We’re shocked by the war raging in Ukraine and deplore the aggression of Russia's leadership against Ukraine. On March 2nd 2022, The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution condemning Russia's invasion. The world stands with the people of Ukraine. We stand with the people of Ukraine. Ativo is suspending all
Support for team capacity planning – version 2.1 The following new functionalities, enhancements and bug fixes are included in version 2.1 of Ativo Programs: Support for team capacity planning on the program board. The planned vs defined capacity is visible on top of each sprint. Enable this functionality via View options > Capacity Changed
New configuration options, planning functionalities, bug fixes and a security fix – version 2.0 The following new functionalities, enhancements and bug fixes are included in version 2.0 of Ativo Programs: New configuration options for teams, programs and periods (program increments) New planning functionalities: inline 'create new issue', limit backlog length, icon row (including icon
Filters and program configuration options – version 1.9 The following new functionalities, enhancements and bug fixes are included in version 1.9 of Ativo Programs: Filter on specific features in the planning and progress screens. Filters from the planning screen are now also available on the progress screen. These filters are applied on the summary,
Dependencies between stories – release 1.7 What's new in version 1.7 of Ativo Agile Programs for Jira? Able to add / update blocking dependencies between stories in the program View underlying stories of a feature Stories and features can be individually folded/unfolded
Ativo Agile Programs on Jira Data Center Ativo Agile Programs for Jira, our PI planning and scrum of scrums solution, is now available for organizations using Jira Data Center. What is Jira Data Center? Jira ships in three product variants: Jira Cloud Jira Server ( discontinued ) Jira Data Center Jira Data Center is built
Declutter your program board Program boards can get messy with a high number of dependency cords. Programs with more than 10 teams can easily have more than 100 features and dependencies on the board. In our newest 1.5 release of Ativo Agile Programs for Jira, we provide a solution for this! We've added a filter
Why do scrum teams estimate work in story points? Companies that adopt agile or scrum often estimate their work in story points. What are the advantages? How are estimations best done? Top-down versus bottom-up Work can be estimated top-down or bottom-up. A top-down estimation uses data of previous projects. Looking at this previous data, an
Visualize your program cycle - release version 1.3 Our newest release version (1.3) of Ativo Agile Programs for Jira is now available on the Atlassian Marketplace for Jira Cloud and Jira Server. What's new? Added program cycle overview (Prepare, Plan, Deliver and Iterate) : Promote incremental program delivery. Accelerate the program planning preparation and
SAFe EU 2020 summit in quotes Agility is like fun: no one can make it for you Dean Leffingwell, Chief Methodologist of SAFe In his keynote, Dean explains how they applied the SAFe agility principles on their own organization when revenue streams dropped due to Covid.They scrambled to