard to balance the day-to-day of completing your team’s sprint with the added pressure of having to plan for what’s next. Knowing that Jira is the place where teams manage their everyday work, we’ve built Portfolio for Jira […]
The wait is over. Portfolio for Jira 2.0 is here!
Portfolio for Jira 2.0 has arrived, featuring a new integration with Jira Software. The new integration means you can say goodbye to manually tracking progress and status using disconnected tools like spreadsheets. Now, your team’s work in Jira will automatically roll up into Portfolio so you can get visibility across all teams and projects at a glance. By loading data dynamically from Jira Software, you can plan in real time and everything will always be up to date. Read more!
Agile roadmap planning done right with Jira Software and Portfolio for Jira
Agile software development supports a release plan, but it’s challenging to coordinate that on a multi-team level when you’ve got a lot of dependencies between teams. Rosetta Stone, a language learning technology company, found a solution to this challenge by bringing their entire development organization together about once per quarter to map out 10 to 12 weeks of work. And last week, I was lucky enough to watch how they do this at their 5th program increment planning (dubbed “PI5”). Here’s how it worked.
Agile portfolio management with Portfolio for Jira and Jira Software
Using both Jira Software and Portfolio for Jira, teams can see whether the day-to-day work they’re doing maps directly to the company’s overall strategy. But people often ask me “well, what happens in Portfolio for Jira and what happens in Jira Software?”. So I decided to throw together a quick diagram to show you how they fit together.
Balancing visibility and autonomy: 5 signs you need an agile portfolio management tool
If your company is like ours, you’ve implemented agile development, partly because your teams crave the freedom and flexibility to work the way they want. But you’ve probably noticed that the larger your company grows, the harder it is to keep track of all the ongoing initiatives. Agile portfolio management tools like Portfolio for Jira can help you make sense of what’s going on across your teams and projects. If you’re asking yourself any of these five questions, consider giving it a try.
Start real-time planning with live plans in Portfolio for Jira
Live Plans is a new type of real-time planning experience in Portfolio for Jira. By loading data dynamically from Jira Software, Live Plans lets you plan in real time and be assured that everything is always up to date. We invite you to try out the new Live Plans feature and pioneer the experience with us.
Inside Atlassian: a product manager and a dev manager walk into a planning meeting…
Product planning meetings are one of the most important meetings in a product’s lifecycle so we decided to take you inside a product planning meeting at Atlassian by filming the latest Portfolio for Jira planning meeting (filming the planning meeting of a planning tool seemed only fitting). These product planning meetings tend to happen quarterly and last about four hours (don’t worry – we time-lapsed it for you of course!).
Portfolio for Jira: project managers edition
This is part three of Portfolio for Jira’s “across the team” series. In this edition, I’m going to show you how project and program managers can use Portfolio for Jira to accurately plan across projects and teams.
Portfolio for Jira: development managers edition
This is part 2 of the Portfolio for Jira ‘across the team’ series. Last time, we talked about product managers and how they can use Portfolio for Jira to organize ideas, build roadmaps, and play with what-if scenarios. So in this edition, I’m going to show you how development managers can use Portfolio for Jira to […]
Portfolio for Jira: product managers edition
There are a lot of stakeholders involved in the planning process, each with different needs, and as you’d expect, they all use Portfolio for Jira differently. So, we’re doing a series on Portfolio for Jira ‘across the team’ to show you how different team members can use it, starting with product managers. Product managers need reliable […]
From rough to real-time: Klarna’s planning revolution with Portfolio for Jira
Klarna simplifies buying by providing a streamlined solution for all payment types, so that businesses can give their customers the simplest buying experience. They believe that the easier it is for people to shop, the more you sell. But Klarna’s planning process wasn’t as simple as its buying process. They needed a real-time planning solution […]
A shake n’ bake recipe for realistic roadmaps with Jira Portfolio
This recipe is for the perfect roadmap. It’s data-driven, realistic, and it’ll give you the ability to combine agile and long term planning, without the need for messy spreadsheets.
Getting roadmaps right: tips and tricks from our planning experts
In a previous Jira insiders, I showed you how the Jira Portfolio team combines long-term planning and agile execution using Jira Portfolio. I also mentioned that “techniques for coming up with a high-level product strategy could fill a separate blog post.” We were overwhelmed by the interest and feedback in that blog (thanks!), so I’m delivering […]