Be SAFe in
your Jira
Welcome to Agile Hive, your go-to resource for maximizing the potential of your Atlassian Jira with powerful add-ons and advanced methodologies applying SAFe in Jira.
On this page, you’ll find comprehensive guides, actionable tips, and expert insights of using Jira, tailored specifically for enhancing your agile workflows with Agile Hive.
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Introduction to Agile Project Management with Jira
Agile project management is a methodology that promotes iterative development, collaboration, and flexibility. Jira supports agile practices through various tools that help teams manage their workflows efficiently.
Whether you are following Scrum, Kanban, or a hybrid approach, Jira provides robust features to support your agile processes.
The benefits of using Jira for agile project management include improved transparency, better team collaboration, and the ability to adapt quickly to changes.
With Jira, you can easily track progress, manage backlogs, and ensure that all team members are aligned with project goals.
Detailed Steps for Agile Planning in Jira
Effective agile planning in Jira involves several key steps.
Start with capacity planning to determine your team’s available resources. Use Jira’s capacity planning features to forecast work and ensure that team members are not overloaded.
Next, move to sprint planning by creating sprints, defining goals, and allocating tasks from the backlog. Utilize Jira’s sprint boards to visualize and manage tasks.
For release planning, create a roadmap that outlines major milestones and delivery dates. This helps keep the team focused on long-term objectives while managing day-to-day tasks.
Using Agile Hive for Enhanced
Jira Experience
Agile Hive significantly enhances Jira’s capabilities, especially for largescale agile frameworks like SAFe®. It provides additional tools for managing complex projects and multiple teams.
With Agile Hive, you can create detailed roadmaps, manage dependencies across teams, and align work with organizational goals. It also offers advanced reporting features that give you deeper insights into ART performance.
By integrating Agile Hive within Jira, you can streamline your agile processes, improve collaboration and implement agile project management. This team and technical agility is also a basic requirement in the SAFe® framework.
Master Agile Project Management and SAFe in Jira with Agile Hive
Introduction to Capacity Planning in Agile Hive
Capacity planning is a critical aspect of project management that involves forecasting the amount of work your team can handle during a given period. Agile Hive facilitates this by allowing you to set team capacity and track work allocation.
Proper capacity planning ensures that your team is neither overburdened nor underutilized, leading to better productivity and morale. By using Jira’s estimation e.g. with Story Points or Working Hours, you can visualize workload distribution and make informed decisions about task assignments.
Agile Hive enhances these capabilities by providing more detailed insights into resource utilization and enabling better coordination across multiple teams. Furthermore, it is possible to see therefor planned capacities in Agile Hive‘s Planning Boards and Roadmaps.
Short Tips for effective resource planning
Effective resource planning involves balancing workloads, tracking resource availability, and ensuring that tasks are assigned based on team members’ skills and capacities.
Advanced Roadmaps is now Jira Plans
The new feature Jira Plans replaces Jira Work Management and Advanced Roadmaps. It combines the strengths of both tools to provide a comprehensive planning solution. Unlike Jira Work Management, which is tailored for business projects, and Advanced Roadmaps, which focuses on detailed software project roadmaps, Jira Plans offers a unified interface.
It features enhanced flexibility, improved collaboration, and greater visibility, making it easier to create, navigate, and manage plans across various project types.
Using Agile Hive to Improve Estimations
Agile Hive also facilitates better collaboration by integrating with Jira’s communication tools, enabling real-time discussions during planning sessions.
By leveraging Agile Hive’s features, you can make your planning poker sessions more effective, leading to more accurate and reliable team and ART estimates.
Create the framework conditions in your organization with Agile Hive so that SAFe® can be implemented in Jira.
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