High performance organizations compete and thrive by responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative and modern business solutions. In order to achieve Enterprise Agility, data has to flow seamlessly, starting at the top with strategy and goals set by leadership, all the way through execution to the delivery of value. This journey, however, is fraught with business challenges. Jira Align allows organizations to connect and align around common goals and objectives while providing actionable views and metrics to all stakeholders involved in the technology product lifecycle. Download Part 1 of our 3-part webinar series on achieving Enterprise Agility with Jira Align. Jesse Pearlman and Alan Furlong will provide insights and best practices on how to face common enterprise agility challenges and pitfalls head on. You will learn about: - What a connected enterprise is and how that drives agility - How businesses can refine product understanding, align corporate to product strategy, and optimize product roadmapping and planning - How to communicate a strategic plan to positively impact delivery

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2. Enterprise Agility with Jira Align Part 1:
Facing the Challenges Head On

3. SPEAKERS
Jesse Pearlman
Business Agility Consultant
Cprime
Alan Furlong
Head of Business Performance
Cprime

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5. AGENDA
01
CHALLENGES TO ACHIEVING ENTERPRISE
AGILITY
02
MAKING STRATEGY AND VALUE VISIBLE WITH
JIRA ALIGN
03
CONNECTING STRATEGY AND VALUE TO
EXECUTION
04 KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING/Q&A

6. Challenges to Achieving
Enterprise Agility

7. Scaling agility to the Enterprise is fraught with
challenges that have been well documented.
We’ll be focusing on three of the most common
ones that are faced once the decision to scale
agile to the Enterprise is made.
Lack of Visibility into
• Vision and Mission
• Strategies
• Value Flow
• Framework
• Processes
THE THREE COMMON CHALLENGES ENTERPRISES FACE

8. Not Focused on Value Delivery
• Project/Program focused
• No clear Portfolio/Product Vision
• Lacking Meaningful Metrics
• Siloed Operations
THE THREE COMMON CHALLENGES ENTERPRISES FACE

9. Failure to Train on
• The Change and it’s reason
• The Framework and it’s value
• Its Processes and it’s value
• The Agile Tools and their value
THE THREE COMMON CHALLENGES ENTERPRISES FACE

10. Making Strategy and Value Visible
with Jira Align

11. THE STRATEGIC VIEWS IN JIRA ALIGN
The first session in our summer LPM Webinar series dealt with making strategy visible as a key
means of bringing greater alignment to your organization.
Jira Align brings the necessary visibility and following alignment to any enterprise
• Strategic Backlog
• Work Tree
• OKR Tree
• Strategy Room

12. THE STRATEGIC VIEWS IN JIRA ALIGN
The first session in our summer LPM Webinar series dealt with making strategy visible as a key
means of bringing greater alignment to your organization.
Jira Align brings the necessary visibility and following alignment to any enterprise
• Strategic Backlog
• Work Tree
• OKR Tree
• Strategy Room

13. THE STRATEGIC VIEWS IN JIRA ALIGN
The first session in our summer LPM Webinar series dealt with making strategy visible as a key
means of bringing greater alignment to your organization.
Jira Align brings the necessary visibility and following alignment to any enterprise
• Strategic Backlog
• Work Tree
• OKR Tree
• Strategy Room

14. THE STRATEGIC VIEWS IN JIRA ALIGN
The first session in our summer LPM Webinar series dealt with making strategy visible as a key
means of bringing greater alignment to your organization.
Jira Align brings the necessary visibility and following alignment to any enterprise
• Strategic Backlog
• Work Tree
• OKR Tree
• Strategy Room

15. THE STRATEGIC VIEWS IN JIRA ALIGN
The first session in our summer LPM Webinar series dealt with making strategy visible as a key
means of bringing greater alignment to your organization.
Jira Align brings the necessary visibility and following alignment to any enterprise
• Strategic Backlog
• Work Tree
• OKR Tree
• Strategy Room

16. A Strategic Roadmap provides a cohesive view of the Enterprise Strategies
as they are being pursued by the delivering Value Streams.
The Roadmap allows portfolios to understand where they can apply Epic
levels of value that support the continuing delivery of Strategic Themes
• Month by Quarter View
• Portfolio Epics by Strategic Theme
Jira Align allows a robust view into the Lifespan of the Strategic Themes
and their supporting Portfolio Epics via the Strategic Roadmap
• Progress is displayed on the Roadmap
• Health can be displayed
• Target Start and Stop Dates can be displayed
• Time horizon is customizable
THE STRATEGIC ROADMAP

17. A Strategic Roadmap provides a cohesive view of the Enterprise Strategies
as they are being pursued by the delivering Value Streams.
The Roadmap allows portfolios to understand where they can apply Epic
levels of value that support the continuing delivery of Strategic Themes
• Month by Quarter View
• Portfolio Epics by Strategic Theme
Jira Align allows a robust view into the Lifespan of the Strategic Themes
and their supporting Portfolio Epics via the Strategic Roadmap
• Progress is displayed on the Roadmap
• Health can be displayed
• Target Start and Stop Dates can be displayed
• Time horizon is customizable
THE STRATEGIC ROADMAP
Epics by
Strategic Theme
Month by Quarter
Strategic Theme
Portfolio Epics
Yearly Horizon

18. Connecting Strategy and Value to
Execution

19. PORTFOLIO EPICS – THE DETAILS
A Portfolio Epic is intended to
capture a significant amount
of value to be delivered to the
market within 6 months to
approximately two years
It is intended to provide all
the necessary information
needed by the Portfolio/Value
Stream to validate its
alignment to strategy, the
technical ability to delivery,
the costs, intended benefits,
and its measurable outcomes

20. PORTFOLIO EPICS – LIFECYCLE
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It ensures that all necessary
governance and compliance
needs are met before the
teams begin to develop code
Jira Align Process Flows
• Configurable steps
• Notifications on
step transition
• Drives data integrity
• Compliance and
Governance in one view
The Portfolio Epic Lifecycle identifies the steps and criteria that the Portfolio Epic
needs to pass through and meet for funding and alignment to the Programs/trains

21. Facing the Challenges
with Jira Align

22. At the start of this presentation, we discussed
the 3 main challenges organizations face once
they have decided to take on the task of
transforming and scaling their enterprise.
We also showed how Jira Align starts to
resolve those challenges
• Strategic Backlog
• Work Tree
• OKR Tree
• Strategy Room
• Strategic Themes
• Portfolio Epics
• Process Flows
FACING THE CHALLENGES WITH JIRA ALIGN

23. In our Next Session…

24. IN OUR NEXT SESSION
Look forward to learning how Enterprises can establish and radiate
their scaling agile framework and processes, build robust backlogs,
understand how and what can be committed to a planning period, and
how to radiate the intended Risks, Dependencies, and Objectives that
are driven from such large planning sessions.
You’ll also understand just how Atlassian’s Jira Align works with
Enterprises to make all the relevant data visible and actionable

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• Check out Cprime upcoming webinars, read our blog, download
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• www.cprime.com/resources
• Share with us what topics you are interested in, ask us questions or
give us feedback!
• learn@cprime.com
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29. SCALING THE ENTERPRISE WITH JIRA ALIGN
Executive
Strategic Initiatives
Investment Prioritization
Execution Status
MVV
Fiduciary Rollup
Execution Transparency
Portfolio Owners
Enterprise Architect
Epic Owner
Strategy & Investment Funding
Demand Management
Budgeting (Optional)
Strategic Themes
Epic Business Cases & Kanban
Epic Backlog
Epic Business Cases & Ranking
Solution Portfolio Manager
Enterprise Architect
Solution Engineer
Prioritize Enablers & Capabilities
Synchronize Value Streams
Deliver Solution Demo
Capability Backlog
Release Train Engineer
Systems Engineer
Product Manager
Roadmap Planning
Release Planning
ART Sync:
PO Sync, Scrum of Scrums
Backlog & Backlog II
Program Increments & Releases
Program Board
Dependency Maps
Agile Teams
Product Owner
Scrum Master
Backlog Refinement
Sprint Planning
Tasking & Estimation
Daily Standup
Sprint Review and Retro
Sprint Planning Meeting
Daily Standup Meeting
Sprint Retro
ENTERPRISE
PORTFOLIO
SOLUTION
PROGRAM
TEAM
TEAMS & ROLES CEREMONIES & ACTIVITIES JIRA ALIGN SUPPORT

30. SCALING JIRA WITH JIRA ALIGN
Jira Align
Team Backlog and
sprint management
Project Planning,
Forecasting,
Dependency, Release
Management
EPMO/ Portfolio/ARTs
Teams
Jira
Data
Sync
• PM creates Features in Jira Align
- Integration with Jira pushes
down work to Train level project
(Jira Epics)
• PO creates stories in Jira Align,
assigns work to team’s project
- Pushed down to Team Jira Project
from Jira Align
• Team members creates stories and
tasks in Jira
• Team members complete work in Jira
• Scrum Master or team members
create sprints
• Scrum Master / team start and
stop sprints on Jira Boards
- Pulled up from Team Jira Project
to Jira Align

31. JIRA FOUNDATION Best Practices for Scaling Jira & Jira Align
Epic Feature Epic Feature
Feature Feature
Planning Increment (PI)
Sprint
Story
Story
Sprint
Story
Story
Sprint
Story
Story
Story Story Story Story
Team Project
Story
Subtasks
Bugs
Board
Sprint
Board
Sprint
Team Project
Story
Subtasks
Bugs
Epic
ID Link
Program Project
Jira Jira Align
Jira Projects align to Jira
Align Program
Jira Board
FEEDS to
Users and
Sprints
Jira Epics become Jira Align features
Jira stories become Jira Align stories
As part of the program backlog