The Hidden Struggles of Jira Portfolio Management
Jira is an excellent tool for managing projects, sprints and tasks. However, as the number of projects you’re overseeing accumulate, trying to monitor multiple initiatives, projects and teams can become a challenge.
Atlassian does provide planning tools to help you get a bird's-eye view, but only in their Premium and Enterprise plans. If you’re using the Standard Jira plan, then you might struggle with:
Fragmented Visibility into your Jira Portfolio
The inability to simultaneously track progress on multiple Jira projects causes headaches for product owners, program managers and high-level stakeholders. Understanding how projects within the portfolio are interconnected and how changes in one might impact another is crucial to portfolio management. Failure to recognize dependencies increases delivery risks.
Suboptimal Resource Management
Balancing workloads, especially when the same teams work on multiple projects can be a challenge. Without robust capacity planning, deadlines can be missed, team members become overbooked and eventually experience burnout.
Limited Ability to Aggregate, Report and Share Data
Creating reports that span multiple projects often requires significant manual effort and aggregation of data, further depleting time available to manage the project. High-level stakeholders and decision makers engage in planning without the crucial insights that could be provided with better visibility into the Jira portfolio.
Making Jira Portfolio Management Easy
Fortunately, you don’t have to face these challenges on your own. Portfolio by HeroCoders, is the secure, easy-to-use, app that lets you easily define, view, and manage your Jira portfolio. Benefits include:
Unified, 360° Jira Portfolio Visibility and Accessibility
The ability to concurrently see all of your work in Jira allows you to plan and forecast with confidence. From a bird’s-eye view of the top of the hierarchy, down to the details on an individual work item, being able to see and edit (inline or bulk) work in Jira from one centralized view increases the efficiency of product owners and project managers. There’s no need to jump from one Jira board to another, or to migrate the data from a table to a graph. Portfolio simultaneously lets you see the big picture and instantly access the details of individual work items.
Built-in Jira Capacity Planning
As a team lead, you can maximize productivity and reduce burnout by managing work assignments. Portfolio flags over-bookings and delivery risks, allowing you to optimize how work is distributed. And when your teams perform beyond your expectations, simply drag and drop to assign new work items.
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Agile Planning with Enhanced Collaboration & Sharing
Provide leadership with the information they need to make solid decisions. Customize views and share them with teammates and stakeholders, knowing that any changes will be instantly reflected. Need to share with someone outside of Jira? Simply export the data as a export as CSV/XLSX file for deeper analysis or reporting.
Jira portfolio management doesn’t have to be a struggle. Built in Forge and completely integrated into Jira, Portfolio by HeroCoders empowers you to:
- See all of your work from the big picture to the tiny details.
- Plan confidently, knowing your team’s capacity.
- React proactively to alerts and live updates.
- Share and collaborate with teammates and high-level stakeholders.
