From Challenger to Champion: How SpiraPlan Outperforms JIRA+Plugins

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2 | 2/20/2024 © Copyright 2006-2024 Inflectra Corporation
Agenda
About Inflectra
Integration & Usability
Comprehensive Feature Set
Cost-Effectiveness & Efficiency
SpiraPlan Demo
Q&A

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About Inflectra?

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Inflectra Helps You Deliver
Quality Software,
Faster and with Lower Risk
Quality At Its Core:

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Inflectra Core Values
 Great Products: Build for Our Users Not Investors
 Building great software for customers, not chasing the latest fad.
 Great Team: We Just Get it Done
 Treat customers well, solve their problems, no drama or red tape.
 Great Workplace: Family and Life Flexibility
 Unlimited vacation, amazing benefits, flex/part time welcomed.
 Great Community: Enabling Second Acts
 Expanding opportunities for new/second careers in technology.

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Inflectra End to End Capabilities
Program
Management
IT Service
Management
Process
Automation
Exploratory
Testing
Integration
Services
Agile &
DevOps
Requirements
Management
Quality
Assurance
Risk
Management
Software
Development
Project
Management
Test
Automation

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SpiraPlan®
Agile Program & Portfolio Management
SpiraTeam®
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Introducing the Inflectra® Suite
SpiraTest®
Requirements, Test Management
& Bug Tracking
KronoDesk®
IT Support & Help Desk
Rapise®
Test Automation (Web, GUI, Services)
TaraVault® - Source Code Management
SpiraCapture™
Exploratory Testing

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Integration & Usability

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When A Single Point Of
Failure Is Not An Option
Quality At Its Core:

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Bridging Between Agile and Compliance
Support for Regulated Processes Modern, Agile Processes
• Baselining
• Risk Management
• Electronic Signatures
• Data Privacy
• Compliance
• Workflow
• Requirements Mgt
• On-Premise
• CI / CD
• Scrum
• Kanban
• Scaled Agile
• DevOps
• Distributed Teams
• Remote Working
• Cloud-Based

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Simplicity = Productivity from Day One
• Less Time Doing: • More Time Doing:
No plugins, customization or
configuration needed day one

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How SpiraPlan Compares With Jira?
https://www.inflectra.com/Jira-Alternative/

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If all you have is an ‘issue’ tracker…
Then everything is an issue…

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Project Management for Critical Systems
End-to-end
traceability out
of the box
Data Privacy,
Security
baked in
Requirements,
tests, code,
defects, plans all
in one place
Project & program
management for
agile, waterfall,
hybrid methods
Integration across
the software
value chain

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Comprehensive Feature Set

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SpiraPlan Features - Managers

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SpiraPlan Key Features - Developers

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SpiraPlan Key Features - Testers

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SpiraPlan – Methodology Agnostic
Agile Waterfall Hybrid

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Scaled Agile - Overview

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Program: Capabilities

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Program: Milestones

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Cost-Effectiveness & Efficiency

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Import / Conversion
Automation
Load Testing
Unit Testing
IDE CI/CD
Bug-Tracking
Detailed Integration List
Open Ecosystem – Over 70 Integrations

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Hosted Your Way
 On-Premise – Physical or Virtual Servers
 Private Cloud (PaaS)
 Amazon Web Services
 Microsoft Azure
 Inflectra Cloud (SaaS):
 Americas: USA & Canada
 Europe: Ireland & Germany
 Asia-Pacific: India, Singapore & Australia
 100% Feature Parity and API Compatibility

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JIRA Server Discontinued
Impact on your industry, company, team and project

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Challenges and Opportunities
Feb 2021
• New Server license sales end;
support continues
Feb 2022
• Upgrading or downgrading
existing user tiers ends
Feb 2023
• Existing customers can’t
purchase new server licenses
Feb 2024
• End of support
Improvement
Opportunity to
look at Tool Chain
Consolidate Tools
rather than invest
in multiple tools
Evaluate TCO
without the Cloud
Risks

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Alternatives to Jira for Project Management
Framework
Agnostic
Minimal
Learning Curve
Bidirectional
Traceability
Meets Business
and Technical
Stakeholders
Options for
Hosting
Integration with
Tools
Dashboard and
Views
Compliance &
Audit
Considerations
Custom
considerations
Concurrent
Users
Price
Sensitivity
Robust Support
Team

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Plugin Considerations
 Re-evaluate your toolchain based on Jira and all the plugin
‘technical debt’ may have accumulated over the years.

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Moving Off JIRA – Adam Sandman
Easily migrate from JIRA Server to SpiraPlan

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Smooth Transition: Tools & Service
Smooth Transition to the Inflectra platforms:
 Migration tools
 Migration assistance
 Implementation services
 Standard & custom training
 Solution Partner Network
 Unlimited technical assistance from Inflectra

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Easy Migration from Jira to Spira
https://www.inflectra.com/Ideas/Entry/how-to-export-
projects-from-jira-server-to-spira-1115.aspx

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Advanced Migration from Jira to Spira
https://github.com/Inflectra/spira-jira-migration-advanced
https://www.inflectra.com/Company/Article/inflectra-saab-and-tietoevry-ab-launch-an-
open-sou-1648.aspx

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Application Demo

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Questions?

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