Original Research on Jira Align

Jira Align Customer Fact

Big Productivity Increases, Quickly

A large enterprise health care company agreed that Jira Align increased the productivity of their software teams by more than 40% in only 1 – 3 months.

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%

Jira Align Case Study

Dimension Data

Introduction

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.”

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:
- Because their previous tool was too complicated/unreliable/didn’t scale
- Because they 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
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:

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: 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
- Integration w/3rd party tools: 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: significantly better
- Reliability: best in class
- Scalability: best in class
- User interface: significantly better
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
- Better PI/Program planning capabilities
Agreed that Jira Align increased the productivity of their software teams by more than 40%.

Jira Align Case Study

Medium Enterprise Professional Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise professional 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.

“Jira Align provides visibility, drives behavior/culture, and drives the importance of task description accuracy to achieve desired outcomes.”

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:
- Because they needed a tool to support SAFe or other scaled agile framework
- To gain robust agile portfolio management solution

Use Case

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

Integrates the following tools with Jira Align:
- GitLab
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:
- Project and program portfolio: 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: significantly better
- User interface: better
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
- An ability to connect business strategy to technical execution
- Better PI/Program planning capabilities
Agreed that Jira Align increased the productivity of their software teams by 10-20%.

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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 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%

TechValidate Research on Jira Align

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Selected Research Highlights

Big Productivity Increases, Quickly

Realize Value Quickly with Jira Align

Dimension Data

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

Medium Enterprise Professional Services Company

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

Top Team Tools Used With Jira Align

IT Professionals Vote Jira Align Top in Reliability

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