Big Room Planning

[suresh anantharaman]

I am planning for a big room planning to do quarterly planning across 18 squads . The objective is to arrive at the committed epics for the quarter by the squads, based on the prioritisation of features set by the chief product owner. I have used mural to collaborate across team during the planning. However I am looking to leverage jira either a program board or portfolio to do the planning and come out with a overall view of committed epics at the end of the planning session. Since mural doesn't have integration with jira, the output of mural doesn't give the expected output of the overall plan. Is there any better way to do this using jira. Note I don't have jira align and only have enterprise jira server

[Edwin Rozie]

Hi @suresh anantharaman ,

Adding to the answers above, Ativo Programs is a plugin made to facilitate a Big Room (Program Increment) planning in Jira.

Your teams can plan issues (epics, stories, bugs, spikes, ..), define cross-squad dependencies, tag epics (features) as being 'committed', raise risks & impediments, etc.

With kind regards,

Edwin Rozie

Ativo.io

[Kurt Klinner]

@suresh anantharaman 

Hi Suresh

there are some marketplace apps out there (also for server) that might be worth having a look to 

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1223211/whiteboards-for-jira-team-collaboration?tab=overview&hosting=server

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219491/easy-agile-programs-for-jira-pi-planning-program-board?hosting=server&tab=overview

There is also an article at the community available https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Agile-articles/How-to-Run-PI-Planning-in-Jira-Helping-make-SAFe-Easy/ba-p/1020659 that tackles that topic.

Hope that helps

Kurt

[suresh anantharaman]

Hi Kurt

Thanks for the revert. Is easy agile program is paid or out of the box plug in in Jira. Is it possible to manage PI planning using roadmap

[Kurt Klinner]

Hi Suresh

Easy agile is a commercial app.

If you would have DC or Cloud in use you could check if Advanced Roadmaps (which is bundled) could cover some of your requirements / https://www.atlassian.com/agile/teams/advanced-roadmaps-teams

Cheers

Kurt

[suresh anantharaman]

Hi Kurt,

Thanks , Is there a sample or steps to be done while setting up the roadmap for the squads to follow, so that the view for pi cab be achieved into roadmap

[suresh anantharaman]

Hi Kurt

Can I embed the advance roadmap in confluence. I do have Roadmap planner macro 

Advance roadmap is available in Jira, how do i get the view in confluence

[Kurt Klinner]

@suresh anantharaman 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver/share-plan-and-export-data-1044784271.html explains how that can be achieved by sharing the plan

Let me know if that helps

Cheers

Kurt