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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 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 Fact

Realize Benefits Quickly

After implementation of Jira Align was complete, it took Charter Communications less than only one month to realize benefits.

Jira Align Customer Statistic

Best Scaling for Fortune 500

91% of surveyed Fortune 500 organizations rated Jira Align’s scalability compared to the competition as better.

91%

Jira Align Case Study

Global Technology Company, UK

Introduction

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

With Jira Align we have the ability to easily and visually link strategy to execution. It enables easy adherence to SAFe, and allows real-time visibility and reporting."

Challenges

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

They decided to look for a new Enterprise Agile Planning tool for the following reasons:

Digital transformation directive
Needed a tool to support SAFe or other scaled agile framework
To gain robust agile portfolio management solution
To gain visibility above the team level
To address lack of visibility into siloed organizations

Vendors evaluated before choosing Jira Align:

Atlassian Jira Portfolio Plugin

Use Case

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

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: very strongly agree
- Built for scale: very strongly agree
- Transformative: very strongly agree
- Outcome driven: very strongly agree
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
- Scrum team support: best in class

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Jira Align:

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
Confirmed that it took 1 – 3 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
- Reduced manual reporting/labor
- An ability to connect business strategy to technical execution
- Better PI/Program planning capabilities
- Clear communication leveraging realtime, integrated roadmaps
Agreed that Jira Align increased the productivity of their software teams by 20-30%.

Jira Align Customer Research

Realize Value Quickly with Jira Align

How long did it take to realize benefits from Jira Align after implementation was complete?

3 - 6 Months: 31%

1 - 3 Months: 30%

< 1 Month: 13%

> 18 Months: 9%

6 - 9 Months: 8%

9 - 12 Months: 5%

12 - 18 Months: 3%

TechValidate Research on Jira Align

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Top Team Tools Used With Jira Align

Fidelity Investments

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

Realize Benefits Quickly

Best Scaling for Fortune 500

Global Technology Company, UK

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

Realize Value Quickly with Jira Align

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