Agile Program Management

Agile Program Planning provides a structure to carry out quarterly planning, providing teams with a way to visualize, plan, and coordinate organizational initiatives quickly, effectively, and with clear insight into the value delivered.

Agile Program Delivery provides a structure within which Agile teams of teams can deliver on their program plan.

• We can visualize all planned and unplanned features on a program kanban board.​

• We can customize kanban boards to reflect the existing processes for each program.​

• We can break down epics into features, adding them to the program backlog and estimating size/value/complexity as appropriate.​

• We can dynamically prioritize and sequence features in the context of size, value and team capacity/velocity considerations.​

• We can easily and effectively carry out both in-person or virtual quarterly planning. We can use the visualization of the kanban boards to balance priorities, sequence work, and communicate realistic delivery timelines.​

• We can carry out visual capacity planning at the program level by utilizing work-in-progress limits on the program kanban board.​

• We have a systematic way of tracking how efficiently teams can deliver work within a fixed period of time (e.g., a Program Increment) and can use this data to inform future capacity planning and management.​

• We can create program objectives, aligned with portfolio-level objectives, and associate the relevant key results for tracking.​

• We can measure the progress of program OKRs by capturing associated metrics for the key result score and rolling up the objective.​

• We can track the activity history for the Key Result progress changes for auditability.​

• We can align work activities with program OKRs by connecting key results to LeanKit cards.​

• We can easily visualize connections between and across programs to understand dependencies, proactively anticipate issues, and mitigate risks.​

• We can understand if planned features are tracking to completion goals and see the impact of any unplanned features, including the likelihood of achieving planned delivery dates.​

• We can foster continuous improvement with insights and analytics into delivery trends across the team of teams.

• We can measure effectiveness, identify (and remove) bottlenecks, predict potential future issues, and adapt program workflow to optimize performance.​