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.
GSA: $1150 USD
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Full Course Details
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
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
- 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