

To get updates on BigPicture.one, remember to subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter. We plan to enable easy integration with multiple Jira instances, regardless of their hosting models, and with popular management platforms, such as Azure DevOps, GitLab, Microsoft Planner, and more.Īll the changes and improvements featured on this page are not only intended to take your management experience with BigPicture to the next level but, first and foremost, to gradually materialize the vision of BigPicture.one – a standalone app reaching beyond the Jira realm. We have already connected the BigPicture with Trello and Jira instances in the same hosting model as the parent instance. We aim to further expand our family of integrations. The mechanism will enable easy migration between different hosting models. We will soon offer backup and restore options for all hosting versions of BigPicture. Hence, we are developing a migration support solution. We want to offer our users continuous support in their migration journey to new solutions and hosting models. The Atlassian ecosystem is constantly evolving, and we are not staying behind. Jira or Trello are trackers and a roadmap is a separate app, or addon, or plugin, that helps a project manager see the big picture. But a roadmap should work together with the backlog. While a roadmap sets a general direction, the backlog is a set of detailed issues. Starting BigPicture 8 you can even rename the Gantt chart module, to whatever you want. Yet, we must say, some BigPicture users actually use our Gantt chart as a roadmap. The Gantt charts are much more fine-grained than the roadmaps. With a roadmap, you plan “for October” or “for the 3rd quarter”. With the bar chart, you could plan “for July 15th”. This could be your milestone, sometimes expressed as a vertical red line on a timeline. Say, you’ll attend a SAFe summit on April 10th in the hope to increase your sales by 20% in the given year. Stakeholders in project management are: (a) a manager who is most interested in the outcome of a project, (b) a manager who secures resources for the project, and (c) a steering committee or representatives of all the organizations involved in the project. The term Stakeholders have a very different meaning in roadmapping than in everyday life. to stakeholders – who input goals on roadmaps, and confront these goals with real-life results afterwardĪre stakeholders the owners of the company?.to teams – to generate a shared understanding of goals.Team swimlanes on Jira BigPicture roadmap, iteration-level planning. Few people should be given permission to modify goals on the roadmap so that at the end of the day the project manager is able to compare the results with the original plan. Roadmaps are among those rare PPM situations that call for static planning. It’s good to see ‘human-readable’ long-term goals, expressed with simple language and colloquial speech, rather than tasks. It’s good to observe overarching goals on the horizon (the much-discussed common understanding). Team boards and dependency boards are not enough. Roadmap Q&A Are roadmaps necessary in the Agile times? Project goals at least in the form of deliverables.A timeline with the project divided into stages (Program Increments in SAFe®).PBV translates to Planned Business Value, ABV = Actual Business Value. You can set objectives, goals both at the iteration, and program increment levels. Also, integration with Jira backlog or tracker, resources, and risk modules.Īgile roadmap in BigPicture 8. And not only drawing a roadmap in Jira for that plan. Remember that “appetite comes with eating”? What does Jira Roadmapping stand for? With aesthetically pleasing roadmaps and other PPM tools, such as Gantt chart, resources, and risk modules, with green or red dependency arrows, that our clients love so much, BigPicture fits a PPM manager’s needs. But for Jira Portfolio there was always an elephant in the room…īigPicture does even better. With such features as “capacity usage in October” Jira Portfolio might seem great for tactical planning. In fact, it’s been devised with roadmapping in mind. Portfolio for Jira (the app by Atlassian) does better. Ask Jira Agile for “a rough plan for the next 6 months” and you’ll get a list of 500 tasks. It’s sprint- and cadence-focused and lacks aggregation. As a matter of fact, Jira Software has not been designed for long-term planning.

Jira features no roadmap functionality by default.
