Jira Align Valuable Features

AS
Principal System Analyst

The objectives are good. If you do use a scale agile, the concept of moving objectives and moving your team's work towards the objective is what is going to give you the most value. You plan around the program increments. That's what the program is about. You plan around the program increments, you do the inspect the workshop, you do the retrospective and all those things. However, for example, when a stakeholder doesn't understand the feature, or they don't even care about it, yet they have an objective or a theme, they move towards it. It makes the objectives very clear, and very obvious.

When you try to move work where the stakeholders know what it is and what they're moving towards, at the same time, when you break down the work, the team can understand what they're working toward. A program manager would understand what they have to deliver in a particular timeframe. That kind of split, you could see. There's great visibility there. 

I really appreciate that Jira Align gives the concept or the functionality of what is called a work tree or a roadmap, which brings it all together and gives you a view of what the company or team is moving towards and who is contributing to what. The OKR experience is great.

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Tonia Spight-Sokoya - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Support for Third Party External SPM Lead Business Execution Consultant/PMP PM at Wells Fargo

It's easy to set up.

The solution is user-friendly, and it's very easy to use once you go through the guidebook. There's lots of great documentation. 

We can integrate with other solutions, like Azure, GitHub, Slack, et cetera.

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Amit Vaidya - PeerSpot reviewer
Global SAP Program Manager (Testing)/Release assurance manager at Schlumberger

Jira Align is an intuitive tool that features a roadmap view. This allows users to see the entire program they have set up, following sprint planning. The portfolio summary view provides a user-friendly interface for operational users such as the scrum team, the scrum master, and the product team. In addition, it provides a management dashboard for leadership to monitor progress. The tool enables viewing the entire roadmap for an epic, and users can drill down to the lowest level, the product backlog item.

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RaymondMasocol - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Infrastructure at Credit One Bank

There’s definitely the ability to manage larger initiatives that go across multiple projects. Otherwise, Jira in itself does not allow you to go across projects. You really have to manage several projects, however, you have nothing that aligns with them. You have to have Jira Align on top of Jira to have that capability.

The initial setup is very straightforward.

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Javad_Talebi - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud architect at Vodafone

In our workflow, we utilize a dashboard. Our product development backbone relies on two-week sprints. At the beginning of each sprint, we conduct a planning meeting to discuss and challenge the backlogs. Throughout the sprint, we conduct daily sessions to review code, ensure alignment with coding standards, and address any issues. Once all tasks are completed, we proceed with the deployment process.

We conduct daily requirement meetings to facilitate communication.

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Rahul-Bansal - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Team Lead at Intime

The most valuable features in Jira Align are the dashboard for tracking my team's work progress, which helps me monitor story movement, and the reporting feature to track time estimates versus actual work done. This reporting is crucial for sharing project progress with senior management. I also find the integration with various testing tools essential for ensuring proper test case management and traceability.

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RS
Director of Product at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

The tool helps us to stick with the timeline and budget of our projects. It also helps me to identify dependencies and red flags and intervene wherever possible. I have found the key metrics tab also useful. 

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Anuj Ojha - PeerSpot reviewer
Agile Consultant at benzne

We have a group of several teams, each working within agile teams. These teams are organized into various solution levels, and we also have portfolio-level views that we manage. The product has facilitated alignment between our business strategy and all teams by enabling strategic planning and backlog creation at a high level. We've implemented lean portfolio management, which involves lean budgeting and brainstorming on various epics. These epics are then assigned to the respective value streams. 

Jira is one of the most widely used tools in the market, and it has a vast amount of data already stored in it. Jira Align is crucial in orchestrating this data and providing valuable views and insights. However, it's essential for tools like Jira Align to offer configurable features. While complete customization might not always be feasible for enterprise-level tools, configurable features allow organizations to drive transformation accordingly. 

The feature I've found most valuable for improving my team's productivity is the Gantt chart view. It helps organize our backlog and track our progress toward achieving our goals. Additionally, the ability to connect dependencies within the tool has been very beneficial for us.

Jira Align offers a one-stop solution for managing projects and platforms. However, its biggest competitor could arguably be considered an Excel sheet.

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JS
Senior Lead Agile Coach at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product has good visualization capabilities and helps to see the different dimensions of a plan. 

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MA
Product Manager at Worex Technology

What I like about Jira is that I can easily keep tabs on the status of different issues and what the team is working on. It helps me see if there are any bugs or tasks that need attention before we move on to the next steps. Additionally, it is great for team collaboration. We can pass things back and forth smoothly, from the technical team to testing and the project manager. This way, everyone stays in the loop, and we get a clear view of how things are progressing in the project. It has become a really valuable tool for us.

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Eliane Arruda - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Communications and Sustainability Manager at CNH Industrial

Jira Align's most valuable feature is the view of strategic control reports for high-level directors.

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Stas Radionov - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Manager at FirmTec

We have a dedicated team to monitor the solution and keep everyone updated about the status of our environments, tools, and applications. The tool enabled everyone to see the status of each environment. Based on the availability, they could decide whether to use the environment at a particular time or set up some test sessions for a day and block the environment for themselves or the team for testing or maintenance. The board meetings took much less time to figure out where we would be at a point when we needed to do some activities. Everyone was aware of the status. We could be better prepared for the meeting.

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EJ
IT bp at KDR Corp

I found Confluence most valuable.

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SY
Sr Consultant at Capgemini

In my current organization, there are limited features that we have adopted. In my previous experience, the Portfolio and Structure feature in Jira is really valuable because it assists with forecasting for projects. 

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Hina Tufail - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Atlassian Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jira Align's most valuable features are the roadmap, the program board, and the reports.

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Vani Bandargal - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Manager at DXC

The epic linking part is the most valuable aspect of the solution. Of course, the story point where we give and it really gets displayed in the scrum board. It helps us a lot.

The reporting structure is great. It has a good burndown chart. Those are really good.

It's quite straightforward to set up. It's very user-friendly.

Support responds very quickly.

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Kaleefa  R - PeerSpot reviewer
Business and Functional Specialist at Danske IT and Support Services India Pvt Ltd

The most valuable features of the solution are Jira Align's dashboards and its ability to build customized reports because we have multiple teams here. Multiple people work on the same big chunk of activity, usually broken down into many tasks. With Jira Align, we get to know what task is assigned to which employee while analyzing the workload and identifying what is still pending, what is in process, and what or how many tasks were completed, which is helpful for us to manage a project. To manage our day-to-day activity, dashboard and reporting features are the most helpful.

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Yogesh Kapse - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Sales Manager at ESDS Software Solution Pvt Ltd.

Jira Align is an easy-to-use and user-friendly solution.

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Sravan G - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at Resolve Technology, Inc.

Defect tracking and dashboards are the most valuable features of Jira Align.

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GG
Enterprise and Team Agile Coach, Jira Align implementation SME

Being able to do PI planning, using the program levels is most valuable. I find that the program-level reporting is most useful.

However, I believe that each user would answer the question differently as it's a complex software used by many users. 

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SR
Chief Technology Officer at Ongil Private Limited

I like the solution's ability to create a backlog and in the latest version, the epic view is very useful, you're basically creating a backlog and then dragging and dropping into the sprint. It's very cool. I also like the velocity and the reporting which provides good visibility, burndown charts, and particularly velocity measurement. I've found their email integration very useful and they have a configurable way of adding attributes. They have some of the mandatory fields, some of which are more advanced. The solution has an easy learning curve with the good documentation they provide. For power users, it's very useful.

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JC
Principal Consultant at Great Cloud Admin

The tool helps us with better tracking across various departments. Jira Align is highly valuable for organizations due to its flexibility. With my experience as an administrator, I can attest that it can be tailored to meet the diverse needs of any organization. It helps to eliminate the mess created by Excel spreadsheets. 

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AbhijitUpadhyaya - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior QA Engineer at Calsoft

I have been using the tool to write test cases, prepare test plans, and create bugs. I like the way the UI functions.

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GK
Project Manager at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

The most valuable features are the ability to customize the entries and to update them quickly. Since the new version they released, we started utilizing the customization features to create specific codes and symbols for our teams that were not available before. For example, in team A each person had their own symbols and we had our own demarcation. When our project or task was completed, we had a code that we could enter online that let the main project managers know that it was time to remove it.

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KH
Systems Engineer at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics

The most valuable feature is that engineers can access the Jira database and just search for the tasks that are assigned to them. They can then update the status on their own in those records that are assigned to them. 

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OC
Domain Specialist Team Leader at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product's most valuable feature is CMDB for services desk management and backlog projects.

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Juan Pablo Barragán - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner and Principal at Odoo Concept

I like Jira's structured project plan, with tasks and subtasks. Jira can use various external plugins. Third-party providers can add new features to the solution. If I need some functionality, I can usually find an app for it. They have thousands. 

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Assyr Carvalho Junior Carvalho Junior - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect Leader at e-Core

The most valuable feature of Jira Align is the overall team vision.

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Nitin Kawale - PeerSpot reviewer
Member Board Of Directors at Pattern

The most valuable features of Jira Align are its product roadmap and reporting.

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GK
Project Manager at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

I like how things can be sorted out, and it shows the different objectives one can do. You could also create a team view that would allow your team to see work outcomes. Jira Align also helps with the reporting, because we can export data to Excel or another format.

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KK
Sr Associate at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees

Align enables the capture of all capabilities and that's its best feature. It's easy for management to track everything inside of that.

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AC
Solutions Architect Leader at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Some of the most valuable features are the configurations and dashboards.

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Buyer's Guide
Jira Align
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Jira Align. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.