BigPicture for Teams

Fully understand the capabilities of BigPicture to help your organization navigate cross-organization, visibility, flexible structures, planning, progress tracking, measuring performance, and more.

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Overview

BigPicture is a top-selling project (and product) portfolio management app for Jira which comes equipped with a roadmap, ‘board’, ‘teams’, and ‘resources’ modules as well as a risk matrix and more. A versatile application, flexible enough to accommodate agile, agile-at-scale, and hybrid methodologies,

 

BigPicture offers to:

  • Grant unprecedented cross-organization, portfolio-level visibility of every initiative
  • Build a flexible work structure using any building block you can think of (portfolios, sub-portfolios, programs, projects, stages, SAFe® PIs
  • Plan objectives and tasks efficiently and execute them smoothly
  • Optimally allocate your resources, individuals, and teams
  • Monitor work and track progress
  • Aggregate values, measure performance and report with ease

This BigPicture training class helps companies fully understand the extensive capabilities of the app, get insights into best practices, and increase the overall proficiency of using the tool. Official BigPicture training is designed to create the optimum learning curve for understanding BigPicture capability – not just on the features of the tool, but on how best to apply it in your own organization.

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Full course details

Course outline

Part 1: BigPicture Basics

  • The building blocks of BigPicture
  • Best practices for navigating the BigPicture UI
  • Real-time synchronization between BigPicture and Jira
  • Getting comfortable with Boxes

Part 2: Fundamentals of BigPicture Gantt

  • Navigation
  • Scope
  • Column
  • Views
  • Populating the chart
  • Task Templates
  • Planning and Execution
  • Dependencies and Scheduling Modes
  • Milestones
  • Critical Path and Baseline
  • Aggregation on column views
  • Filtering and Sharing
  • Grouping

Part 3: Advanced Features of BigPicture Gantt

  • Importing and cloning data
  • Basic tasks
  • Resources
  • Infobar
  • Scenarios
  • Hierarchy builders

Part 4: Working with Teams

Part 5: Exploring the features of Teams and Resources

  • Working with BigPicture's Teams
  • Clear overview of a Resources workload
  • Allocation constraints in Resources
  • Optimizing and managing Resources
  • Skill-based planning
  • Workload and Holiday plans
  • Five ways of changing capacity

Part 6: Portfolio overview and Objectives

  • BigPicture Roadmap Fundamentals
  • Objective-driven planning

Part 7: Risk Management, Calendar Planning, and Backlog Grooming

  • Defining and managing risks
  • Using the calendar mode
  • Using the Scope module for backlog grooming

Part 8: Using Board 2.0 to scale Agile

  • Agile approach with multi-team capabilities
    • Planning
    • Execution
    • Team Capacities
    • Board Reports
    • Dependencies

Part 9: Reports and Administration

  • Security
  • Budgeting
  • Reports in BigPicture
  • Gadgets
  • Administration Features

 

Audience / prerequisites

Any team members involved in your organization’s projects or programs who want to get started using BigPicture or get better leveraging the features of BigPicture and JIRA.   

  • Team leaders
  • Project managers
  • Product manager
  • Portfolio managers
  • JIRA Admin
In this class you will learn how to

 

  • Understand the building blocks and best practices of BigPicture
  • Get the most out of BigPicture Gantt and how to Integrate that with JIRA
  • Perform resource management including allocation restraints and optimization
  • Use BigPicture Roadmap fundamentals
  • Use roadmaps to scale Agile
  • Configure BigPicture for Agile
  • Track projects with Gantt
  • Use portfolio view with BigPicture
  • Apply advanced administration practices

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