Portfolio for Jira
How KodaCloud moved off Excel and onto Portfolio for Jira
For product and engineering leaders at small and medium sized companies, staying up to date about work happening across multiple engineering teams can be a time-consuming endeavor. (For larger companies, it very often becomes a full time job.) This was exactly the problem that Hubert Sugeng, Director of Engineering at KodaCloud, was facing. Hubert oversees […]
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 […]
Forecast realistically with Portfolio for Jira Server’s API
For many agile development teams, accurate planning often comes down to capacity management. Portfolio for Jira lets you visualize cross-team capacity through a data-driven roadmap built on top of Jira Software data. The scheduling works according to available team capacity, but we’ve heard from many of you that scheduling could be improved if say, you were able to connect Portfolio […]
How Factom Inc. uses Portfolio for Jira to keep an evolving roadmap up-to-date and communicate status with stakeholders
An agile product roadmap is never static. New technical requirements, business needs, stakeholder feedback, customer input, and unplanned work can all change what your roadmap looks like. For some product managers, understanding the implications of roadmap changes and communicating them to stakeholders can waste a lot of valuable time. That’s exactly what Carl DiClementi, Director […]
How Quri uses Portfolio for Jira to improve product development planning
Building software is a team sport. And to be a great coach, it’s vital for leadership to have a clear picture of what the team is working on and how much bandwidth they have to take on new things. It’s equally important to set the team up for success by empowering them to understand how […]
How Thrillist merged into Group Nine Media and scaled its planning process with Portfolio for Jira
Aligning plans across an organization, staying up to date on progress, and then communicating that progress to stakeholders – simple, right? Anyone who has been tasked with this responsibility across multiple teams knows there’s often pain associated with it. Once upon a time, the way that Thrillist dealt with this challenge was by entering issues […]
Estimation best practices with Portfolio for Jira
Many teams struggle with estimation – if they estimate at all. It’s no great surprise why, there are often unknowns about what’s going to be built and the estimation process itself is time consuming. All the discussion, all the questions – would you prefer your team talk about new features, or actually build them? Have […]
How Kespry used Portfolio for Jira to bring its product and engineering teams closer together
How do you ensure your company’s strategy is connected to its ability to execute? This is exactly the question that preoccupied Jim Alison, VP of Engineering at Kespry. Kespry is a fast-growing company that provides a drone-based aerial intelligence platform that’s transforming how organizations capture, analyze, and share insights about their business, providing the information […]
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 […]
Streamline your risk management process with Portfolio for Jira
Every good agile team needs to know, is everything on track? And if it’s not, why? That is why Portfolio for Jira has launched a new dependency report that shows you dependencies across multiple teams and projects in a single view. It helps you avoid possible project delays and will save you from scouring individual […]
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 […]
We’re updating our support offering for server starter (10-user) licenses
Community Support Starting July 10th, we will be supporting Server Starter Licenses* exclusively through the Atlassian Community. History of Starter Licenses and Community Our server 10-user license tier, otherwise known as the Starter License Program, has always been affiliated with our friends at Room to Read. Since 2009, Atlassian and Room to Read have partnered to raise […]
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 […]