Portfolio Goggles

The main story map like view with ability to create parents of projects and build the structure of business goals above the project level.
This is how we use the Portfolio Goggles for framing the development of the Portfolio Goggles product itself :)
And here comes The Team!

Inspiration

In pursuit of a company alignment

For Business and IT of IT-heavy companies who strive to understand each other while working together on portfolio of shared goals Portfolio Goggles is the add-on for Atlassian JIRA that lets them share the same perspective on why and how business vision is turned into working products.

What it does

Visualise your backlog as single holistic entity directing your company towards its goals. See it all in a coherent fractal-based manner. Adjust granularity of picture to a level you need to focus on. Easily zoom in and out at your convenience to grasp the wider context and make better informed decisions.
Ensure focus and alignment of individuals on company's goals. Let visionaries understand HOW their requirements are executed by tracing them down to the level of individual tasks. Let implementers understand WHY their tasks are important by tracing up to the level of company goals.
Represent your company's portfolio in a natural, easy-to-grasp and human-mind-friendly manner. Provide logical and physical consistency on each level of granularity thanks to the abstraction of fractal structures. Navigate easily among levels of granularity up to your convenience.

How I built it

There is currently 3 of us. All volunteers. Striving to get Goggles work for you in our free time.

Challenges I ran into

Our challenges were more bound to the startup nature of our work (budget, time, team) rather than anything related to the JIRA Cloud platform. When it comes to technology - we have all we need from Atlassian for the addon development for free! Of course there is a learning curve when it comes to using APIs and searching for "best practice" how to do certain things, but this is all "as expected" and with the support of geeks on Atlassian developers forum we were able to learn reasonably quickly.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We have a Proof-of-Concept version working and available for entrepreneurs on the Atlassian Market which was developed with a very limited budget. We are now ready to collect initial user feedback and ready to work in the Lean Startup manner.

What I learned

I learnt it takes time, patience, humility and lots of experiments to move forward. It takes learn and fail or, should I say, see, use and redesign approach.

What's next for Portfolio Goggles

We have got backlog filled in with ideas for the next couple of years ;)

Submitted to

Atlassian Codegeist 2017

Created by

Companies have a need to get even more out of JIRA. As long as JIRA does great job on the level of development teams, my observation is that business people still use spreadsheets for their work. There are multiple negative consequences of using these two languages while working on a single goal. Every project I participated in suffered from this bareer - things get "lost in translation" easier. So I thought - why don't get all these people on the same page by building support for business guys into JIRA. Piotr formulated requirements and have been acting as the Product Owner for the Portfolio Goggles, while Jacek and Konrad did the hard work of coding.

Piotr Trojanowski, SCT, PMP
Jacek Jusianiec
Konrad Kruś