Agile Team Delivery
Agile Team Delivery
The Agile Team Delivery capability’s enablers include Team Backlog Management, Team Execution, and Team Integration. 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.
Enablers and Business Outcomes
Team Backlog Management
Provides a structure for agile teams to manage their backlog. This allows them to visualize, prioritize, and plan work activities that align to strategic priorities. Resulting business outcomes include:
- We can visualize planned and unplanned work on a team Kanban board.
- We can break down agile work into smaller increments to add to the team backlog, estimating size as appropriate.
- We can dynamically prioritize and sequence work by size, value, and team capacity considerations.
- We can ensure teams stay aligned with strategic priorities by connecting work on team boards to program and portfolio Kanban boards.
Team Execution
Supports agile teams to deliver on their team plans using Kanban boards that match their preferred work methodology and processes. Resulting business outcomes include:
- We can customize Kanban boards to reflect a team’s existing process or preferred work methodology, including Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, and more.
- We can see if planned work is tracking with completion goals, the impact of any unplanned work, and the likelihood of achieving planned delivery dates.
- We can track progress and assess efficiency with lean and agile metrics, including flow, velocity, throughput, and cycle time. These metrics can enact a culture of continuous improvement by adjusting boards to reflect any required process changes.
Team Integration
Supports connecting multiple agile team tools into Planview AgilePlace, including multiple affiliated instances of a given tool. This enables agile teams to visualize, plan, coordinate, and deliver their work together no matter where their work is tracked or how it’s managed. Resulting business outcomes include:
- We can give teams the flexibility to keep using agile execution tools they prefer or that are already tailored to support their processes.
- We can connect agile teams’ tools of choice into a program or teams-of-teams board, creating visibility into workflow, cross-collaboration, and alignment with portfolio priorities.
Best Practices
Center on continuous improvement
One of the main benefits of agile methodology is the understanding that incremental steps in the right direction will lead to vast improvement over time through an iterative, emergent process. Remember that change can be difficult, and results will not happen overnight, but driving with continuous improvement and sticking to the process will pay dividends over time.
Aim for Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Remember that the first iteration will never be perfect, and that’s intentional, as future iterations will leverage the team’s continued experience and feedback to optimize the improvement process. MVP lets teams quickly bring deliverables to the table, which enables the feedback, experience, and improvement processes.
Use what works
Different teams may need different tools or methodologies, and that’s encouraged within the agile framework. Some teams may need different timeboxes, others may not need any. Let teams work in a way that is most effective for them, whether that is Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, or another method.
Integrate tools
However your teams work, it’s important they are equipped with tools that support them and that organizational leaders still have line-of-sight into the work they are doing. Make sure your tools are integrated, making use of dashboards and onboard reporting, so that data is communicated and visualized in a single source of truth that is easy for all parties to use and understand.
Create cross-functional teams
Silos break down communication and cause delays for organizations. Eliminate silos altogether by implementing cross-functional teams that are grouped not based on similar job roles but instead on working together towards creating a specific value for the organization.
Limit Work-in-Progress (WIP)
Agile is not about fast, it’s about focus. Assigning team members too much work causes everything to be delayed. Team leaders must ensure tasks are broken down into small, achievable chunks, and that work-in-progress stays within a certain threshold, so that team members are not bogged down but can instead focus on one small task at a time.
Visualize work and blockers
The ability to quickly decipher what each team member is working on and determine the cause of unexpected delays is critical to on-time delivery and optimizing working processes. Use a work visualization strategy such as Kanban to be able to easily show work progress and identify bottlenecks.
Measure delivery time
Flow, throughput, scope, lead and cycle times are all different ways of measuring delivery time. Tracking these metrics can show where inefficiencies are occurring so that you can adjust accordingly, allowing the team to anticipate or eliminate these issues and bring value faster.
Processes and Reports
Agile team delivery empowers teams to view and execute planned work through the use of customizable Kanban boards. Teams create discrete user stories to describe and categorize their work, then estimate the effort needed to complete the work. Stories are prioritized and scheduled into an appropriate timebox, such as a sprint, and as work progresses, team members move cards across boards towards review or completion. Planview's agile integration capabilities allow organizations to integrate multiple agile team tools into Planview AgilePlace, so teams can work using their preferred methodology and processes.
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