So you’ve got Jira or AzureDevOps (or any other team tooling solution).
Why on earth would you need BigAgile?
Turns out, there are quite a few key elements of delivery that BigAgile can help you with over and above what can be done with a team tooling solution. All the below core BigAgile functionality is either impossible to do, requires significant manual workarounds, or a number of expensive plugins in Jira
| ✅ Single, holistic view of entire programme delivery in one screen |
| ✅ Shows RAG status of features based on when they were planned to be released vs when they will actually be released |
| ✅ Shows completeness of features as a percentage based on stories or story points |
| ✅ Shows dependencies between features, dependencies between stories and features, and dependencies to milestones |
| ✅ Tracks Milestones and linked features and dependencies. Able to view status of all Milestones work items in single view |
| ✅ Shows you difference between original plan and current status and your predicted completion sprints |
| ✅ Work can quickly be filtered by product, project or team |
| ✅ Shows objectives to measure outcomes, not just outputs and these can be synced to Features |
| ✅ Integrated Risk management capabilities |
| ✅ Unlimited users |
| ✅ Summarises the programme in real-time so leadership do not need reports created … no powerpoint creation needed! |
| ✅ Shows a burn-up chart of total programme scope vs progress against this across multiple teams and multiple sprints |
| ✅ Product roadmap based on current capacity to forecast realistic delivery dates. Can forecast multiple quarters based on actual work delivered. |
| ✅ Integrated prioritisation – can prioritise the feature roadmap in the tool without requiring excel. For example WSJF, MosCow, etc |
| ✅ A single view of features and their status for all teams in the programme. Can be filtered by Programme, Team, Product, Status |
| ✅ Anyone in the organisation can create Features, without needing a Jira license (allows for live backlogs) |
| ✅ Provides an overview of the portfolio: number of programmes, number of teams, number of features … with MI on each. |
| ✅ Shows cycle time of features across all stages of the product pipeline |
| ✅ Shows WIP and context switching at the programme level |
| ✅ Snapshot of feature progression for each feature: * percentage to do * percentage in progress * percentage done |
| ✅ Shows and highlights scope creep across the programme * by feature * by team * by product |
| ✅ Calculates and displays flow metrics across the programme: * Flow Load (WIP by issue type) * Flow Distribution (percentage of work per month by issue type) * Flow time (Time to close by issue type) * Flow Velocity (number of issue types completed over a particular time) |
| ✅ Tracks progress of features against the organisational OKRs |
| ✅ True hierarchy beyond the team levels |
| ✅ Single view across multiple instances of Jira (on prem and cloud) and Azure Devops to aggregate the delivery view into one |
| ✅ Can see snapshots of the programme data for each historical quarter |
We’re not saying BigAgile will change your life … but it will definitely make it a whole lot easier!
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