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Agile Your Way 1
Ease of Adoption 2
Ability to Scale 3
Project Visualization 4
Strategic Planning 5
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Agile
Your Way
No two agile implementations are the
same. And no agile implementation
ever remains the same. Over time your
agile processes will scale and evolve
and youll need a tool that is flexible
enough to adapt with you. Steer clear
of any tool that tries to impose a
pre-defined, one-size-fits-all approach
(even if the vendor claims to know
better than you) it will come back to
haunt you.
Considerations
Customizable methodology
templates and terminology to align
with how you do agile
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Easy to Adopt
Shelfware as a service is unfortunately
alive and well in many organizations.
You run the risk of jeopardizing your
entire agile initiative if you choose a
tool that a) teams dont like and b)
doesnt fully support your agile
processes from inception to delivery.
Dont waste a year paying for a tool
that will be left to gather (virtual) dust.
Involve ALL of your key stakeholders in
your evaluation and select a tool that
will accelerate, not impede, your
broader adoption of agile.
Considerations
Agile process-based navigation
designed to accelerate adoption
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Simple to Scale
You might be starting out small with a
few teams, but envision what it will be
like when youve implemented agile
across your entire organization. As the
number of projects and teams increas-
es, youll potentially have thousands of
stories, defects, epics, and issues to
keep track of. And with distributed
teams in different locations and time
zones, it will get very chaotic very
quickly without a solution in place that
can grow with you over time.
Considerations
All-in-one solution that supports
the complete agile lifecycle from
inception to delivery
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Project
Visualization
As your agile initiative grows, so too
does the complexity of managing it.
With so much project data flying
around, it can be hard make sense of it
all, especially when things keep chang-
ing. Sometimes you just cant see the
forest for the trees. Whether its track-
ing work items, understanding relation-
ships and dependencies, or re-planning
on the fly as business priorities change,
youll struggle to keep pace without a
scalable enterprise agile tool to help
you.
Considerations
Visual drag-and-drop epic, story,
task, and test boards for simplified
project tracking
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Strategic
Planning
When strategy and execution dont
align the outcome is never good.
Management decisions about the right
business initiatives to focus on need to
be closely aligned with the teams and
projects needed to make it happen.
Look for a tool that simplifies high-level
planning and makes it easy to track the
progress of your business initiatives.
And make sure it helps you connect the
dots between the portfolio, program
and team levels to keep everyone
focused on the top organizational
priorities.
Considerations
Decision support capabilities for
portfolio level planning based on
business value and risk
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Managing
Complexity
Sooner or later youll reach a tipping
point when managing multiple projects
and teams will feel like its spiraling out
of control. How are you going to coor-
dinate program delivery, track progress
and report on overall status? How are
you going to strike the balance
between process consistency and
letting your teams work the way they
want? And what about cross-project
teams? If it sounds complex it is
unless you have the right tool in place
to help you.
Considerations
Configurable project and program
management to match your orga-
nizational structure with rollup
reporting
Considerations
A wealth of best practice, pre-pack-
aged agile metrics and reports to
get you started
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Enterprise
Collaboration
Collaboration and communication are
essential to agile success, whether its at
the team-level, enterprise-wide or with
customers. Yet with distributed teams,
changing priorities, and accelerated
delivery cycles, keeping everyone on
the same page is more challenging than
ever. Helping people and teams collab-
orate more effectively, regardless of
location, needs to be front and center
and not an afterthought.
Considerations
Team-level collaboration enabling
rapid communication and decision
making amongst team members
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3rd Party
Integration
Theres not one tool out there that can
do everything. Build out your internal
ecosystem with tools that work well
together, and integrate your agile
management solution to create a
unified environment. Watch out for
proprietary integration platforms that
limit what tools you can integrate with
and hamper your ability to extend
individual integrations to better suit
your needs.
Considerations
Open, web-services API with .Net
and Java SDKs
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Deployment
Flexibility
Dont let deployment options (or lack
of) be a show stopper in selecting the
right enterprise agile tool for your
organization. Decide what makes the
most sense to support your IT require-
ments software on-premise or in the
cloud and make sure youre not
locked into that choice if your needs
change. Whether its for peace of mind
or corporate governance, you should be
able to manage your software the way
you want.
Considerations
Flexibility to choose the deploy-
ment approach thats right for your
organization
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So there you have them.
The 10 essentials for agile tooling.
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