Step-Up Agile with Jira
Enterprise Agile Service
Ricksoft provides implementation support and training based on Atlassian products Jira Software and Confluence to help you step up to an agile way of working.
Our solutions support the migration from traditional project management to agile “development teams” and organizations.
Solution Lineup
Enterprise Agile
Through changing times (advances and diffusion of information technology and changing customer needs), the style of development methods, their scale, and the people in the organizations involved have also changed.
In the past, waterfall development was the mainstay of development, with the goal of improving operational efficiency and customer convenience.
Later, agile development expanded, especially in the IT development sector, in order to respond to the diversification of customer needs and the violent changes in the market.
Currently, there is a growing movement toward large-scale Agile development, and toward organizational Agile (Enterprise Agile), which involves business people (management, sales, marketing, and operation service departments) other than IT development departments involved in products and services. The movement toward enterprise agile is gaining momentum.
Enterprise Agile Solution Lineup
As the development methods and scale, as well as the departments and people involved, change over time, the implementation of appropriate tools is an indispensable factor for the success of IT development departments and organizations.
Ricksoft's Enterprise Agile Service (Step-Up Agile with Jira) starts with Jira and gradually adds tools that match each transition, and by working together, we help organizations become agile without difficulty and effectively.
From Waterfall to Agile!
Jira Software can be used for traditional waterfall development and to-do and task management, Jira Software can be used for traditional waterfall development, to-do and task management, etc., but it works even better for teams working on agile development.
Jira Software can be used for traditional waterfall development, to-do, task management, etc., but it is even more effective for agile development teams. The integration of Bitbucket, an engineering automation tool such as Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
The most popular project management tool for agile teams.
The most popular project management tool for agile teams.
Agile teams develop and release software products and services.
Agile teams need tools that are easy to use and flexible.
- Scrum and Kanban support: Manage backlogs and enable progress tracking with Kanban boards.
- Agile reporting: burndown, team velocity, cycle time, and other useful reports are generated based on real-time data.
- Roadmap: Agile teams create epics (features) and stories and manage them in a backlog to drive agile development.
At the same time, it is possible to show a mid-term roadmap based on epics (features).
Supporting Communication for Agile Teams.
Supporting Communication for Agile Teams.
For agile teams, it is important to enhance teamwork and maximize information transfer and sharing through communication in order to respond to change and develop quickly. At the same time, it is necessary to document agile events and share knowledge as much as possible. Confluence is a very useful tool to promote efficient communication and information transparency.
- It can be easily created using templates.
- By storing documents in a central location that is easily accessible by all team members, you can avoid information fragmentation and find the latest information quickly.
- Integration with other tools allows information such as tasks, bugs, and user stories to be referenced directly in Confluence, and Confluence content can be linked as tickets in Jira.
Supporting Agile Teams in Code Management and Deployment
Supporting Agile Teams in Code Management and Deployment
Agile teams need to develop and deploy code quickly and efficiently, maintain high code quality, and improve transparency among teams. Bitbucket offers many features to support these requirements, making it a very useful tool for agile teams.
- Source code versioning has become essential to the development process, where agile teams make frequent changes, and Bitbucket facilitates this versioning.
- Use the pull request feature to simplify the process of reviewing code changes and providing feedback.
- Jira Integration with Jira Software and Confluence makes it easy to see relationships between tickets, documents, and source code, including tasks, bugs, and user stories.
Collaboration by multiple teams, for large scale product development.
In large-scale product development, a single agile team (10 people or less) may not be able to complete the project alone.
Therefore, multiple agile teams collaborate to release new product features in a short period of time to increase product value and customer satisfaction.
Jira A high-level mechanism is needed to manage the agile development that each team is executing on Jira Software from a bird's eye view, and to perform planning, product demonstrations, and review. The requirements and ideas for the product itself will also involve many stakeholders other than the IT development department. Non-IT people will also need to be involved in Agile, a little at a time, by collecting the voices of business departments and customers, analyzing them, and coordinating with them.
Advanced Roadmaps
Connecting organizations and multiple teams to enable them to achieve big goals.
Advanced Roadmaps
Connecting organizations and multiple teams to enable them to achieve big goals.
Available in the Cloud edition of Jira Software with the Premium plan and above, this feature supports the planning, coordination, and execution of large-scale product and service development involving many agile development teams and stakeholders. In addition to single team agile development, the tool can manage dependencies across multiple teams and departments, and create roadmaps that clarify the relationship from high-level product strategy and goals to specific tasks and user stories for each team.
- Visualize multiple projects and agile teams on a single screen, create long-term development roadmaps, and measure progress.
- Collaboration and dependencies between teams can be easily managed to optimize human resources.
- View each team's progress in real time, and consider and compare different planning scenarios when changes or adjustments are needed, helping you determine the best approach and strategy.
Gather and prioritize product ideas and connect business and development teams.
Gather and prioritize product ideas and connect business and development teams.
This tool is designed to effectively support the discovery and exploration phase of product and service ideas and features. Gathering and agreeing on information to determine what should be developed and how to proceed before the initial conception of the product and development of new features before agile development by each team is underway is particularly critical to success or failure in large-scale agile.
Since business departments other than the IT development department often play a central role in product direction and vision, Jira Product Discovery, with its visual representation, is a useful tool for achieving Agile that involves the business layer.
- It helps to centrally aggregate ideas and suggestions from development team members and business departments, and to evaluate and organize them.
- It provides a visual representation of your product direction and vision, and helps you clearly communicate the future shape of your product to stakeholders.
- Jira Product Discovery's integrated collaboration with Jira allows for smooth migration from the discovery and exploration phase to the development phase.
You can also extend the tool's functionality with a variety of plug-ins and add-ons.
Agile (Enterprise Agile) throughout the business
Connects management strategy to agile field work, moving the entire organization in the same direction
Connects management strategy to agile field work, moving the entire organization in the same direction
In large companies and organizations, it can be difficult to understand the entire business. It can also be ambiguous as to whether the work of an individual or team is truly aligned with the business strategy and corporate values.
Jira Align supports the scaling of Agile from individual teams to the portfolio level of the business. It also provides the ability to break down the organization's vision and strategy into specific tasks and initiatives, giving each team a clear understanding of how they align with the overall organization's strategy.
- Visualize corporate vision and business initiative priorities.
- Enables teams and individuals to understand the business strategy and align execution efforts accordingly.
- Measure achievement of business goals based on the degree to which each team achieves its results.
- Gain visibility into spending on initiatives and product and service development.
- Lean budgeting techniques ensure flexible funding in response to market fluctuations
- Make strategic and financial decisions based on real-time data at all times