Jira Align Fidelity Investments

Jira Align Case Study

Fidelity Investments

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.”

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

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

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%.