Taming the Jira Wild, Wild, West

Agile has taken hold in your organization, and your teams are self-managing and using Jira. But when you ask them for a simple status report, you get something very different from each team. They talk about Epics, Features, Initiatives, Enhancements, Stories, and Tasks. Some show velocity metrics and others have throughput and lead times. There is no consistency, which makes decisioning difficult.

At the same time, every agile team has their own ecosystem of work item types, workflows, fields, and screens. You purchase Apps and pay a licensing fee for every Jira user despite only a couple of teams actually using the App. The costs to support this ecosystem goes beyond licensing. To support every team’s independent ecosystem and ways of working requires a small army of Jira Admins to constantly make changes to support every team.

As these problems pile up, it can cause real issues for visibility, decision-making, support, and cost management. Sound familiar? Join us and learn how you can tame the Jira wild, wild, west.

You’ll discover our Jira Kickstart solution - an architected, templated scheme that introduces standards to your organization based on Agile industry best practices. You’ll learn how to transform Jira so that you go from:

• A disconnected set of independent Jira projects to a Team of Teams working together.
• Everyone doing their own thing in independent mini-ecosystems to templated constructs that allows Team-level autonomy while supporting a standardize single ecosystem.
• A large team of Jira Administrators to 2.5 Jira Administrators for 5000 users.
• Being unable to provide reliable reports to producing apples-to-apples data in aggregated tools like Clarity and Apptio.

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