BigPicture Enterprise addresses the needs of large-scale organizations; it enhances the way projects and portfolios are managed by delivering high-level PPM features. The ‘BPE’, as we call it at SoftwarePlant, adds an unlimited number of Box types, enterprise-level reporting, ‘Show overall assignment’ sort of features, and more. Let’s enumerate what the Enterprise extension adds on top of the regular BigPicture.
Table 1: BigPicture vs. BigPicture Enterprise
Note: BigPicture Enterprise cannot live alone. So you choose between the ‘Jira + BigPicture’ suite and the ‘Jira + BigPicture + BigPicture Enterprise’ one.
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Overview module
with three predefined Box types Starting BigPicture 7.10, the Program Manager is renamed ‘Overview’. |
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Unlimited configuration of Box types. Create new Box types.
Think of Boxes as high-level, custom containers/parent items, such as portfolios, phases, ARTs. They behave depending on how you program them. |
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Re-label modules
For instance, re-label ‘Gantt’ to ‘Schedule’ or ‘Roadmap’. Relabeling works per Box or per Box type. What’s the difference? |
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| Scope – a standalone work breakdown structure module | |
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| Roadmap module | |
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| Gantt module | |
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| one public and one private scenario per Box | unlimited number of private and public scenarios per Box | |
| Resources module | |
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Workload contouring
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Flat, Front-loaded, Back-loaded modes | Flat, Front-loaded, Back-loaded, and Manual modes |
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Show overall assignment
Once checked, you can observe a cross-project, cross-Box resources view, for both individuals and teams |
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| Board module | |
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Synchronize Program Increment (PI) #
with a custom field of your choice residing in Jira issue detail view. Set this 2-way synchronization for all teams (Shared), specific teams (Team specific), or disable the sync at all. |
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Risks module
Risks matrix and risks register |
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| Teams module | |
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Integration with Tempo
Synchronize BigPicture’s Workload Plans, Holiday Plans, Teams, and Skills with their counterparts in Tempo Timesheets, Planner, Budgets. |
available for Server and Data Center hostings |
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| Calendar module | |
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Reports module
Use five predefined progress measuring drill-down/drill-through reports. Choose their format: bar/pie charts, spreadsheet-like reports. |
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| Add new multi-level drill-down and drill-through reports. Customize the grid of the Reports module. | |
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Configurable menu view
Customize the BigPicture plugin’s drop-down menu – the one that integrates with Jira’s main menu. |
available for Server and Data Center hostings |
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Select the geographic location of your data server
GDPR in the European Union and various US regulators may require that you store your data in a home country or region. The feature will be available soon. Read more |
available for Cloud hosting |
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Project Management methodologies |
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| Both BigPicture and BigPicture Enterprise let you practice a methodology of your choice, such as SAFe, LeSS, AgilePM, PMBoK, PRINCE2, and more. Differences become apparent once you try to blend more than one methodology in a portfolio(s), including in-home, custom-developed methodologies. Three slots available in the regular BigPicture might constitute a bottleneck. BigPicture Enterprise does not have this limit, therefore the Enterprise edition is safer if you practice many methodologies in one organization. | ||
| Number of available Box type slots | 3 | unlimited |
| Preconfigured Box types | Program Program Increment Iteration |
Agile project Classic project Hybrid project Hybrid stage Iteration LeSS Requirement Area Portfolio Program Program Increment SAFe ART Stage |
| Can users edit existing Box types? | |
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| Can users add new Box types, beyond the predefined ones? | |
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Business, technical data & Pricing |
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| Hosting types | Cloud, Server, Data Center | |
| Works with | Jira Software, Jira Core, Jira Service Desk | |
| Jira Cloud, 1000 users tier, Atlassian Marketplace | $0.91/user/month | $0.91/user/month |
| Jira Server, 100 users, Atlassian Marketplace | $2000/instance (50% of that to renew) pricing |
$2000/instance (50% of that to renew) pricing |
| User rating (stars), Atlassian Marketplace | 3.2/4 | 3.6/4 |
| Developer | SoftwarePlant, Cloud Security Participant | |
Boxes in BigPicture Enterprise
The video presents the way Boxes are in BigPicture Enterprise.
Also, check ‘BigPicture Enterprise version 7’ video. Fragments remain valid.
Who uses what
Roughly 20% of BigPicture license holders have the Enterprise extension added on top. When looking at user counts, however, we assume that 50% of the 3 million individuals who use BigPicture every day have access to the Enterprise edition. It’s because blue-chips, and large companies with a distributed workforce, rely on BPE heavily.
Read more: 6 signs your organization should upgrade to BigPicture Enterprise.
Apr 2021
Firstly, Project Manager vs Product Manager vs Product Owner. The Product-centric roles seem to be more lucrative and future-proof than the Project Manager profession. Let’s compare them.
Mar 2021
Secondly, How to select the right Scaling agile methodology for your organization? How do SAFe, DAD, LeSS, and Scrum of Scrums differ from each other? Do some of them fit certain industries or sizes of organizations better than others? How popular are they? Read more.
Feb 2021
Thirdly, what is the true cost of PPM software implementation? Traditional vs. hidden costs. How to reduce the latter? Read more
The Atlassian ecosystem is going through some major changes, and we are not staying behind. We want to offer continuous support to our users in their migration journey to new solutions. Hence, we are developing a migration support solution. Therefore, we will offer backup and restore options for Jira Server/DC and Cloud. With backup possibility, we also expand our family of tools to connect. We have already connected the BigPicture app with Trello team boards. We also want to connect Azure DevOps projects and Jira Server/DC instances. We also plan to connect with GitLab, Microsoft Planner, and Google Calendar.
Our first and foremost priority is user experience. We strive to even out the performance of modules containing large tasks and resources and shorten their loading time. Our next goal is to improve the performance of key functionalities, like scheduling and planning within modules. We want to make BigPicture even more transparent and user-friendly by enhancing sorting, filtering, grouping, and searching functionalities. Key operations will be amplified and multiplatformed for the data across the Box modules and other screens.
The more information you can gather, the better. Raw data is not enough. That’s why we focus on better visualization by powering the Reports module. It will present data such as cross-team dependencies, predictability reports, velocity charts, work progress reports, or team availability reports, to name a few. This is just a beginning, as we aim to expand the range of report widgets successively.
