Advanced Roadmaps for Jira & Jira Align

Explore two Atlassian solutions to accelerate your agile at scale journey.

Advanced Roadmaps for Jira and Jira Align both help you visualize your work, plan for the future, and
track progress along the way. Both use Jira as the team level system of record for work, but provide
different sets of capabilities beyond the team level. Discover the differences and determine which is
the right fit for your business.

Advanced Roadmaps for Jira Jira Align

Create realistic roadmaps, do long-term Improve visibility, strategic alignment,

agile planning, and keep stakeholders up and business agility in order to accelerate
to date on work being done in Jira Software. your digital transformation with Jira Align.

VISUALIZE WORK

How do I get visibility across each of my teams, projects, and products in a single place?

Build plans to visualize work across teams Visualize work across every level, from
and projects using your Jira data. In the roadmap individuals on teams up to the portfolio and
view of a Advanced Roadmaps for Jira plan, executive levels of your organization. Easily
create inline timelines based on underlying see how the work in progress connects to
Jira data. Use roadmaps to drill down for the strategic direction from your leadership,
further information and inform strategic and quickly get a real-time snapshot of what
decision-making. hundreds of teams are working on, their status,
and rolled-up progress.

PLAN WORK

How do I plan work across multiple levels of our business and understand what
needs to be done and how much can be done before committing to that work?

Factor in your team’s capacity, dependencies Effectively execute on the strategic direction
between work items, and the timing of major of your business. Kanban and program boards
milestones in the form of releases (fix versions facilitate quarterly and annual portfolio and
in Jira) before committing changes back to Jira program planning, roadmaps for product-level
and setting plans in motion. Planning can be planning, and capacity/estimations for team-
done on a cadence: per sprint, per iteration, level execution efficiency.
or further out depending on the team’s
planning horizon.
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TRACK PROGRESS

How do I see how work is progressing, the status of items at various levels, prediction
of when the work will be done, and indications if the work is off schedule?

Track progress of work at an individual or team Track the progress of work at multiple levels - from
level across individual work items, sprints/ individuals on a team in a sprint, to the release of
iterations, or releases. Quickly adjust plans, a new feature in your portfolio. Quickly adjust
manage new risks, and review release schedules plans, manage new risks, review release schedules,
in a single place. and track success metrics in a single place.

MANAGE DEPENDENCIES

How do I see how work relates to other work, particularly when one item depends on
the completion of another, at different levels of the organization that are relevant to me?

Create and review dependencies between work Manage dependencies through a unique
items spanning multiple teams and projects, commitment workflow that allows both teams
as well as those that are external to your to acknowledge and commit to the dependency
Advanced Roadmaps for Jira plan, directly on together, reducing the chances of confusion
your roadmap. Clearly see when conflicts arise or miscommunication. Quickly visualize every
and easily understand how changes between dependency across teams and between programs
dependent issues can impact downstream work to get a better understanding of the dependency
to determine the best path forward and avoid workload, which teams may become bottlenecks,
future conflicts. and improve your release predictability.

REPORTING

How can I share the status of work with the people in my organization who need to know?

Manipulate your plans with filters and view Configurable dashboards (“rooms”) provide the
settings to provide meaningful updates on live status of work in progress at a glance. Rooms
status, flag conflicts for discussion, or showcase provide multiple levels of reporting, from individual
long-term plans. teams to the enterprise level, to help those with
different needs to see the information they want.

PROGRAM & PORTFOLIO SUPPORT

What level of scale can I visualize, plan, manage, and track work at?

Visualize, plan, and track the progress of work for Track financial impact, prove customer value
teams of agile teams, up to the program level. delivered, apply lean portfolio management,
and create strategic alignment up to the portfolio
and executive level.
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features/roadmaps

Available on Cloud, Server, Data Center* Cloud (also available on-prem)

Methodologies Scrum, Kanban, custom Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework®

supported (SAFe ®), Lean Startup, Spotify, LeSS, Value
Engineering, Scrum @ Scale, hybrid or
custom frameworks

Number of teams Advanced Roadmaps for Jira works best for Functionally, Jira Align is capable of
supported collections of up to 20 agile teams working supporting hundreds to thousands of users
together (about 50-150 people at a time). at multiple levels within an organization.

Number of concurrent One Multiple

Jira instances supported

Integrations with other Team-level work tracking** Team-level work tracking

Atlassian products Jira Software Server and Data Center Jira Software Server, Jira Software
(as Marketplace app), Jira Software Cloud Data Center, Jira Software Cloud
(as part of Premium plan)

Sharing
Confluence Server, Confluence Data Center

Loading limits Loading limits prevent plans from becoming Unlimited

too large and hindering performance. Learn
more about the current limits here.

Permissions Set unique user permissions to manage Using a role-based permission set, assign
access and ability to make changes to users to roles on teams. Each role has distinct
Portfolio plans. Learn more here. levels of access. Learn more here.

* This comparison reflects the functionality available in

Advanced Roadmaps in Jira Premium and on Server and Data
Center in versions 3.22 and later.

** Host product deployment must match app deployment

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VISUALIZE WORK

Individual level

Team level

Team of Teams (program level)

Network of Teams (portfolio level)

PLAN WORK

Roadmapping

Plan future work/set dates

Keep plans up-to-date

Demonstrate impact of change

Team management

Capacity planning

Break work into quarterly events

TRACK PROGRESS

Individual work item

(i.e. story or epic)

Flexible hierarchy
(i.e. adding features or
objectives above epics)
Release management

Work on schedule

Managing risks

Progress metrics
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MANAGE DEPENDENCIES

Between individuals

Between teams

Between teams of teams

REPORTING

Sharing

API

Configuring dashboards

Business intelligence/analytics

Data export

3rd-party integrations

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Portfolio management support

Lean principles support

Strategic success metrics

(i.e. OKRs, KPIs)

Pivot-or-persevere guidance

Lean budgeting & dynamic investing

Measuring growing revenue,

reducing costs, proving ROI
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STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT

Surface strategic objectives to teams

Map work to business strategy

Map delivery team schedule

to business schedule

Use a common naming convention

Associate financials to work

Create, manage and map work to OKRs

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