In today’s fast-moving business environment, achieving high performance requires more than just using the right tools – it demands connected ecosystems that empower teams to collaborate, adapt, and deliver value at speed. However, too often the conversation revolves around choosing one tool over another – Jira or Azure DevOps (ADO). The reality is that both tools can be incredibly powerful when used together, helping to build on the successes of existing teams while enabling new product teams to showcase value from day one.

By enabling organisations to leverage both Jira and Azure DevOps, they are able to foster operational agility and performance excellence across the business and technology. XLR8 ALLSET ties this all together by integrating data from both tools and unlocking the full potential of your organisation.

Amplify Success with Azure DevOps

For organisations already leveraging Azure DevOps (ADO), the benefits are often clear. ADO has long been a reliable tool for platform and engineering teams, providing CI/CD, version control, and a robust suite of development tools from Microsoft. Teams that have successfully integrated ADO can continue to maximise its value, ensuring consistency in workflows and optimising their software delivery lifecycle.

Introducing Jira alongside ADO, however, opens up additional opportunities for flexibility and growth. By combining both tools, organisations can create a connected ecosystem that allows both established and new teams to collaborate seamlessly. This integration ensures that the tools align with how teams prefer to work, enhancing their ability to deliver value. When teams see tangible benefits from the tools they use, it fosters a strong foundation of data trust and confidence, driving greater success across the board.

Empower Teams with Jira

For newer product teams or organisations looking to implement a new operating model, Jira is an invaluable tool. Its native ability to create custom workflows (whether Scrum, Kanban, or anything in between) ensures that teams can tailor processes to their specific needs, making it easy to adapt as they grow.

Jira Goals connects work across different teams to ensure consistent progress towards organisational targets. Jira also supports OKR implementation with ease, helping teams align their work to measurable goals and objectives. The native roadmaps in Jira provide a visual way to plan the big picture, helping teams align their work with broader business strategies.

The flexibility of Jira enables teams across your business to get started quickly. Whether you are a product or marketing team, Jira can support your workflow and foster collaboration across your enterprise. With Jira, teams can showcase their capability to drive high performance and align with broader company objectives from the start.

Unlock the Full Potential with ADO and Jira

Having Jira and Azure DevOps working together gives organisations a competitive edge. ADO continues to provide essential tools for CI/CD and version control, while Jira offers best-in-class product delivery and team collaboration. The option of both tools allows teams to optimise their workflows, ensuring all team types can work together in harmony, driving success across the board.

What makes this even more powerful is the ability to integrate both Jira and ADO with XLR8 ALLSET – deployed on PowerBI, Qlik, or Tableau. This integration enables organisations to connect not just platform, stream-aligned, or enabling teams but also HR, Finance, Sales, Customer Insights, and other key organisational data sources into a single, unified platform. XLR8 ALLSET has built-in AI capabilities that allow leaders to query their data and achieve decision-advantage on-demand. With XLR8 ALLSET, organisations can gain real-time insights into performance metrics, team efficiency, and business outcomes, all in one place – customisable at every step of business change or organisation growth.

For larger enterprises, Jira and ADO integrate seamlessly with Jira Align, offering the necessary tools to manage complex portfolios and align enterprise strategy with execution. This integration is crucial for organisations aiming to scale and optimise their operations across multiple teams and departments. Additionally, Jira Align and Enterprise Insights integrate smoothly with XLR8 ALLSET, enabling key operational functions to centralise and visualise their reporting needs. This is all underpinned by high-trust, verified data from Jira, ADO, and Jira Align, ensuring that decision-makers have access to accurate, actionable insights on-demand.

Wire Your Organisation for High Performance

Jira and Azure DevOps enable different team types across your organisation to track real-time performance, improve flow efficiency, and continuously optimise their delivery processes. By connecting these tools with XLR8 ALLSET, you ensure teams are empowered with real-time connected data they trust, allowing them to make better, faster, safer decisions.

Top 10 Additional Benefits Unlocked with Jira:

1. Configurability: Jira’s ability to create custom workflows means it can be tailored to your specific needs. Whether you’re tracking performance metrics or modelling your intake process and end-to-end delivery flow, Jira’s flexibility is unmatched.
2. OKR and Goal Tracking: Connect work across teams to goals and track progress. Align team goals to department and organization goals without needing custom code or third-party tools.
3. Product Analytics Integration: By integrating Amplitude with Jira, teams can seamlessly track product usage, user behaviour, and engagement metrics directly alongside project management data. This integration provides a unified view of how product development efforts are impacting customer experience, enabling data-led decisions and allowing teams to quickly pivot or optimise based on real-time insights.
4. Reporting: Jira offers comprehensive reporting capabilities, helping to measure and report on OKRs, performance, and flow efficiency in real-time.
5. AI-Driven Insights and Automation: By leveraging Atlassian Jira Cloud's AI capabilities, organisations can unlock powerful automation and data-led insights. Jira Cloud’s AI-driven suggestions allow for smarter decision-making by analysing patterns in data, offering actionable insights, and automating repetitive tasks. This enables teams to focus on high-value work, improves productivity, and drives more accurate, data-led decisions at every level of the organisation.
6. Integration with Miro, Amplitude, and GitHub: Jira integrates seamlessly with Miro for ideation, Amplitude for product analytics, and GitHub for version control, ensuring teams have the tools they need at their fingertips.
7. Scalability and Adaptability: As your organisation grows, Jira adapts to your evolving needs. Whether you’re managing a handful of teams or hundreds, Jira supports flexible workflows and helps scale your processes to overcome new challenges.
8. Internal Capability Creation: With Atlassian certified expert learning pathways, your teams can quickly gain the skills needed to drive transformation from within.
9. Governance: Jira also supports tool governance, providing guidance on recommended service models and best practices to ensure consistency and efficiency.
10. Cross-Department Collaboration: Jira isn’t just for technology teams, it's widely adopted by HR, sales, marketing, and other business functions. By connecting teams across the entire value chain, Jira helps bridge the gap on silos and enables data-informed collaboration, ensuring every department is aligned and working towards delivering end-to-end business value.

Conclusion

High performing organisations don't waste time about choosing between Jira or Azure DevOps – it’s about leveraging the right tool to unlock value across every team. By integrating Jira, Azure DevOps, and XLR8 ALLSET, organisations create a connected enterprise that delivers performance, agility, and value at scale.

With the right tools to enable your operating model, and XLR8 ALLSET unifying data, you have the capability at your finger tips to wire high performance across your organisation. Empower your teams with real-time insights founded on trusted data to reduce risk, improve decision-making, and accelerate value delivery in line with business goals and strategy.

The Connected Enterprise is no longer a distant aspiration – it’s how your teams operate every day, wired into the fabric of your organisation.

Ready to take the next step? Get in touch to discover how XLR8, an Atlassian Agile at Scale Specialized Partner, can help unify your data, align your teams, and accelerate high performance.

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