agile portfolio management
5 project prioritization lessons from the pros
Prioritizing project work with your team can be an exercise in frustration. (Been there!) Here’s how to avoid 5 common mistakes.
Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools and the state of agile
In recent years, we’ve seen agile methodologies adopted by a variety of teams beyond software development, watched the rise of DevOps, and witnessed adaptations of agile across larger and larger organizations. It’s clear that in 2018, agile has reached mainstream adoption for companies large and small, across virtually every industry. The outcomes of agile—higher quality software in […]
Scale agile practices with programs in Portfolio for Jira
To successfully scale agile, organizations need to know how software development is tracking against business priorities. This gives executives visibility into the status and progress of projects, and helps project management sleep at night. The tricky part, however, is figuring out how to link agile development to high-level deliverables. At Atlassian, we believe that the […]
Boiling the ocean with Portfolio for Jira: adventures in capacity planning
[Captain’s log August 1, 2117 – somewhere off the Gold Coast. What follows is an account of how I created the agile capacity plan for building the software that will power our mission to boil the oceans – and save humanity.] . . . If you’re reading this, it means our mission failed and the crew is […]
Atlassian named a Gartner Enterprise Agile Planning Tools Magic Quadrant leader
As more and more companies adopt agile practices, their tools need to keep up with the demands of startups to enterprises and everything in between. And no matter what flavor of agile your teams practice, we want our tools to help you iterate and release great software. That is why we are happy to announce that […]
Multiple scenario planning with Portfolio for Jira
Planning can be daunting. When you’re planning in an agile environment, you need to be able to easily and quickly adapt and change. This means making tradeoffs and quick decisions regarding project scope, who’s going to do the work, and when the team can deliver. So, how do you ensure that the roadmap you build […]
3 new features in Portfolio for Jira 2.2 to improve your roadmap
With 2017 underway, your software teams are busy planning their roadmaps for the upcoming year. This is a time when team leads, like project managers, product managers, and development managers, meet to estimate or re-evaluate estimates, so that resources are allocated, and a roadmap is committed to. To make things easier we are introducing Portfolio […]
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
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 specifically […]
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!).