| | OCTOBER 20238CIOReviewIN MY OPINIONWith over two decades of experience in digital media technology, and at the forefront of streaming driving launches for HBO GO and Cinemax GO both domestically and internationally, John has overseen product management, program management, quality assurance, data analytics, strategic partners, and technical customer support for named brand global companies. At Paramount Global he leads the PMO team setting best practices and standards in software product development, agile delivering, agile coaching, and training. If you work in software development following an agile development methodology, then likely you use Atlassian's JIRA product or you have used it in the past. JIRA allows teams to define their work in manageable chunks, planned either on a Sprint basis or a Kanban-style board to visualize the flow of work. JIRA is focused typically at the team level, with a view to a few increments of work.Why JIRA Align?Where JIRA itself begins to hit limitations is from a team of teams perspective. Scaling agile across the enterprise to many or hundreds of teams is not something you can easily plan and visualize within JIRA. If you are working within a product development organization on a consumer product with wide adoption with regards to a number of users and wide adoption globally, then likely you are operating in a team of teams scenario. To address this need, JIRA Align (JA) has been introduced.JIRA Align CapabilitiesJIRA Align is intended to connect business strategy to customer outcomes at scale. It can capture strategy and tie it to execution through OKRs. There are a slew of features focused on long-term planning, road mapping, risk, issue, and dependency management. Data is synchronized between JIRA and JA, based on your designation of specific projects and boards. JA extends JIRA to manage program, portfolio, and enterprise level planning activities. The tool is UNDERSTANDING JIRA ALIGNJohn B. NarusBy John B. Narus, Vice President, APMO, Advanced Technology
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