Agile Program Management
Agile Program Management
The Agile Program Management capability’s enablers include Program Backlog Management, Team of Teams Planning and Management, and Program Execution. Each capability within the Planview Capability Framework has a distinct set of features and functionality, business processes, best practices, and analytics and reports that deliver value to customers in the form of specific business outcomes.
Agile Program Management Business Outcomes
Program Backlog Management
- We can visualize all planned and unplanned features on a program Kanban board.
- We can customize Kanban boards to reflect each program’s preferred processes.
- We can break down epics into features, adding them to the program backlog and estimating size, value, or complexity as appropriate.
Teams of Teams Planning and Management
- 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 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 easily visualize connections between and across teams to understand dependencies, proactively anticipate issues, and mitigate risks.
- We can carry out visual capacity planning at the program level by utilizing work-in-progress limits on the program Kanban board.
- We can systematically track how efficiently teams of teams can deliver work within a fixed period (e.g., a Program Increment) and use this data to inform future capacity planning and management.
Program Execution
- We can see if planned features are tracking with completion goals, the impact of any unplanned features, and 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, anticipate future issues, and adapt program workflow to optimize performance.
Agile Program Management Processes
Agile Program Management allows your teams of teams to track and manage program backlogs, quarterly planning, and the program plan. To achieve this, all work is visualized on program Kanban boards aligned to a preferred work methodology and process. Teams of teams can see backlogged and current work in the program plan and coordinate organizational initiatives quickly, effectively, and with clarity into the value delivered.
Related Capabilities
Agile Team Delivery
This capability empowers your team to execute work according to their preferred methodology and processes with customizable Kanban boards. Integration of agile team tools is supported so your team can work how they want while seeing all planned and pre-planned work.
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This capability provides a framework for defining, aligning around, executing, and measuring progress toward key organizational goals, linking organizational and team goals to measurable outcomes in a hierarchical way.
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This capability provides the mechanism to set time-phased capacity budgets or targets, and sequence epics across defined timeboxes to align with team capacity. This provides a framework to analyze demand and make assessments on the ability to continue with or take on new epics.
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Supported Solutions
Agile Program Management
Designed with the growing agile organization in mind, Planview’s Agile Program Management solution gives your agile teams a way to visualize, plan, coordinate, and deliver your organization’s biggest initiatives in an accelerated and predictable way.
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Planview’s Enterprise Agile Planning solution provides a scalable enterprise-level lean portfolio management, agile program management, and agile delivery platform that enables planning and value delivery from the strategic portfolio level to the agile team.
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