Case Study: Parker Hannifin achieves visual-to-Jira execution and improved team alignment with Gliffy Project

Parker Hannifin - Customer Case Study

Parker Hannifin, a global leader in motion and control technologies, faced a coordination challenge while building software to connect energy grids and cloud databases for real‑time pump monitoring and predictive maintenance. Senior Project Manager Scott Theus needed a way to translate high‑level dependency maps into actionable work—linking gateways, data lakes, parsing and analysis steps—so distributed teams could see priorities, dependencies, and deliverables clearly and turn diagrams into tracked Jira work.

Using Gliffy Project in its beta, Scott created macro dependency diagrams with detailed insets and hotspots that map directly to epics, stories, and tasks in Jira. The visual approach made it easy to tag and share work, allocate team hours, and show task order and links, resulting in clearer planning, simpler tracking, and positive early adoption that Parker expects to scale across teams.

Parker Hannifin

Scott Theus

Senior Project Manager