My company is searching for a portfolio management platform that effectively supports agile methodologies. We're prioritizing platforms that offer a strong balance of cost and benefits. Can you recommend any platforms that you've had positive experiences with in this area?
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Atlassian's Jira for Enterprise includes options for portfolio management that includes built-in agile features. The latest Enterprise release includes various modules or features that your team has to configure to match your team's "what" as far as "Portfolio Management" goes. The Enterprise version is relatively new and includes capabilities that previously required a third-party add on.
In my opinion you can get more features than you would from competitors at a lower cost to implement. You will need Jira specialists that know agile and can work with your team to configure to meet your teams' needs.
You can start small and add project and program increments to the greater portfolio until you have scaled out. Should be able to start cheap and scale up licenses as you go - keeping cost down.
You also need portfolio managers and agile coaches that can agree on basic standards of use for all projects, programs, and portfolios. You will also need to get development and test teams to agree on how and when to interface and interact with other platform tools such as Azure DevOps, Git repositories, etc.
The previous paragraph needs to be stated for any other options other than Jira too - ServiceNow SPM, Azure DevOps, and all others. The older portfolio platforms in this traditional space are too big and too expensive for the portfolio teams I work with.
I think Microsoft has a wide palette, that can be put together to fit your organization and communication. Like their PPM along with their Team foundation and Dev-Ops and MS Planer. Considering the benefits, I think you should think of how to integrate the solutions you have with what you need to add, rather than one big system where you must pay for all you could have.
An other way to put the question is: Are the benefits of monolith consolidation better that better benefits of distributed landscape considering the support of the agile mindset? (I think more flexibility is more agile)
I agree with Niels. Azure DevOps allows good entry level tools with the level of details needed to operationalize Scrum / Kanban teams and feed their data with management KPI reporting via integrated Dashboards. <br>Currently we have a large implementation of SAFe and the Program Managers use a separate project to manage their level of work and that integrates well with each of the 30+ solutions for all teams. <br>After 18 months on this we now have a Data Analytics Team that uses PowerBI to provide specialist analytics the DevOps boards cannot produce natively. <br><br>I've used other tools in the past including ServiceNow and Atlassian, they are great for CD/CI and tactical management. But IMO they cannot integrate seemingly like Microsoft.<br><br>Cost however, is an issue when you start to escalate. Microsoft is not cheap and we need a specialist team measuring our license agreements vs our utilization. This was less of an issue with Atlassian.
ServiceNow SPM works well in this space, but you have to be patient and willing to spend the money.
Hello, JIRA Atlassian is definitly the leader but you may find interesting several other tools you may consider if your users are not from Is development teams and you are looking for collaborative platforms to manage several initiatives : Monday, Asana, Smartsheet, Planview, Servicenow SPM, …