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If you need resources to help you manage projects, you’re in the right place. Here you’ll find expert interviews, how-tos, articles, white papers, app overviews and documentation… Everything you need to improve project processes and outcomes, from answers to basic questions (like “What is Planning Poker?”) to the scoop on new project management approaches like p3.express.
Featured PPM resources:
User story mapping in Jira: a guide for remote software development teams
Project and Portfolio Resource Management in BigPicture
The BEST Project Portfolio Management Show by Appfire
The BEST Project Portfolio Management Show by Appfire covers everything you ever wanted to know about PPM by talking with project management experts who’ve seen it all. And every episode is 10 minutes or less, so you can get back to changing the world, one project at a time.
A guide to Whiteboards for Jira, your ultimate collaboration app
Collaboration drives innovation and productivity, whether your team works in person or online. With Whiteboards for Jira, you can plan in Whiteboards and work in Jira while the apps automatically sync, enabling teams to work together digitally in a seamless flow.
Jira Work Management for Business Teams
Jira Work Management for Business Teams takes a hands-on approach to JWM implementation and associated processes that will help you get up and running with Jira and make you productive in no time. The book also shows you how to manage screens, field layouts, and administer your JWM projects effectively.
BigPicture
The future of PPM is with BigPicture. Unprecedented clarity of information, support for agile, classic, and hybrid frameworks, strategic alignment at all levels.
Implementing SAFe® with BigPicture: Part III
This white paper walks you through the configuration of Jira and BigPicture, where step by step, you will get all the required information to set you ready for the transition.
Project and Portfolio Resource Management in BigPicture
This white paper is a guide to a successful implementation of portfolio-level Resource Management through BigPicture and Jira. It is intended to help you develop and streamline your organization’s processes and increase its resource management capabilities.
Story Points. Friend or foe?
In this piece, Appfire’s Lex Kovalenko explains and reconsiders the concept of Story Points, a widely used approach to Agile project estimation, and suggests Relative estimation for Agile teams.
BigGantt
BigGantt is a powerful timeline and roadmapping app for Jira. With its slick, intuitive user interface and a host of data visualization and management tools, the app makes planning, monitoring, and managing work with Jira easy and efficient.
Retrospectives for Jira & Confluence
Retrospectives for Jira & Confluence is perfect for running effective Agile Retros in a remote setup with a convenient whiteboards template fully-integrated with Jira and Confluence.
Whiteboards for Jira
Whiteboards for Jira are integrated virtual boards for creative real-time collaboration that lets you run your team’s online activities.