Clear Path - Program for Solutions Partners
Fix Agile Pain Points Visually
Successful Jira implementations start with enabling clients to visually manage dependencies in the backlog, understand critical risks, and plan sprints effectively – which leads to happier clients. Clear Path is developed by Agile teams, for Agile teams.
Visual Superiority Effect
For more information about how visual tools improve project management, see our white. Paper: The Visual Superiority Effect, As Applied To Agile Team Management.
The visual tools that people currently use in Jira, traditional project management tools like Gantt Charts, feel familiar, but they are out of place when used by Agile teams. We need a new set of tools, that are agile first, visual first, for teams to reach their true potential. The sooner agile teams can come to a shared understanding, and maintain that shared understanding, the more value they can deliver and the faster they can deliver it.
Solving Agile problems leads to higher Jira adoption and positive client feedback
Clear Path solves a variety of common pain points in organizations of all scales that are executing Agile development.
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Clear Path creates a clean visual of all work, clearly identifying the bottleneck Work Items. Teams can prioritize clearing Bottlenecks before they become a problem to a project.
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The main cause of a release falling behind schedule is the schedule is unrealistic from the start. Clear Path’s Sprint Planning mode helps teams create realistic projections from the start, allowing them to cut scope or get working sooner.
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Projecting release dates for planned scope is a difficult task for even experienced professionals. For stakeholders to feel confident is timelines, they need to understand how the timeline was developed. Clear Path’s Visual Backlog mode presents an easy to understand visual of the project scope with tools to identify your risks to delivery. Clear Path’s Sprint Planning mode presents visual of the Agile plan for execution, with tools to easily communicate how the plans mitigates risks and how the plan prioritized the wor
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Agile is about projections, not detailed plans. Agile embraces the fuzzy math of story points over the granularity of estimates in hours and days. Stop using a Gantt chart, and start using a tool that was built for Agile processes.
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The Work Items in a backlog are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, where the only person who knows how they fit together is the Product Owner. Help teams visualize how the pieces fit together and help them comprehend the organizational goals faster.
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Work Items that are a high priority are often blocked by other Work Items that enable your key initiatives. Other Work Items may not seem important, but they are actually the ones driving your schedule. Clear Path’s Sprint Planning mode will automatically prioritize work items to keep you on schedule, and it will “automagically” plan out as many sprints as desired to give you a realistic expectation of the development length required.
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Creating, editing, and reversing relationships in Jira often require a minimum of 10 button clicks. In Clear Path visual canvas, these actions are generally just 2 or 3 clicks.
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In Agile, Work Items are written to provide incremental value to the end user of the product. Often, developers pick up Work Items they cannot finish because it is not clear in Jira they are partially blocked. Other times, the Product Owner incorrectly couples Work Items together so they cannot be worked independently. Clear Path helps teams ensure the implementation order of the Work Items is clear and correct before starting work.
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Help Your Clients Get More from Jira with Clear Path
As a Solution Partner, you're always looking for better ways to solve client challenges—especially those Jira can’t handle alone. Clear Path for Jira helps Agile teams estimate more accurately, clear roadblocks faster, and reduce time in meetings.
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