Planview Alternative to Jira Align (2024)

• Planview
• Jira

• • Adaptable alignment to all teams

    Integrate every team, all your tools, and all methodologies without forcing process change, data standardization, or re-implementing your teams.

  • Planview offers: 100%
  • Jira Align offers: none

• • Automated Agile costing and capitalization

    Automate calculation of Agile costs based on team activity and progress.

  • Planview offers: 100%
  • Jira Align offers: none

• • No add-on pricing or upcharges

    Pricing is all-inclusive, with everything you need built in — including access to your own data.

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  • Planview offers: 100%
  • Jira Align offers: none

• • Integrations

    Seamless event-based integration with numerous Agile, DevOps, and collaborative work management team tools.

  • 60+ pre-built, no-code integrations, including Jira Software, Jira Core, and Jira Service Desk, plus Azure DevOps, Rally Software, and ServiceNow

  • Only integrates with Jira Software and Azure DevOps

• • Financial management and capacity planning and management

    Track and manage time-phased budgets and forecasts with configurable metrics including ROI, NPV, IRR, etc. Manage portfolio, value stream, team, and shared services capacity.

  • Planview offers: 100%
  • Jira Align offers: 50%

• • Dashboard, analytics, and reporting

    Share status with pre-built and customizable resources and connect your data to Power BI out-of-the-box.

  • Planview offers: 100%
  • Jira Align offers: n50%

• • Work intake and prioritization

    Rank epics manually or automatically based on WSJF or various custom scoring models, such as financials, schedules and risks. Support different prioritization methods from the portfolio to the teams.

  • Planview offers: 100%
  • Jira Align offers: 50%

• • Scaling Agile frameworks and embedded objectives and key results (OKRs)

    Easily configure Kanban boards to implement Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®), Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), Disciplined Agile (DA), Spotify, and more. Get a clear line of sight into OKRs and associated work, from portfolios to teams. Full support for Lean Portfolio Management.

  • Planview offers: 100%
  • Jira Align offers: 50%

• • Dependency visualization

    Visually identify and map interrelated work across and between teams.

  • Planview offers: 100%
  • Jira Align offers: 100%

• • Agile work delivery

    Support for iterative and incremental approaches to work delivery.

  • Planview offers: 100%
  • Jira Align offers: 100%

Agile Project Management tools, like Jira Software, provide a means for developers and project managers to plan, track, and manage many aspects of Agile software development projects. Mostly geared toward bug tracking, ticketing, and code check-in and check-outs, they support teams using Agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches like Scrumban, in their development of products and services.

Enterprise Agile Planning tools represent an evolution from project-centric, bug-tracking, and ticketing Agile tools. They support a product-centric approach, focused on customers and the delivery of value. Enterprise Agile Planning tools connect business strategy to delivery by supporting both Agile and traditional portfolios while enabling team, program, and portfolio-level planning. While many businesses use enterprise Agile frameworks like Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) to guide their pursuit of enterprise-wide agility, these tools are built to complement their use.

Enterprise Agile Planning solutions further the drive to agility by enabling organizations to operationalize not only how they plan, but also fund and deliver, value. They often provide robust financial management modeling functionality to access different funding, cost, and capacity scenarios while helping an organization stay focused on the outcomes and objectives that are most important. Enterprise Agile Planning solutions also help organizations align to value streams, grouping areas of capabilities or persistent demand into functional groups (or products) for streamlined funding to areas with high-value opportunity.

What are some of the key capabilities to look for in an Enterprise Agile Planning solution?

• Support for end-to-end holistic visibility
• Support for dynamic Agile planning and prioritization at the team, program, and portfolio levels
• Support for a combination of traditional and Agile portfolios
• Support for businesses making the project-to-product shift
• Support for distributed Agile teams in the planning, coordination, and delivery of business value
• Support for Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
• Support for disparate Agile team tools and their integrations
• Support for financial management and scenario planning of costs, funding, and capacity
• Support for capacity planning and management
• Support for dependency visualization
• Support for Agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid use cases such as Scrumban, and more
• Support for the use of enterprise Agile frameworks like SAFe, LeSS, DA, and others

Jira Align vs. Jira: what is the difference?

Jira Software was first launched in 2002 as a bug tracking tool for software development teams. As this product and the Agile development space evolved, Jira Software rose in popularity as an Agile project management tool (primarily among Scrum teams) for its flexibility, ease of customization, and low cost. It is most used by teams looking for task management, issue tracking, and project management software, but not for cross-project, cross-team coordination, or organizational-level planning and visibility.

Although Jira Software leverages a data hierarchy with nomenclature commonly used in portfolio-level planning (“portfolio epics”), it does not support this level of planning. In addition, it does not natively support customization of its issue hierarchy. These points, coupled with the fact that Jira Software cannot support cross-project and cross-team coordination involving things like the management of dependencies, as well as other scaled Agile use cases, does not make it a good fit for teams interested in applying the use of enterprise Agile frameworks like SAFe.

Now, here’s a Jira Align overview: In 2019, Atlassian acquired Agile management platform provider AgileCraft, and rebranded its solution as Jira Align. Jira Align is Atlassian’s answer for scaled agility. This tool complements the use of Jira Software by providing a means of conducting portfolio-level planning leveraging select data mapped from execution teams whose projects and tasks are tracked primarily in Jira Software.

We have teams that use Jira Software. Can we integrate Planview’s Enterprise Agile Planning solution with Jira and other Agile project management tools?

Yes. Planview’s Enterprise Agile Planning solution gives teams the flexibility to continue to use the Agile execution tools they are familiar with or that are already tailored to support their processes. Whether teams use Atlassian’s Jira Software, Jira Core, or Jira Service Desk, or other tools like Broadcom’s Rally Software, Microsoft Azure DevOps, or ServiceNow, Planview allows Agile teams to connect their tool of choice into a program or teams-of-teams board with ease – enabling them to continue delivering value without disruption.

How does scaling Agile with Planview compare to scaling Agile with Jira Align?

Planview’s Enterprise Agile Planning solution is a comprehensive work and capacity management platform that integrates Agile scaling with portfolio management, capacity allocation, financial planning, and strategic alignment. It offers features beyond Agile scaling, supporting traditional project and resource management and providing end-to-end visibility across the project and portfolio landscape.

On the other hand, Jira Align is a dedicated enterprise Agile planning tool focused on scaling Agile practices, offering capabilities such as Agile portfolio management, program management, and team-level planning. It integrates with other Atlassian tools.

• Support for end-to-end holistic visibility
• Support for dynamic Agile planning and prioritization at the team, program, and portfolio levels
• Support for a combination of traditional and Agile portfolios
• Support for businesses making the project-to-product shift
• Support for distributed Agile teams in the planning, coordination, and delivery of business value
• Support for Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
• Support for disparate Agile team tools and their integrations
• Support for financial management and scenario planning of costs, funding, and capacity
• Support for capacity planning and management
• Support for dependency visualization
• Support for Agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid use cases such as Scrumban, and more
• Support for the use of enterprise Agile frameworks like SAFe, LeSS, DA, and others

Jira Software was first launched in 2002 as a bug tracking tool for software development teams. As this product and the Agile development space evolved, Jira Software rose in popularity as an Agile project management tool (primarily among Scrum teams) for its flexibility, ease of customization, and low cost. It is most used by teams looking for task management, issue tracking, and project management software, but not for cross-project, cross-team coordination, or organizational-level planning and visibility.

Although Jira Software leverages a data hierarchy with nomenclature commonly used in portfolio-level planning (“epics”), it does not support this level of planning. In addition, it does not natively support customization of its issue hierarchy. These points, coupled with the fact that Jira Software cannot support cross-project and cross-team coordination involving things like the management of dependencies, as well as other scaled Agile use cases, does not make it a good fit for teams interested in applying the use of enterprise Agile frameworks like SAFe.

Now, here’s a Jira Align overview: In 2019, Atlassian acquired Agile management platform provider AgileCraft, and rebranded its solution as Jira Align. Jira Align is Atlassian’s answer for scaled agility. This tool complements the use of Jira Software by providing a means of conducting portfolio-level planning leveraging select data mapped from execution teams whose projects and tasks are tracked primarily in Jira Software.

Yes. Planview’s Enterprise Agile Planning solution gives teams the flexibility to continue to use the Agile execution tools they are familiar with or that are already tailored to support their processes. Whether teams use Atlassian’s Jira Software, Jira Core, or Jira Service Desk, or other tools like Broadcom’s Rally Software, Microsoft Azure DevOps, or ServiceNow, Planview allows Agile teams to connect their tool of choice into a program or teams-of-teams board with ease – enabling them to continue delivering value without disruption.

Planview’s Enterprise Agile Planning solution is a comprehensive work and resource management platform that integrates Agile scaling with portfolio management, resource allocation, financial planning, and strategic alignment. It offers features beyond Agile scaling, supporting traditional project management and providing end-to-end visibility across the project and portfolio landscape.

On the other hand, Jira Align is a dedicated enterprise Agile planning tool focused on scaling Agile practices, offering capabilities such as Agile portfolio management, program management, and team-level planning. It integrates seamlessly with other Atlassian tools. The choice between the two depends on specific needs, integration requirements, and the level of emphasis on broader work and resource management capabilities.

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