👉 Update: Portfolio by HeroCoders now includes Resource Requests, allowing you to plan for future demand and search for users with exactly the skills you need.
Jira excels in empowering teams to manage tasks in projects, but managers and product owners who oversee multiple teams and multiple projects can become overwhelmed. Jira, especially the standard plan, doesn’t offer a lot for tracking deadlines, dependencies, and deliveries across multiple projects.
You need a way to get a 360° view of your projects, to monitor workloads, spot risks and share your teams' challenges and accomplishments with other stakeholders.
Fortunately, there are solutions to be found in the Atlassian Marketplace, which offers a variety of apps to help managers get the Big Picture. But be warned, you may not want that picture to be too big, too difficult to use, or too expensive.
The Features You Need in a Simple UI
With literally thousands of project management apps available in the Marketplace, you want to fina an the app that has the features you need, and can grow with your teams. At the same time, apps that are too huge – with steep learning curves and steeper prices may be overkill.
Before you shell out the cash for BigPicture, consider the alternatives.
Portfolio by HeroCoders, a new offering in the PPM corner of the Atlassian Marketplace, makes it easy to plan work, track progress, and balance workloads. And you won’t have to spend months learning to use Portfolio. It’s so simple you can just install and get started.
That being said, choosing a Jira PPM tool isn’t just about feature lists — it’s also about how quickly you can onboard, how well the tool fits your teams' maturity needs, and finding a solution that fits your budget. Portfolio gives you the power to plan, track and manage your teams' workloads, at a quarter of the price of BigPicture.
