Integration Scenarios: Project Online and

Could your organization benefit from a smoother flow of processes between JIRA and Project Online?

FluentPro Integration Hub facilitates the smooth flow of business data across platforms. A unified portfolio view of all project activities will help teams to better coordinate and integrate processes, bringing greater agility to your business. Unification of data and processes leads to improved cost and schedule performance.

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Let us start by illustrating real-life integration scenarios for Microsoft Project Online and Atlassian JIRA.

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FluentPro, an independent vendor, is a Microsoft Gold-Certified partner in Project ortfolioP Management competence. Since 2009, we’ve been delivering unique configuration management, migration and integration software products to meet and exceed businesses’ expectations from their Microsoft Project Server and Project Online usage.

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www.fluentpro.com | [email protected] | +1-855-358-3688 Bidirectional Synchronization of SAFe: Microsoft Project Online and User Stories and Tasks Atlassian JIRA

Scenario

• Project managers use Microsoft Project Online and Project Profes- • Project and portfolio managers use Microsoft Project Online for sional to create and maintain project schedules. portfolio management, portfolio analysis and prioritization. • Development teams maintain the product backlog and all iteration, • Atlasssian JIRA is used to manage all the development work. user stories and tasks in Atlassian JIRA.

Business Demand

• Integrate project plans with projects in JIRA for automated up- • After the organization captures all the new project ideas and ini- dates. tiatives in Microsoft Project Online, what is needed is for the epics • Eliminate the need for development teams to use Microsoft Project that the PM’s select/approve after prioritization to flow to JIRA. Online for progress reporting. • Teams need to be updated on the prioritized projects, and relevant • Provide project managers and development teams with close-to- tasks need to be clearly displayed in JIRA. real-time updates on project tasks. • Connect Project Online with JIRA to facilitate the SAFe process.

Solution

The organization applies FluentPro Integration Hub to maintain inte- The organization implements FluentPro Integration Hub to maintain grated business processes, and enable data flow between teams. integrated business processes, and support SAFe processes.

Implementation

• The PM develops project plan in Project Online, creating WBS with • PMO performs prioritization in Project Online, and the projects all user stories and tasks. selected after portfolio analysis are sent to JIRA as epics. • All the needed tasks are marked for synchronization with Atlassian • Development teams use JIRA, with synchronization reducing the JIRA. amount of time and effort required, optimizing business processes • Development teams get updates immediately and can add sub- within the organization. tasks, documents, and other artifacts, and report progress/time • All the updates flow between Microsoft Project Online and JIRA, spent on tasks in JIRA. thus maintaining smooth and efficient data flow. • All the updates in JIRA flow back to the project plan immediately after each synchronization.

Business Value

• Project management can see all the updates immediately after • With one consolidated view of project portfolios provided by Flu- synchronization. entPro Integration Hub, the main SAFe principles are supported. • Development teams receive new tasks and updates from PMs • Development teams are able to see the epics selected, and the instantly, thus equipping them to perform tasks without delays and transparency of the processes goes up and the number of team improving the work focus. meetings (and manual double entry of data) goes down. • With one consolidated portfolio available to the organization, both • The organizational management process is aligned with SAFe. managerial and technical staff efforts are optimized. • Managers do not have to hold as many project meetings as previ- ously, resulting in hours of the teams’ time being saved.

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