TechValidate Research on Jira Align

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34 Published TechFacts

3 Published Charts

9 Published Case Studies



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Jira Align Case Study

Multinational Enterprise Retail Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise retail company is based on a February 2019 survey of Jira Align customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Jira Align is responsive, easily manageable and allows me in realtime to quickly identify my team’s dependencies and the status of their Stories.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Jira Align:

  • Too too many tools in place to effectively manage software delivery
  • To gain visibility above the team level

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Jira Align that the surveyed company uses:

  • Integration with Jira above the team level
  • Ability to measure value delivered with real-time data and reporting, instead of guessing, to effectively decide what to build next.
  • A platform that could scale throughout the organization

Vendors evaluated before choosing Jira Align:

  • Atlassian Jira Portfolio Plugin

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Jira Align:

  • Increased the productivity of their software teams by more than 40%.
  • Realized impactful benefits within 3 – 6 Months after implementation was complete.
  • Accelerated the SAFe implementation across the company
  • Drove top to bottom visibility and transparency
  • Enabled Better PI/Program planning capabilities
  • Reduced manual reporting and labor
  • Increased collaboration and communication leveraging real-time, integrated roadmaps
  • Jira Align capabilities compared to the competition:
    • Performance: best in class
    • Ease of use: best in class
    • Reliability: best in class
    • Scalability: best in class
    • User interface: best in class
  • Jira Align’s capabilities compared to the competition:
    • SAFe Support: best in class
    • Project and program portfolio: best in class
    • Product roadmapping: best in class
    • Integration w/3rd party tools: best in class
    • Scrum team support: best in class

Jira Align Case Study

Fidelity Investments

Introduction

This case study of Fidelity Investments is based on a February 2019 survey of Jira Align customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Jira Align’s top benefits are a consolidation of tooling, built-in reporting, and other robust features.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Jira Align:

  • Decided to look for a new Enterprise Agile Planning tool for the following reasons:
    • Digital transformation directive
  • Vendors evaluated before choosing Jira Align:
    • Collabnet/VersionOne
    • Atlassian Jira Portfolio Plugin

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Jira Align that the surveyed company uses:

  • Integrates the following tools with Jira Align:
    • Jira
  • Level of agreement that Jira Align is:
    • Designed to let the teams use the tools they want without any disruption to their work in process: agree
    • Built for scale: agree
    • Transformative: agree
    • Outcome driven: agree
  • Jira Align’s capabilities compared to the competition:
    • SAFe Support: better
    • Project and program portfolio: better
    • Product roadmapping: better
    • Integration w/3rd party tools: better
    • Scrum team support: better

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Jira Align:

  • Jira Align capabilities compared to the competition:
    • Performance: better
    • Ease of use: better
    • Reliability: better
    • Scalability: better
    • User interface: better
  • Confirmed that it took 3 – 6 Months to realize benefits from Jira Align after implementation was complete.
  • Operational benefits their organization realized following the implementation of Jira Align:
    • They were able to create consistency/collaboration across the organization
    • Accelerated framework (SAFe, Scrum@ Scale, etc) implementation
    • Top to bottom visibility and transparency
    • Better PI/Program planning capabilities
  • Agreed that Jira Align increased the productivity of their software teams by 20-30%.

Jira Align Customer Research

Top Team Tools Used With Jira Align

Select which team tools you integrate with Jira Align.

Jira
74%
None – we use Jira Align team’s tool
19%
GitLab
9%
TFS/ Azure DevOps (FKA VSTS)
4%
RTC
1%
CA Agile Central/Rally (now Broadcom)
0%
Collabnet/VersionOne
0%
Other
4%

Jira Align Customer Statistic

100% of surveyed organizations who previously evaluated Collabnet/VersionOne rated Jira Align’s scalability compared to the competition as better.

100%

Jira Align Customer Research

Telecom Survey Reveals High Productivity Increases

By what percentage did Jira Align increase the productivity of your software teams?

Greater than 40%: 21%
30-40%: 14%
20-30%: 17%
10-20%: 21%
Up to 10%: 28%

Jira Align Customer Statistic

IT Professionals Vote Jira Align Top in Reliability

87% of surveyed IT professionals at organizations rated Jira Align’s reliability compared to the competition as better.

87%


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About Jira Align

After two decades of learning how to build software with agile, the way we do agile in large enterprises still feels painful. Tools and processes are still too disparate. Insights still arrive too slowly. Collaboration is still inefficient. That is, until now. With AgileCraft you can put the right information, at the right time, into the hands of the people that use it to collaborate and make decisions.

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