20210428 Atlassian Team2021 How a Well-Tuned Jira Can Change Everything For Your Team: Craeg Strong Ariel Partners

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The well-Tempered [Jira] Clavier: A poorly tuned Jira is a daily struggle for your team. Join this session to learn tips and tricks for making the Jira experience amazing for teams of any variety. We will show you how to turn all the knobs to 11 and create a state-of-the-art Jira experience. With the right care and feeding Jira can be a significant corporate asset that can help you transform your business. The streamlined interface reduces the learning curve and makes Jira a pleasure to use, which increases adoption. You get more people using Jira, putting better information into it. You get happier, more productive teams, reliable forecasts, and much more accurate information to make business decisions. We think Johann Sebastian Bach would approve.

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Craeg Strong
CTO, Ariel Partners
https://www.arielpartners.com
cstrong@arielpartners.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/cstrong
How a well-tuned Jira
can change everything
for your organization
Making the most out of your Jira Investment

MANY ORGANIZATIONS DO NOT GET
THE MOST OUT OF THEIR JIRA
INVESTMENT.
WHY?

Problem: A singular focus on cost reduction...
...rather than value optimization
We need to standardize our
workflows and make them
the same for all our teams A short standardized bootcamp
should be enough training to make
our entire organization Agile
As soon as we baseline
our Jira configurations,
we need to lock them
down

Think of Jira as the center of
your digital nervous system
How to leverage the power of Jira?

Rollout &
Adoption
Supporting
Different
Teams
Continuous
Improvement
Five Tips
Third Party
Ecosystem
Keeping It
Clean

Rollout & Adoption
Plan For Success
Implementation
Roadmap
Roles and
Responsibilities
Understand existing tools and
environment.
Identify needed configurations
and plugins.
Jira Admin
Project Admin
Project Admin
Project Admin
Project Admin
Jira Admin
Jira Admin Project Admin
Project Admin
Secure sufficient
administrative support.
Part-time Jira admin role on
every team.

Develop Project Templates
Scrum
Supporting
Different Teams
ABSS
Scrumban
AFEMS
Kanban
Depot Maintenance Accounting & Production System
DMAPS
Time & Attendance Team
Defense Information Financial Mgmt System Team
Integration Engine Team
DevOps Team
Scaled
ACES

Continuous
Improvement
Continuous Improvement
Add An
Issue Type
Review Document
Change A
Field
Update A
Workflow
Implement (5) Test (6)
Ready
For Test
Doing
Add A
Board
Delivery
Discovery

Third-Party
Ecosystem
Leverage Jira’s Rich Third Party Ecosystem
Backlog
Refinement
Story Mapping bridges the
gap between discovery and
implementation
Forecasting
With the right metrics, we can
use statistically valid methods
to make more accurate
predictions

Keeping It Clean
Librarian Dashboard
Run queries to find and fix tool debt and process debt
Keeps Jira neat and tidy
Otherwise, you cannot make reliable forecasts

References
Books
Jira Plugins
Actionable Agile Easy Agile Story Maps Color Cards for Jira
Scrum Guide Kanban Guide Story Mapping When Will It Be Done

Thank you! Craeg Strong
CTO, Ariel Partners
linkedin.com/in/cstrong/
cstrong@arielpartners.com
https://www.arielpartners.com

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