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Using Jira Align to Implement SAFe

As the SAFe framework continues to grow in popularity, more companies are discovering that they need proper tooling to become an agile enterprise. With a deep understanding of the complexities and interdependencies associated with SAFe, Atlassian has a significant objective to become the tool provider of choice for organizations practicing or pursuing agile-at-scale. This workshop showcases how Atlassian tools – specifically Jira Align – answer these needs better than any competitor.

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.

Available formats for this course

In-Person

Live Online

Private Team Training

Duration

1 day/8 hours of instruction

Education Credits

6 PDUs

Public Classroom Pricing

Starting at: $795(USD)

$1050(CAD)

GSA Price: $580.35

Group Rate: $795

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Section 1: Introduction to Jira Align for SAFe Organizations

The opening section will set the groundwork for SAFe and Jira Aligns support of the framework.

Section 2: Portfolio Management

In this section we will review LPM concepts and practices from the perspective of Agile Portfolio Operations and Lean Governance as described by SAFe. Starting with a demonstration of Strategy & Investment Funding, we will look at how strategic goals and their alignment to Strategic Themes help the APMO/LACe and train leaders make decisions.

The participants will then complete the following guided exercises to understand Lean Portfolio Management concepts and how Jira Align supports each.

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

Section 3: 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, aligned to a parent and
- Estimation
- Kanban column view – pull top features – to get to "close velocity"

Section 4: 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

Section 5: 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

Anyone seeking to use the SAFe model to scale agile to the enterprise
Organizations with established agile practices at the team level
Organizations with more than three agile release trains that are seeking to gain strategically-aligned delivery across the organization.
Program and portfolio managers
PMO Directors
Transformation leads
SAFe leaders and stakeholders
Agile leads
Business Intelligence and reporting staff in the agile practice
Administrators and tooling leads

Recognize how Jira Align supports the SAFe framework
Apply LPM concepts and practices
Create roadmaps to better track progress and customer satisfaction
Manage backlog requests and just Jira Epics to rank priorities
Prepare PI simulations
Implement the proper setup of JIRA for SAFe
Utilize reports from the PI simulations to make informed decisions

Jean Henson