Eliminate Organizational Waste

Eliminate Waste:
Use Case Overview

White Paper

Read this whitepaper for an overview of how ValueOps’ capabilities provide the tools needed to help your organization optimize resource and backlog management to ensure planning is synchronized with business priorities and strategy. 

ValueOps OKRs Eliminate Waste by Removing the Misalignment Between Strategy and Actual Work Within Your Organization

ValueOps OKRs help organizations move past output focused metrics and provide a value-based approach to performance measurement. OKRs allow all stakeholders to readily visualize and understand how their work contributes to the strategic goals and can see the progress they are making, helping them identify and eliminate waste while focusing all efforts on value delivery.

Clarity Roadmaps Eliminate Waste by Removing Misalignment Between Strategy and Actual Work

Clarity Roadmaps are powerful tools that support and align business and delivery teams as they plan and deliver value. When used as planning tools, decision-makers can readily view different options and decide which portfolio mix offers them the best ability to deliver. Dependencies and agreements can be added to ValueOps roadmaps, providing business and delivery teams with visibility into where potential bottlenecks may occur, allowing those to be managed more effectively. Similarly, duplication and overproduction potential can be viewed and addressed early and quickly.

Watch this video to learn how to create, configure and use Clarity Roadmaps to remove misalignment between strategy and actual work within your organization.

For more detailed information on how you can use Clarity Roadmaps to remove misalignment between strategy and actual work within your organization, click here.

Clarity’s Staffing Workspace Eliminates Waste by Optimizing Resource Management

Clarity’s Staffing Workspace visualizes work and resource demand over time, by individual, by role, across teams, etc. This helps to ensure allocations are balanced across the entire organization and all initiatives, preserving the ability to deliver on all strategic priorities. The Clarity Staffing page provides a comprehensive view, across all priorities and value streams, allowing business leaders to assign the right teams to each piece of work, benefiting the organization while also making it easier for employees to remain engaged and motivated.

Watch this video for an introduction to Resource Management and the Clarity Staffing Workspace.

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 detailed information about how to use Clarity’s Staffing Workspace to optimize resource management in your organization, click here.

Rally’s Portfolio Item Hierarchy Eliminates Waste by Improving Resource and Capacity Management

The Rally Portfolio Items Hierarchy allows organizations to integrate staffing information with a traditional hierarchy-based view of work. As a result, decision makers gain insight into how work rolls up to align with strategic goals of the business and how resources are contributing, their distribution, effort levels, etc.

Watch this video to learn how to use Rally’s Portfolio Items Hierarchy to improve resource and capacity management within your organization.

For more detailed information on how you can use Rally’s Portfolio Item Hierarchy to improve resource and capacity management in your organization, click here.

Rally’s Timeline Eliminates Waste by Improving Resource and Capacity Management

The Rally Timeline enables delivery execution leaders to work with resource owners earlier in the strategy cycle to optimize planned allocations across all initiatives. The Rally Timeline helps leaders balance resources to meet all strategic priorities while respecting the need for appropriate utilization rates. It also ensures the organization can retain flexibility in resourcing when adjustments are necessary. 

Watch this video to learn how to create, configure and use the Rally Timeline to improve resource and capacity management in your organization.

For more detailed information on how you can use the Rally Timeline to improve resource and capacity management in your organization, click here.

Rally Team Board Flow Metrics Eliminate Waste by Providing Teams with Visibility Needed
to Efficiently Manage
Risk and Change

Rally Team Board Flow Metrics indicate when bottlenecks are starting to develop, allowing users to rapidly understand why problems are occurring, analyze the root cause and address the issue. Teams can use these metrics to analyze cycle times and flow efficiency to help establish where backlogs are building up or where work queues are becoming higher risk. They also highlight areas of low value work and allow resources to be reallocated to more beneficial efforts that reduce the overall business risk to the enterprise.

Watch the following video to learn how to use Rally Team Board Flow Metrics to obtain the visibility needed to efficiently manage risk and change in your organization.

For more detailed information on how you can use Rally Team Board Flow Metrics to obtain the visibility needed to efficiently manage risk and change in your organization, click here.

Clarity’s Risk Management Eliminates Waste by Integrating Risk Management into
Work Management and
Portfolio Planning

Clarity’s Risk Management (Risks, Issues and Changes) capability allows stakeholders to categorize and track risks, issues and changes as part of their strategic plans. Using Clarity’s Risk, Issues, and Changes Investment Sub Objects, organizations can ensure risks, issues and changes become an integral part of how work is planned, approved, prioritized or delivered. Additionally, real-time metrics allow for early indication when things are changing around impact or likelihood to occur.

Watch the following video to learn how to use Clarity’s Risk, Issues, and Changes modules to integrate risk management into your organization’s work management and portfolio planning.

For more detailed information on how Clarity’s Risk Management capability can help your organization eliminate waste, click here.

Rally’s Risk Management Eliminates Waste by Optimizing Risk Management
for Work Delivery

Rally’s Risk management capability allows teams to capture, assess and track their risks, as well as associate individual risks with specific work items where appropriate. This allows for effective tracking, management and reporting throughout the delivery process. All stakeholders have visibility into those risks and can be confident that the execution teams are effectively and efficiently handling the potential exposure. It also ensures that risk related issues are considered when those stakeholders are looking at possible adjustments to maintain or improve alignment between priorities and work.

Watch the following video to learn how to use Rally’s Risk Management capability to optimize risk management for work delivery in your organization.

For more detailed information on how Rally’s Risk Management capability can help you optimize risk management for work delivery in  your organization, click here.

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