Align Business and Delivery

Align Business and Delivery:
Use Case Overview

White Paper

Read this white paper for an overview of how ValueOps’ capabilities help you bridge the gap between business strategies and delivery plans to achieve synergy, streamline processes and improve customer outcomes.

Clarity Custom Investments Align Business and Delivery by by Maximizing Investment Alignment Using a
Customized Approach

Clarity Custom Investments enable leaders to create a specialized category of investment that organizations can define according to their specific needs and requirements and align with the organization’s business processes and workflows. By using Custom Investments, organizations have the flexibility to mirror their unique investment management practices to ensure that ValueOps effectively supports their business operations such as Strategic Themes or Objectives along with Projects or Initiatives.

Watch this video to see how Clarity Administrators create custom investments.

Watch this video to see how Clarity Administrators create custom blueprints for custom investment types.

Watch this video to learn how to create custom investment items in Clarity.

For more detailed information on how you can use Clarity Custom Investments to maximize investment alignment using a customized approach, click here.

Clarity Roadmaps Align Business and Delivery by Bridging the Gap Between Strategic Planning
and Execution

Clarity Roadmaps help to break down organizational silos, ensuring everyone has the same information. They allow organizations to visualize and communicate the overall strategy in a way that is easy to understand, while conveying relationships and dependencies between investments, when capabilities are planned to be delivered, and progress across all teams.

Watch this video to learn how to create, configure and use Clarity Roadmaps to align business and delivery in your organization. 

For more detailed information on how you can use Clarity Roadmaps to bridge the gap between strategic planning and execution in your organization, click here.

Clarity Staffing Workspace Aligns Business and Delivery by Providing Visibility
into Resources

Clarity’s Staffing Workspace provides visibility into resource allocations to help ensure the organization can operate at realistic utilization levels, optimizing the ability to deliver without compromising the need to retain flexibility for necessary adjustments. This transparency makes it easier to plan future capability needs, ensuring that there is no compromise in the ability to deliver all work against all strategic goals.

Watch this video to learn how to set up and use the Staff grid in the Clarity Staffing Workspace.

Watch the following video to learn how to set up and use the Clarity Staffing Workspace to analyze resource requirements for an entire organization.

Watch this video to learn how to work with the Allocations and Assignments tabs in the Clarity Staffing Workspace.

For more detailed information on how to use the Clarity Staffing Workspace to provide visibility into resources to align business and delivery, click here.

ValueOps ConnectALL Aligns Business and Delivery by Bridging the Gap between Strategic Planning
and Execution

ConnectAll adapters harness data from third-party tools used within the value stream and provide a comprehensive, real-time view of work progress. ValueOps ConnectALL becomes the data hub of disparate systems across an organization’s technology infrastructure. It ensures every function, process, and workflow essential to strategic success is easily accessible, traceable, and manageable from a centralized solution.

Watch this video to learn how to use ValueOps ConnectALL adapters and automations to bridge the gap between strategic planning and execution to align business and delivery in your organization. 

Watch this video to learn how to set up automations using ValueOps ConnectALL’s Value Stream Canvas to bridge the gap between strategic planning and execution to align business and delivery in your organization. 

For more detailed information on how you can use ValueOps ConnectALL to bridge the gap between strategic planning and execution to align business and delivery in your organization, click here.

ValueOps Insights Aligns Business and Delivery by Closing Data Gaps for Decision-Making

ValueOps Insights provides leaders with valuable software performance. ValueOps Insights collects data from multiple platforms and applications across value streams to provide decision makers with actionable dashboards. These dashboards reflect normalized data aggregated from the diverse range of tools used within the organization. ValueOps Insights closes the data gap and ensures that every report and leadership decision is based on essential, consistent information from all organizational silos.

For more detailed information on how ValueOps Insights leverages accurate investment performance data to close data gaps for decision making needed to align business and delivery, click here.

ValueOps OKRs Aligns Business and Delivery by Defining and Tracking
Metrics That Matter

ValueOps OKRs provide a structured approach to goal setting and alignment, driving focus, accountability, and results.  ValueOps OKRs can be synchronized across business and delivery groups ensuring each stakeholder can see the same status metrics in a context that is relevant for them, allowing them to make the best decisions for their own groups in parallel with the organization.  This fosters a shared understanding of status and progress toward value optimization.

Rally Team Board Flow Metrics Align Business and Delivery by Bridging Strategic Planning and Execution

Comprehensive team flow metrics provide insight into the work being completed and confirm alignment with the strategic priorities and the need to optimize value across and throughout value streams. The comprehensive view into everything that is happening means that adjustments and changes can be planned for and analyzed with confidence that the impact on the portfolio is fully understood. 

Watch the following video to learn how to use Rally Team Board Flow Metrics to bridge strategic planning and execution in your organization. 

For more detailed information on how you can use Rally Team Board Flow Metrics to bridge strategic planning and execution to align business and delivery, click here.

Rally Insights Aligns Business and Delivery by Defining and Tracking Metrics That Matter

Rally Insights provide flow metrics at all levels of the business, from portfolio to team, enabling organizations to pinpoint problem areas early.  By analyzing these aggregated flow metrics, organizations can identify opportunities to streamline processes, eliminate low value functions and deliver ongoing improvements into the value stream, as well as develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the relationships between strategy and execution throughout the entire enterprise.

Watch this video to learn how to use Rally Insights (SDPI) Metrics to define and track metrics that matter in your organization.

Watch this video to learn how to use the Rally Insights Flow Metrics and Dependencies data to define and track metrics that matter in your organization.

For more detailed information on how you can use Rally Insights to define and track metrics that matter to align business and delivery in your organization, click here.

Rally Capacity Planning Aligns Business and Delivery by Helping Organizations Scale Alignment and Adaptability

When organizations are growing, planning becomes more complex, especially around capacity.  Capacity Planning allows teams and teams of teams, to create multiple what-if-scenarios and plans, without making any changes to artifacts or execution data for the teams currently delivering approved work. It enables planners to understand what the realistic capacity is and where potential bottlenecks and barriers to delivery lie.

Watch this video to understand the concept of Capacity Planning.

Watch this video to learn how to prepare for capacity planning, create a single release capacity plan, and add teams and portfolio items to the plan.

Watch this video to learn how to assign and allocate work to teams in a capacity plan.

Watch this video to understand common errors you might encounter when creating your plan or when you are assigning or allocating work among teams in the plan and how to resolve them.

Watch this video to learn how to publish an approved capacity plan and use it to track the progress of your plan during a given timebox.

For more detailed information on how to use Rally Capacity Planning to help your organization to scale alignment and adaptability, click here.

Clarity Hierarchies Align Business and Delivery by Scaling Alignment for Organizational Success

Utilizing Clarity Hierarchies, organizations can create collections of work in one single place, allowing the coexistence of different ways of working such as traditional waterfall projects and agile projects. Clarity Hierarchies provide transparency into the organization and its business goals, as well as allow teams to track progress and validate that they are delivering value. Work can be directly associated within a hierarchy, allowing organizations to transition from strategy to delivery in the way that works for them, without compromising the ability to visualize roll ups and alignment.

Watch this video to learn how to use Clarity Hierarchies to scale alignment for organizational success in your organization.

For more detailed information on how you can use Clarity Hierarchies to scale alignment for organizational success, click here.

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