Course Overview

Led by a team of veteran AgileCraft and Jira Align practice leads, you will be guided through a dynamic project which unfolds as the workshop progresses.
You’ll learn how to use Jira Align to measure and manage key aspects of a complex agile initiative at scale – tracking budget, mapping to the key SAFe constructs, and integrating Jira into your organization.

Course Outline

→Introduction to Jira Align for SAFe Organizations

         • Create Portfolio Epics and associate them to (pre-created) Themes
         • Allocate portioned theme budgets to Portfolio Epics.
         • Manage Intake using the Portfolio Kanban Board
         • Students will move their Epic through the Portfolio Kanban, ensuring exit criteria Is met
         • Use the backlog to prioritize and rank Portfolio Epics – pulling rank from Themes and modifying the ranking of the Epics In the UI
         • 'Create' Roadmaps
         • Calendar View -aka 'planning view'
         • View Planned & Unplanned work, modify the views
         • Students will adjust epics and sync to the backlog
         • PI View – aka "health & reporting view' Students will
         • Update Health
         • Add Milestones
         • View by Product
         • Briefings views by customer

→Program/ART Management 

In this section, we will cover the 'heart' of SAFe. Connecting strategy to execution begins with prioritized set of portfolio epics, from there our architects and product managers create the execution plans. Participants will:

         • Decompose Portfolio Epics Into Features
         • Use backlog to rank Features (Jira Epics) Pulling rank from Epics –
         • Align features to Jira Projects for the train.
         • Watch as the feature syncs to Jira
         • Backlog Management
         • Ranking – Pull rank from the Epics, Prioritize the backlog and push the new rank to Jira
         • Orphan objects – using the orphan functionality to ensure all work is estimated and aligned to a parent
         • Estimation
         • Kanban column view – pull top features – to get to "close velocity"

→PI Simulations

         • Prepare for & conduct MOCK PI Planning
         • Select top 10 most Important features (pre-defined list)
         • Program Board – Pre PI-Load by PM/RTE role
         • Integration to /from Jira
         • The proper set up of Jira for SAFe
         • Class participants will be able to see stories from Jira Align, write to Jira
         • Class participants creating Feature (Jira Epics) or Stories in Jira
         • Dependencies – 2 per team
         • Risks – 1 per team
         • Objectives
         • Associate 1 to OKR (pre-existing)
         • Program Board View
         • Program Room
         • Monitor PI Progress using the Program Board
         • Show program board In flight – how to resolve problems

→Report on progress throughout the PI and across the portfolio

         • Work Tree
         • WIP
         • PIP
         • Scope Change
         • Risk report
         • Objective Report/tree
         • PI Progress Report
         • PI Clean up Report
         • Roadmaps
         • INv V Actuals
         • Investment Theme
         • OKR
         • Work Tree Strategy View