Scaling Agile with Jira Align

A practical guide to strategically scaling agile across teams, programs, and portfolios in enterprises

Dean MacNeil , Aslam Cader 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2020년 11월 27일 출간

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Accelerate business value delivery with Jira Align, the enterprise agile planning platform, by connecting strategy with execution to maximize outcomes

▶Book Description
Jira Align is a platform purpose-built for enterprises to connect strategy with execution and drive transparency, consistency, and predictability at all levels of scale. The platform supports business value delivery in agile frameworks such as LeSS, DAD, and SAFe. It also caters to organizations that mix agile with waterfall to support scaled bimodal delivery.

Starting with an introduction to the platform and its features, this book takes you through the foundational building blocks of Jira Align. You'll learn how an organization can benefit from implementing Jira Align and understand how to connect dimensions such as people, work, time, and outcomes. The book takes you through the typical steps for implementing Jira Align for maximizing outcomes and helps you solve common team, program, and portfolio-level challenges by enhancing visibility, tracking dependencies and risks, and using reports for real-time, distributed decision making. Throughout the book, you'll explore features such as remote agile ceremonies, live roadmaps, and objectives and key results (OKRs). You'll also get to grips with lean portfolio management, financial reporting, and using the program board for planning and execution.

By the end of this book, you'll be well versed in the key features of Jira Align and be able to leverage them to support all levels of agile at scale.

▶What You Will Learn
？Understand Jira Align's key factors for success
？Find out how you can connect people, work, time, and outcomes with Jira Align
？Navigate and collaborate in Jira Align
？Scale team agility to the portfolio and enterprise
？Delve into planning and execution, including roadmaps and predictability metrics
？Implement lean portfolio management and OKRs
？Get to grips with handling bimodal and hybrid delivery
？Enable advanced data security and analytics in Jira Align

▶Key Features
？Improve coordination and transparency between multiple programs, products, and business portfolios
？Increase customer satisfaction by responding quickly to ever-evolving customer needs
？Deliver higher quality products faster and more predictably with real-time insights and OKR tracking

▶Who This Book Is For
This book is for portfolio managers, program managers, product managers, product owners, executives, release train engineers, and scrum masters who want to empower their teams to deliver the right things at the right time and quickly respond to changes in the market. Familiarity with agile frameworks and Jira Software is necessary; the book will teach you the rest.

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▶TABLE of CONTENTS
▷ Section 1: Preparing for Jira Align
？Chapter 1: Introducing Jira Align
？Chapter 2: Implementing Jira Align
？Chapter 3: Navigating Jira Align

▷ Section 2: Problem-Solving with Jira Align
？Chapter 4: Team Challenges
？Chapter 5: Program Planning Challenges
？Chapter 6: Program Execution Challenges
？Chapter 7: Enterprise and Portfolio Challenges

▷ Section 3: Special Use Cases and Add-Ons
？Chapter 8: Bimodal Development, Advanced Data Security, and Analytics

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▶What this book covers
？ Chapter 1, Introducing Jira Align, covers connecting with Jira Align, the ideal candidate for Jira Align, assembling the Jira Align Core Team, selecting a framework, and working with an Atlassian Solution Partner.

？ Chapter 2, Implementing Jira Align, covers analyzing existing programs in Jira, mapping people, work, time, and outcomes, setting up Jira Align, connecting to Jira, and extending to the portfolio.

？ Chapter 3, Navigating Jira Align, covers getting around Jira Align, facilitating onboarding, creating and refining backlogs, and collaborating in Jira Align.

？ Chapter 4, Team Challenges, covers ensuring that teams are connected, sizing stories with estimation games, loading sprints during remote planning, conducting ceremonies and meetings, and reviewing sprints and giving shoutouts.

？ Chapter 5, Program Planning Challenges, covers building product roadmaps, planning for value delivery as a program, organizing around value to reduce dependencies, and visualizing program velocity for planning and predictability.

？ Chapter 6, Program Execution Challenges, covers overseeing the program room, negotiating and visualizing dependencies, reducing waste, managing scope, and communicating progress.

？ Chapter 7, Enterprise and Portfolio Challenges, covers connecting strategy to execution, implementing lean portfolio management, and promoting innovation.

？ Chapter 8, Bimodal Development, Advanced Data Security and Analytics, covers developing products bimodally, handling time tracking, advanced data security, government reporting, and integrating with business intelligence and other solutions.

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▶ Preface
Every good agilist knows that individuals and interactions are valued over processes and tools. This first tenet of the manifesto endures two decades since its formation. Yet in today's world of digital disruption, the right practices and tools can mean the difference between surviving and thriving.

What if we told you about a tool that was built by agilists for agilists, supports all leading frameworks, enables you to scale agility from the team to the enterprise, and visualizes all key dimensions including people, work, time, and outcomes? Well, that tool is here, and it's called Jira Align.

This book serves as a foundation for those who are looking to begin their journey with Jira Align and a companion to those who already use Jira Align. Starting with an introduction to the platform and its features, you'll learn how to implement and leverage Jira Align to maximize outcomes and mitigate common team, program, and portfolio-level challenges in enterprises.

Get ready for a wealth of knowledge on this leading enterprise agile planning (EAP) platform. From running remote agile ceremonies, to generating live product roadmaps, to tracking objectives and key results (OKRs), you'll learn all the key features of Jira Align and how they support agility at every level of scale.

Thank you for joining us and may you find much success in your journey!

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저자(글) Dean MacNeil

Dean MacNeil has been passionate about agile practices and tools since before they were called “agile”, having pioneered a form of iterative and incremental product delivery at the world's leading music company in the mid-1990s. As an Atlassian Certified Consultant and Enterprise Agile Coach, MacNeil has helped companies of diverse sizes and verticals, including some of the world's largest and fastest-growing companies, to improve business agility and outcomes. MacNeil also writes about music and is a lifelong musician. He lives in Los Angeles where he enjoys hiking, biking, and sailing with his son.

저자(글) Aslam Cader

Aslam Cader is a software professional with over 10 years of experience working with teams at all levels to solve complex business problems while improving business productivity and agility. As an Atlassian Certified Consultant, Cader has helped companies standardize business processes around lean, agile, ALM, ITSM, DevOps and digital transformation programs. He is particularly passionate about scaling agile, governance, and best practices to support the scaled use of Atlassian stack, cloud and ecosystem solutions. He lives in London and enjoys traveling and time with his family.