BigPicture

BigPicture is a plugin for Jira that allows organizations to plan, track and optimize scaled agile processes at team, program and solution level. The features of BigPicture build on several of the tools recommended by SAFe®.
You will be able to plan and track progress on the application’s built-in Roadmap module, plan PI backlogs and see dependencies across teams from the board module, ROAMe risks from a BigPictures Risk Matrix and create and track PI Objectives at both team and program level.

We can therefore say with certainty that BigPicture gives you good prerequisites for carrying out your organization’s PI Planning and subsequently monitoring progress in order to focus, take action and adjust the plan as needed.

BigPicture's different functionalities

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The Roadmap module can be used to plan and communicate initiatives, deliverables and milestones at portfolio, solution and program level.
An organization can use this module to track progress on deliverables that deliver on parts of the organization’s strategy and vision, as well as communicate short-term and long-term initiatives both internally and to stakeholders.
In BigPicture, milestones are visualized as a diamond on the Roadmap and are also clearly visible in the info panel on the right side of the Roadmap, so you can quickly get an overview of relevant milestones.

As BigPicture is a Jira plugin that builds on the data that exists in Jira, teams are still able to work with their Jira boards in their daily work.
Where BigPicture’s board module can really bring value to your organization is for example at the following events:

PI Planning: Team break-outs and Plan Reviews, where agile teams can break down Features into Stories directly from the PI backlog on the right side of the module and plan stories for each iteration.
From the board module, teams can also plan and view dependencies across teams within the same ART, and see the team’s planned PI dependencies.

SOS: From the board module, Scrum Masters have the ability to coordinate and align the planning of upcoming iterations and identify and manage dependencies across teams.

During PI Planning, each team identifies the Program Risks and obstacles that may impact the ability to achieve the planned Objectives.

It is from the BigPicture Risk module that teams can create the risks they identify. From here it is possible to get an overview of the created Risks both in a Risk Matrix and in list form.
It is also from BigPicture’s Risk Matrix that we at Aety recommend that you run your ROAMing sessions.
Here you have the opportunity to discuss and highlight Program Risks, after which they can be categorized one by one according to the ROAMing technique categories: Resolved, Owned, Accepted and Mitigated.

The Objectives module, as the name suggests, allows teams to create PI Objectives, summarizing the business and technical goals that the team expects to deliver on within the upcoming PI.
PI Objectives help ensure an aligned focus that matches the organization’s vision, and they can also be used to communicate what goals are expected to be delivered in the upcoming PI to the organization’s stakeholders.

BigPicture’s Objectives module supports SAFe®’s definition of Objectives. You can create both committed and uncommitted solution, program and team Objectives and specify PBV and ABV. In addition, BigPicture also uses SAFe’s Program Predictability Measure (PPM) to indicate the percentage of business value delivered per PI.

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