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4 features you asked for from Jira Software
Since our early days, we’ve encouraged customers to share feedback and suggestions for improving Jira Software through our feature request site.The Jira Software team recently closed out some of the highest voted requests as part of Jira Software Server 7.2, including a few that you’ve been patiently waiting on for some time. Thanks for helping us get […]
4 ways prototyping untangles your product requirements
As a writer with over 10 years of experience in product management, Germaine loves to share resources that help agile PMs. Check out her recent ebook Prototyping for Product Managers. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a prototype must be worth a hundred thousand pages of a requirements document. While a requirements […]
How to build a kick-ass agile team
Despite sharing common values, there is no formula for the perfect agile team. Some implement scrum while others use kanban. Agile purists prefer co-located teams, but business realities sometimes necessitate distributing an agile team across geographies. Most agile teams possess all the required skills, but sometimes it’s necessary to call on specialists for specific work. So how do you know whether your team is on the path to greatness? Read on.
Portfolio for Jira meets kanban
No matter what agile framework your team uses, Portfolio for Jira can forecast a realistic roadmap for your product or project. In our blogs about Portfolio for Jira, we’ve focused heavily on Scrum methodology, but lately we’ve been getting more questions about how kanban can be planned in Portfolio for Jira. So lets see how […]
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 […]
Are you truly DevOps? Find out how your team compares in the 2016 State of DevOps report
This year, more than 4,600 technical IT and DevOps professionals from around the world shared their experiences in the Puppet Lab’s 2016 State of DevOps Report, helping the industry deepen its understanding of the technical practices, cultural norms and lean management practices that make up DevOps. What’s more, having this type of information helps other teams using DevOps practices benchmark their performance compared with others. Learn more about DevOps and see how your team measures up.
Ideas to optimize your planning poker sessions
This is a guest post by Vitalii Zurian, a software engineer and the creator of a series of agile add-ons for Jira Cloud, including the #1 paid add-on, Planning Poker. Vitalli blogs at agilevalues.com. As your team matures and becomes more experienced, you’d think your estimates and planning poker sessions would improve as well. Seems […]
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 marketing: fad or future of marketing?
Can agile methodologies used to deliver products really help marketers in delivering campaigns? We think the answer is yes. In today’s world of constant customer feedback, marketers must be able to adjust their plans based on what’s trending in digital and social media. And with that, they need a better way to manage their marketing projects. That is why many are looking at agile marketing and methods such as scrum and kanban, to help.
Bridging the gap between content and design with wireframes
We all know that the success of any project hangs on having the right teams and processes in place. But sometimes, this can feel like an unreachable goal when it comes to the day-to-day of project management. However, establishing common techniques for communicating and transitioning assets can smooth out this process and create a better experience for everyone involved. One of these techniques centers around creating wireframes, or rough visualizations of a concept or user interface.
Try using mind maps to plan your next project
Mind maps are a great way for visual learners and thinkers to brainstorm ideas, plan out projects, and tap into the creativity of the team. Plus, they’re collaborative. You can work through ideas and problems together, going from initial ideas to formalized plan as a team. If you’ve felt frustrated at the start of a project, you gotta check out these 3 ways you can use mind maps in Confluence to go from concept to solid project plan.
Know thy customer: agile’s essential guide to user story maps
A story map is a visual representation of the journey a customer takes with a product, including activities and tasks they complete. Agile teams create the story map in a collaborative session to ensure they have a shared understanding of the customer and their desired outcomes. Today I’ll show you the basics of user story mapping and why it’s a worthwhile endeavour for your agile team.
6 steps to better release management in Jira
In a DevOps world, work is often merged to master multiple times a day, but it’s not always easy to know when changes ship. Developers have full control over deploying their changes to customers which makes it extra important that those changes are tracked. The good news is that teams can automate much of this process using Jira or Jira Service Desk. Here are six actionable steps for better release management in the Jira platform.
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.