Jira. How do you make it work better? How do you add functionality for better teamwork, planning, and, ultimately, differentiate your organization? There are many options. What’s the best path forward? Join us. We’ll explore how to transform Jira from a common issue tracking tool into a market differentiator that powers true agility. In this webinar, you’ll learn: -Key strengths & weaknesses of Jira. -Cost-effective ways to enhance Jira at scale. -How to empower enterprise agility (without 100 plugins). -How Hansoft can help.

1. How to Turn Jira
Into an Advantage

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Presenter
Johan Karlsson
jkarlsson@perforce.com
Product Evangelist, Hansoft
Perforce Software

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What You’ll Learn
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Jira Strengths
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2 Strategic Ways to Extend Jira
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Managing Plugin Cost at Scale

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• Familiarity
• Issue Tracker Focus — With Workflows
• Extensibility — Many plugins, including:
• P4V Suite (Jira --> Perforce Helix Core)
• Helix ALM for Jira
• Hansoft for Jira
Jira Strengths

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#1 Feature
Issue tracking
Structured Product
Backlog Management
Timeline ViewPortfolio Management
Time Tracking
Resource Overview
Cross-Project To-Do
Lists
Program Boards
(Visualizing
Dependencies)
Vacation Planning

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Is Jira Hiding the Elephant in the Room?

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Jira By Design
• Issues
• Short-term
• Individual or team
• Goals
• Mid- and long-term
• Cross-team alignment
Tracking In Focus Planning Is Blurry

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2 Ways to Extend Jira
1. Horizontally 2. Vertically
New Feature
Development
Operations and
Bug Fixing
Portfolio + Program
Team

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1. Horizontal — Simplify Tooling Ecosystem
Issue tracking
Structured Product
Backlog Management Timeline View
Portfolio
Management
Time Tracking Resource Overview
Cross-Project To-
Do Lists
Program Boards
(Visualize
Dependencies)
Vacation Planning
New Product Development

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Hansoft Deployment Options
1. Horizontally 2. Vertically
New Feature
Development
Operations and
Bug Fixing
Portfolio + Program
Team

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P E R F O R C E O N T O U R 2 0 1 8
Portfolio
Program
Agile Teams
Long-Term Planning (budgets, resources, strategic direction, etc.)
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PPT 1
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Bad Agile — Common Example That SAFe Can Fix
Issue tracking
Jira SoftwareConfluence

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P E R F O R C E O N T O U R 2 0 1 8
Portfolio
Program
Agile Teams
Bad Agile — Common Example That SAFe Can Fix
Issue tracking
Jira Agile
Structured Product
Backlog Management
Longer-term Planning Resource Planning
Custom Dashboards Product Management
Lean Portfolio
Management
Confluence

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1. Heavy on administration.
2. Requires external software.
3. Expensive to scale due to tiered pricing.
Jira Is Not Low-Cost

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Cost of Each Plugin Affects Scaling Up
Product 99 users 100 users
Jira Core $3,000 $5,500
Confliuence $3,500 $6,400
Servicedesk $16,500 $27,500
Plugin A $ A $ 2A
… … …
Plugin Z $ Z $ 2Z
Summary $ X ~$ 2X

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• Use Jira for its strengths (or simply its familiarity).
• Pick 1–2 strategically valuable plugins with deep integration to JIRA.
• Think vertically (to support new product development) or horizontally (to
support program/portfolio management).
Summary

16. Attend our next webinar on 1 November for concrete
examples on how to achieve this using Hansoft.

17. Questions?
Thank you very much for attending!

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