Step-Up Agile with Jira
Enterprise Agile Service

Ricksoft provides implementation support and training based on Atlassian products Jira and Confluence to help you step up to an agile way of working.

Our solutions support the migration from traditional project management to agile “development teams” and organizations.

Step-Up Agile with Jira

VUCA era

The world is changing rapidly
The world is changing rapidly.
Markets can move in response to a single tweet, or logistics can be disrupted by a health crisis or territorial dispute.
Emerging technologies such as AI are also opening up new possibilities in unexpected ways.
VUCA
Today's unstable times are known as VUCA*, and traditional ways of working based on long-term planning and all-or-nothing development cannot cope with rapid change.
*VUCA: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity
Maintain employee engagement
We need to be more flexible to respond quickly to unexpected market changes. And to be successful, you need to keep your employees engaged.
Maintain employee engagement
Enterprise Agile is a new way of approaching business, based on the values of alignment, transparency, respect for the individual, and continuous improvement that will give you the flexibility to transform your business and meet future challenges.

Achieve enterprise agility with "Step-Up Agile with Jira"

Step-Up Agile with Jira 3 Services

Ricksoft has created a simple three-step service to help you implement the Enterprise Agile methodology in the Japanese market by establishing the three steps required for business transformation.

"Step-Up Agile with Jira" provides the tools, processes, and knowledge to help customers step up to Enterprise Agile by training them using the same Agile development tools they use in their business.

Unlike other “DX Transformation” consultants, we are designed to help you achieve Enterprise Agile at a sustainable and comfortable rate while continuously observing results and getting feedback.

STEP1 Team Agile Introduction Support Service

Agile methodologies and tools for single teams of 3-10 people

What you will learn.

  • Agile Scrum methodologies, roles and events
  • Software tools and best practices
  • How to use Jira and Confluence for agility
  • The difference between traditional project management (waterfall) and agile

What you can achieve

  • Create a roadmap for Agile/Scrum implementation
  • Motivate employees, teamwork, and collaboration
  • Increased communication and feedback between project teams, business teams, and customers/end users
  • Establish cross-functional, self-managed teams
  • Visualize work and identify variances from efficiencies
  • Improve reporting accuracy

Next.

STEP2 Large-Scale Agile Implementation Support Services

Agile methodologies, tools, and Agile cultural knowledge for multiple teams of 50-125 people

What you will learn

  • Understanding the customer experience
  • How to map and reorganize value streams
  • Target areas for Lean improvement
    － Benefits of Agile at scale
  • Enterprise Agile planning methodology, deliverables, roles and ceremonies
    － How to align the business plan with the execution of work
  • Measuring the business value delivered to customers

What can be achieved

  • High level of visibility into all project work
  • Ability to improve cross-project teamwork while reducing handoffs and bottlenecks
  • Create agile planning roadmaps and A/B planning scenarios
  • Organize teams into larger “tribes”
  • Significantly increase productivity
  • Reduce work stoppages and other unforeseen events
  • Can reduce overtime costs and employee burnout

Next.

STEP3 Business Agile Implementation Support Services

Agile methodology for business planning, budgeting, and resource management

What You Will Learn.

  • Lean participatory budgeting and the use of ongoing fundraising techniques
  • Creation and dissemination of the product vision
  • How to create goals and key outcomes (OKRs)
  • Learn about enterprise-class planning tools that can integrate all levels of your business

What you can accomplish

  • Create smaller, concise plans that are easier to measure, budget, and execute, with less risk
  • Build faster, easier, more effective funding models to satisfy more stakeholders across multiple business units
  • Increase alignment at all levels to corporate goals
  • Measurable goal-setting techniques that enable continuous improvement
  • Full visibility and measurement of all planned, ongoing, and completed work
  • Easily leverage global resources toward common goals and shared tasks
  • Achieve full enterprise agility

Benefits of Implementing Enterprise Agile

Business Benefits

  • Proper budget management
  • Reduced reporting time
  • Elimination of organizational silos
  • Increased productivity
  • Significantly reduced time-to-market

Advantages in terms of development

  • Identification of bottlenecks through status visualization
  • Excellent planning
  • Product development tailored to customer needs
  • Reduced rework
  • More accurate measurements

Employee Benefits

  • Improved teamwork
  • High degree of individual and team initiative
  • Reduced paperwork
  • Reduced stress
  • Clear goal setting

Effects of implementation

10-50% increase in employee satisfaction

10-50% improvement in employee satisfaction

  • コミュニケーションと透明性の確保
    全員がチームとして効果的に働けるように
  • 強力なツールにより、完全なオンライン環境でもコラボレーションが可能に
  • 従業員は自分の仕事が会社や顧客にとってどのような価値があるのかを理解できている
Quality 25-75% improvement

25-75% improvement in quality

  • 明確な計画があれば、誰がいつ何をすべきかを正確に把握することができる
  • 継続的な改善意識は生産性を高める効果がある
  • チームは中断する事なく、仕事に集中することができる
Time-to-market reduced by 30-75%.

30-75% reduction in time-to-market

  • リーンアジャイル方式は、チームが継続的に品質を向上させていることを意味する
  • 報告・追跡ツールでミスを防止し、製品ビジョンと支出を一致させる
  • お客さまが求めているものを正確に作る
20-50% increase in productivity

20-50% increase in productivity

  • 作業を分解することで、より頻繁にリリースすることができる
  • スケジュール管理、チームワークの向上により、短時間でより多くの仕事をこなせるようになる
  • システムの一元化と共有を効率的に行い、仕事に集中できる

Why choose Ricksoft's "Step-Up Agile with Jira" service?

We are Scaled Agile Framework certified SAFe program consultants with a variety of skills and experience.

Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner

Ricksoft is a top-level Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner in Japan.

"Jira", the core tool of Atlassian products, is the No. 1 agile project management tool used by agile teams, with approximately 70% market share among agile development teams.
It is a flexible and highly connected project software with approximately 3,000 applications available.

We also offer “Jira Align” as a tool to support companies that are taking on the challenge of changing from agile development to agile management.

Platform Partner of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Ricksoft Co., Ltd. is a Scaled Agile Platform Partner certified by Scaled Agile, Inc. By integrating a SAFe®-compliant enterprise platform with development tools like Atlassian products, we enable seamless visualization from strategy to execution and enhance organizational agility in large-scale agile development.

Enterprise Agile

Enterprise Agile is best done based on an established and proven framework to produce positive results, but you don't have to “transform” your company all at once.

Ricksoft can help you migrate your team to an Agile methodology using the Lean-Agile continuous improvement methodology and an agreed-upon roadmap with a clear and sustainable scope.

Ricksoft also offers best-in-class service and support for all of its products, as well as ongoing “high-touch” support and consulting services.

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