Manage Agile Hive Custom Fields
- Daniel Roller
Introduction
Agile Hive comes with a set of Jira Custom Fields to enable additional functionality related to working in a SAFe® context.
Creating Agile Hive Custom Fields
As a Jira administrator, navigate to the ‘Apps’ administration of your Jira Cloud site. Select ‘Agile Hive’ in the sidebar on the left and then go to the tab ‘Custom Fields’.
On this page you find an overview of all Custom Fields Agile Hive provides and the state of each of the fields for your Jira site. In case one or more Custom Fields are missing simply click the ‘Create Fields’ button to create any missing fields.
Missing Custom Fields
If one or more Custom Fields cannot be created they will display a SOME MISSING status. This is most likely due to the fact that another Custom Field with the same name already exists. This can be resolved by either deleting or renaming the Custom Field that already exists in your Jira instance.
Assigning Agile Hive Custom Fields with Jira projects and issues
There are two options when it comes to assigning a set of Agile Hive Custom Fields with your Jira projects and issues:
Make use of Agile Hive’s built-in Jira Screens, Screen Schemes, and Issue Type Screen Schemes to conveniently get started right away. In this case, please take a look at our Jira Administration | Step by Step Guide for Initial Setup.
Add the required Agile Hive Custom Fields to your existing projects' Screens to only extend your current project configurations. To go ahead with this approach, please refer to Configure Jira Projects For Use With Agile Hive | Minimum Required Project Configuration.
Agile Hive Custom Fields
Custom Fields for specific product features introduced with Agile Hive include:
General
The Custom Fields listed below provide functionality not dedicated to a specific issue type or functionality of Agile Hive. Availability and support for SAFe® layers and issue types may vary on a per-field basis.
Custom Field name | Available SAFe® project layers | Available Issue Types | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
PI Involvement readonly | ART | All default issue types | Displays planned PIs for an issue based on Jira’s Sprint field. For issues in projects on higher layers of SAFe® hierarchy, PI Involvement is derived from planned Sprints of all child issues. |
Assigned PIs | Large solution | Not available for issues configured for Milestone functionality in Agile Hive Project Settings | Users can select up to 5 PIs that the issue is assigned with. Value of this field will be used to include the issue in PI Reports. |
Owning Team | ART | All default issue types | Users can select up to one Team out of all Teams that are assigned with the ART that the issue belongs to. Value of this field will be used to display issues in the correct swimlane of ART Planning Board. |
Teams Involved readonly | ART | All default issue types | Lists all Teams that contribute at least one issue to the respective ART-level Feature. This information is automatically derived from Agile Hive issue hierarchy set in the ‘SAFe® Hierarchy’ issue panel. |
Objective
All Custom Fields listed below are available only for issues configured for Objective functionality in Agile Hive Project Settings. Also, Custom Fields listed below are only supported for projects on Large solution, ART, and Team level.
Custom Field name | Description |
|---|---|
Plan Business Value | Agile Hive field to capture the planned business value for an objective, aiding in prioritization and alignment with strategic goals. Users can select one option on a scale ranging from 0 to 10. |
Actual Business Value | Agile Hive field to track the realized business value achieved for an objective, providing insights into the actual impact and effectiveness of project outcomes. Users can select one option on a scale ranging from 0 to 10. |
Uncommitted Objective | Agile Hive field to indicate the commitment status of an objective, providing visibility into whether it is uncommitted or not. Users can set the field value to either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. |
Risk
In order for Risk Custom Fields to function properly, there may only exist exactly one Custom Field in your Jira site with name ‘Probability', ‘Impact’, ‘Residual Probability’, and ‘Residual Impact’.
All Custom Fields listed below are available only for issues configured for Risk functionality in Agile Hive Project Settings. Also, Custom Fields listed below are only supported for projects on Large solution, ART, and Team level.
To edit those fields we recommend using the Agile Hive Issue Context in the right-hand sidebar of Jira’s issue view.
Custom Field name | Description |
|---|---|
Probability | Agile Hive field to capture the likelihood of a risk occurring, aiding in risk assessment and mitigation planning. Values available for this field are ‘Very Unlikely’, ‘Unlikely’, ‘Likely’, ‘Very Likely', ‘Almost Certain’, and ‘Unspecified’. |
Impact | Agile Hive field to assess and record the potential consequences or significance of a risk, aiding in prioritization and mitigation planning. Values available for this field are ‘Insignificant’, ‘Minor’, ‘Moderate’, ‘Major’, ‘Catastrophic’, and ‘Unspecified’. |
Exposure readonly | Calculated automatically based on user input for Probability and Impact. See the table below for more details. |
Residual Probability | Agile Hive field to track the likelihood of a risk after implementing mitigation measures, enabling effective risk management and decision-making. Values available for this field are ‘Very Unlikely’, ‘Unlikely’, ‘Likely’, ‘Very Likely', ‘Almost Certain’, and ‘Unspecified’. |
Residual Impact | Agile Hive field to track the potential consequences or significance of a risk after implementing mitigation measures, facilitating ongoing risk management and decision-making. Values available for this field are ‘Insignificant’, ‘Minor’, ‘Moderate’, ‘Major’, ‘Catastrophic’, and ‘Unspecified’. |
Residual Exposure readonly | Calculated automatically based on user input for Residual Probability and Residual Impact. See the table below for more details. |
Formula for calculated (Residual) Exposure fields
| (Residual) Impact | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unspecified | Catastrophic | Major | Moderate | Minor | Insignificant | ||
(Residual) Probability | Unspecified | intermediate | intermediate | intermediate | intermediate | intermediate | intermediate |
Almost certain | intermediate | Extreme | High | High | High | High | |
Very likely | intermediate | High | High | High | High | medium | |
Likely | intermediate | High | High | High | medium | medium | |
Unlikely | intermediate | High | High | medium | medium | medium | |
Very Unlikely | intermediate | High | High | medium | medium | low | |
Milestone
All Custom Fields listed below are available only for issues configured for Milestone functionality in Agile Hive Project Settings. Custom Fields listed below are supported for projects on Portfolio, Large solution, ART, and Team level.
Custom Field name | Description |
|---|---|
Milestone Date | Agile Hive field to capture the due date for a milestone event. Users can select a single date using a Date Picker. |
WSJF
All Custom Fields listed below are available only for default issue types (this excludes issue types configured for Risk, Objective, and Milestone functionality in Agile Hive Project Settings). Custom Fields listed below are supported for projects on Portfolio, Large solution, and ART level.
Please note that for the WSJF Value field to properly calculate and display values all other fields listed below need to be set for an issue.
Custom Field name | Description |
|---|---|
User Business Value | Agile Hive field to capture the User Business Value for WSJF prioritization. Users can select one option from an adjusted fibonacci sequence: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100. |
RROE (Risk Reduction / Opportunity Enablement) | Agile Hive field to capture the Risk Reduction / Opportunity Enablement (RROE) for WSJF prioritization. Users can select one option from an adjusted fibonacci sequence: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100. |
Time Criticality | Agile Hive field to capture the Time Criticality for WSJF prioritization. Users can select one option from an adjusted fibonacci sequence: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100. |
Job Size | Agile Hive field to capture the Job Size for WSJF prioritization. Users can select one option from an adjusted fibonacci sequence: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100. |
WSJF Value readonly | Calculated automatically based on user input for User Business Value, RROE, Time Criticality, and Job Size. Please note that all WSJF fields listed above need to be set in order for WSJF Value to be calculated properly. |
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