Enterprise Agile Planning

Rearchitect planning and funding processes to be more incremental and continuous. Leverage Lean Portfolio Management as a key enabler in connecting strategy to delivery and increasing enterprise agility.

• Analyze Lean business cases to incrementally fund value streams and products and leverage real-time feedback loops to make quick pivot decisions.
• Easily break down work into actionable plans; prioritize epics, fund value streams and pivot faster.
• Incrementally fund value streams, products and/or initiatives to achieve the desired outcomes.

Foster an outcome-based approach to strategy and delivery by establishing a clear line of sight into OKRs and their associated work, from the portfolio to the teams, all within a single solution.

• Architect, structure and monitor objectives and key results to realize business outcomes at every level – portfolio, value stream, program, and team.
• Ensure funding, budgeting and capacity align to the key results that achieve the outcomes your organization seeks.

Leverage customized criteria to visually and relatively rank work on the dimensions that match your goals. Provide transparency and confidence around priorities to give your organization clarity on what work should be approved, avoided and/or further researched.

• Easily display prioritization results visually on cards on team and program boards.
• Create custom ranking criteria to determine the priorities that matter most to you and your organization.
• Visualize priorities and their relevance to each other.

Host Lean Coffee meetings, incremental planning sessions, retrospectives and more using a virtual canvas to facilitate conversations and share ideas. Transfer cards into team boards to put ideas or plans into action.

• Quickly build out ideas, discussion points or action plans across internal or external stakeholders.
• Divide the canvas into relevant sections, vote on ideas, and add notes.
• Leverage the built-in timer to keep conversations and discussion on track.

Do Program Increment (PI) Planning or quarterly planning to plan, coordinate and deliver work across multiple teams leveraging visual Kanban boards to manage, track and connect work.

• Connect teams working in a mix of Agile tools and configurations with a single, highly configurable program or teams-of-teams board for cross-team planning and collaboration.
• Use the visualization of the Kanban boards to balance priorities, sequence work, and communicate realistic delivery.
• Leverage visual “red strings” to highlight dependencies and sequence work accordingly to alleviate risks.
• Quickly create new lanes, card types and board types to better reflect work flows and work delivery needs.

No matter what tool teams use, Planview’s Agile integrations give Agile teams tool choice and flexibility, enabling them to deliver faster and to achieve the benefits of Agile more rapidly at scale.

• Connect multiple delivery teams using disparate Agile execution tools and processes.
• Drive portfolio alignment and stakeholder feedback by creating visibility into the flow of work and enabling collaboration across teams to ensure alignment with company initiatives.
• Give teams the ability to define their own processes and leverage existing Agile execution tools and work methodologies.

Give your Agile teams a way to visualize, plan, coordinate, and deliver your organization’s biggest initiatives quickly, effectively, and with clear insight into the value delivered.

• Effectively bring together and visually manage the work of multiple teams.
• Map dependencies between teams and ARTs with visual “strings”.
• Drag and drop cards to sequence features and stories based on capacity and other key milestones.
• Gain visibility, insight, and an understanding of work in progress and workflow across Agile teams and ARTs.
• Leverage built-in Lean and Agile metrics to understand how teams are tracking and performing.

Gain insight into value delivered across your value streams with real-time financial metrics. See how allocated funding based on outcome-driven indicators and KPIs is delivered across the portfolios and value streams.

• Set the value stream budget and define benefits/revenue targets that the portfolio must generate.
• Access funding changes and funding allocations over time, compare and analyze results.