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In order to maximize value from an agile deployment, six key criteria should be considered when selecting an enterprise
management tool:
3. Cross-Functional Teams
True support for cross-functional teams means consolidating and facilitating the project planning and
tracking needs of customers, product management, project management, programmers, testers, etc. in a
single environment for improved collaboration and consistency.
4. Flexible Configuration
No two organizations operate in the exact same manner when it comes to organizational structure,
terminology, product planning, project scheduling and tracking, and reporting. Any scalable management
tool should accommodate this type of flexibility and allow organizations to define, organize, and plan
according to their unique organizational requirements.
5. Simplicity
While complex needs may arise, the necessity to provide team members with a simple, straightforward
planning, tracking, and reporting system is critical for broad-based success. Like Agile development,
the more simple the tool the better. Most importantly, tools should never replace the benefits achieved
from daily planning, face-to-face communication, product reviews and retrospectives. An Agile lifecycle
management tool is only as good as the process it facilitates and the people that use it.
6. Enterprise Scale
An agile tool for deployment within an enterprise must be able to handle a sophisticated project structure
and thousands of features and defects. In larger deployments, key concerns include both ease-of-use and
support for thousands of items flowing through an agile lifecycle with minimal overhead.
With these criteria in mind, the Evaluator Guide outlines a detailed set of features an enterprise Agile management
application should enable for scaling Agile planning, tracking, and reporting across your organization. Highlighted is
both functionality needed as you begin to implement an Agile management tool and longer range functionality that
you will benefit from as your Agile process matures.
1. Local installation or hosted, “on-demand” deployment options for teams of any size
2. Configurable methodology templates (Scrum, XP, AgileUP, DSDM, Custom)
3. License and subscription pricing alternatives
4. Full Agile lifecycle support (features, defects, tests, tasks, impediments,…)
5. 100% web-based deployment for distributed teams and locations
6. Customizable project hierarchy to match your unique organizational and/or reporting structure
7. Simple, drag-and-drop planning and prioritization
8. Comprehensive management reporting and executive-level dashboards
9. Open, web services API
10. Expert training and implementation assistance
In addition to this critical Top 10 list, the following pages of the Evaluator Guide offer detail that is important
to companies comparing the benefits and features of Agile tools. If you have any questions regarding the
capabilities outlined within this document or how VersionOne can assist in your Agile deployment, please contact
us at info@VersionOne.com.
Capability Matrix
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Reopen Features, Defects, Requests, and Issues Reopen if additional work required
Flexible Filtering Display information by status, owner, priority, feature
group, etc.
Column Sorting Click on column to sort by any value
Define Hierarchical Feature Group Rollups For planning and rollup reporting
Assign Features to Feature Group Drag-and-drop assignment
Bulk Edit/Apply Changes Update multiple records in a table and apply all
changes at once
Undo/Reset Unapplied Changes
Multi-select Move, Close, Reopen & Delete of Easily move or edit multiple items at a time
Items
Customizable Planning Grids Configure grids to display specific fields
Multi-Level Estimation Estimate features and defects in one unit and tasks
in another
Release Planning
Simple, Drag-and-Drop Release Planning
Environment
Estimate & Assign Features and Defects to Easily drag-and-drop features and defects on to
Projects/Releases releases / projects
Rank Features & Defects within Projects Drag-and-drop ranking
Multi-select Assignment of Features and Move multiple items between projects all at once
Defects to Projects
Display Project & Release Summary Information View total and remaining estimates
Assign and Track Requests by Project or Release
Assign and Track Issues by Project or Release
Assign Items to Teams within Projects Track features, defects, issues and requests within
project, release, or team
Easily Add New Releases and Projects
Define Cross-Project Feature Dependencies
Customize Release Planning Pages Configure grids to display specific fields
Sprint/Iteration Planning
Simple, Drag-and-Drop Iteration
Planning Environment
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