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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.

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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%.

    Company Profile

    Company:
    Global Technology Company, UK

    Company Size:
    Large Enterprise

    Industry:
    Computer Services

    Source: Bronwyn Howard-Browne, Global Operations Director, Global Technology Company, UK
    Validated
      Published: Jun. 11, 2019   TVID: 0C4-AAD-2B0




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