The Portfolio

Whether you are a Product Manager monitoring the delivery of Epics, a Project or Release Manager monitoring one or more Project Releases or a Programme Manager monitoring an entire Portfolio, you realise that clear, consistent and reliable data is required to keep you in control.

Adding to the challenge, you want to optimise your existing resources and minimise delays to revenue.

To help, the Agile Companion^™ Toolkit can provide you with clear reports through a high level of automation from which data-driven decisions can be made to optimise your time to market.

The Train

As a Release Train Engineer you will feel totally accountable for helping the Train achieve a credible, realistic PI Plan. Having secured a committed Plan, data oriented leadership of the Train is essential to delivering these commitments. Whilst your stakeholders look on eagerly, managing their expectations and seeking their assistance is another daily challenge.

The Agile Companion^™ Toolkit can provide you with tailored Reports for your Train and stakeholders, helping you lead them to success.

The Teams

As Product Owner, Scrum Master or Team Member you are all totally invested in the success of the Team. Yet you find yourself in a complex environment of cross-Team dependencies, technical challenges and moving dates. Knowing what is critical can be a daily challenge.

The Agile Companion^™ Toolkit can provide you with ACTionable information from the level of your Team to the bigger picture, helping you deliver yours and the Train's commitments.

During Planning

PI Planning is a time when everyone comes together to focus on the next Program Increment. It is an exceptionally busy time. During this period it is critical that the planning ceremonies are furnished with clear, consistent data. Decisions made during planning can make or break the forthcoming PI.

Whether these be overcommitments or missing critical dependencies, the Agile Companion^™ Toolkit can provide everyone involved with clear, consistent Reports to help ensure efficent dialogue.

During the PI

Movements in the plan are almost inevitable. Understanding the impact of movements underpins making the best decision. Clear, immediate transparency is critical. Extracting this information from your Agile Backlog in a clear, consistent way is critical to making the right decisions.

To help, the Agile Companion^™ Toolkit can provide you and your stakeholders with clear, tailored Reports detailing what has moved and where dependenices need special attention.

Inspecting & Adapting

The end of a PI is not the time to look at your journey through a crystal ball. Nor is it time to sweep the challenges of the last PI under the proverbial carpet and pretend they won't hamper you again. The opposite is highly likely. To help you, data probably already resides in your Agile Backlog.

Processing this data with the Agile Companion^™ Toolkit can help you understand in which direction you are trending, and what action to take next.