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Jira Align Case Study
This case study of Dimension Data – NY is based on a February 2019 survey of Jira Align customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.
“Jira Align makes it easy to relate to SAFe best practices. It has a great team view for Jira and enables higher level PI Planning.”
The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Jira Align:
The key features and functionalities of Jira Align that the surveyed company uses:
The surveyed company achieved the following results with Jira Align:
Jira Align Case Study
This case study of a large enterprise computer services 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.
With Jira Align, we are able to increase visibility and transparency across our company by using the Jira Align Program Board; easily link features to our PI-Objectives and leverage detailed EPIC Fields to drive collaboration across our organization.
The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Jira Align:
o Need for a single tool to support C-suite directed SAFe initiative and rollout
o To gain more robust agile portfolio capabilities
o To gain visibility above the team level
The key features and functionalities of Jira Align that the surveyed company uses:
• Required a tool that integrated with Jira above the team level
• Designed to let the teams use the tools they want without any disruption to their work in process
• Requested a platform that could scale throughout the organization
Evaluated the following vendors before selecting Jira Align
o IBM Rational
o Atlassian Jira Portfolio
The surveyed company achieved the following results with Jira Align:
- Increased the productivity of their software teams by 10-20%.
- Realized impactful benefits within 6 – 9 Months after implementation was complete.
- Accelerated framework (SAFe, Scrum@ Scale, etc) implementation
- Drove top to bottom visibility and transparency
- Enabled Better PI/Program planning capabilities
Jira Align’s capabilities compared to the competition:
- project and program portfolio: significantly better
- product roadmapping: significantly better
- integration w/3rd party tools: significantly better
- scrum team support: significantly better
Rated Jira Align’s product capabilities compared to the competition:
- performance: significantly better
- ease of use: significantly better
- reliability: significantly better
- scalability: significantly better
- user interface: best in class
Jira Align Customer Testimonial
The ease of use and the structural layout follows the logic of the SAFe framework, which makes it easier to follow and understand where to look for certain features. Plus, the program board and team rooms allow for an overview per iteration or over multiple PI’s, which conveniently shows you issues at a quick glance.
— ScrumMaster, Large Enterprise Computer Services Company
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