Enhance Decision Making

Enhance Decision Making: Use Case Overview

White Paper

Read this white paper for an overview of how ValueOps’ capabilities provide the tools needed to increase the situational awareness and innovation necessary for you to define, model, measure, prioritize, and fund the most valuable initiatives for your customers

Rally Team Board Flow Metrics Enhance Decision Making by Providing Data-Driven Insights

Rally’s Team Board Flow Metrics provide visibility into real-time flow metrics that enable the organization to operate at optimal efficiency, while also ensuring that work is distributed evenly across teams and individuals. This helps drive engagement and productivity and eliminates both over- and under- utilization. This level of insight allows for rapid adjustments into areas where entire organizational processes can be improved and adapted.

Watch the following video to learn how to use Rally Team Board Flow Metrics to improve the flow of value through your value stream(s).  

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ValueOps ConnectALL Enhances Decision Making by Enabling Data-Driven Insights

ValueOps ConnectALL adapters and automations allow data to be synchronized across multiple systems. This helps maintain a single source of truth and contributes to the breakdown of departmental and functional silos, driving better and more informed decision making without compromising the ability for each group to operate. It serves as the linchpin for automations, seamlessly bridging the gaps between diverse software applications that organizations depend on to deliver value to customers. 

Watch this video to learn how to use ValueOps ConnectALL to synchronize data from multiple systems to manage value delivery. 

Watch this video to learn how to set up automations using ValueOps ConnectALL Value Stream Canvas:

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Clarity Hierarchies Enhance Decision Making by by Aligning Decision Makers

To support the ability to optimize organizational performance, an enterprise needs to define its business in the way it wants. Organizations have the ability to create multiple types of hierarchies using this functionality in Clarity; including value streams, products, objectives, portfolios, etc. These hierarchies are data models of projects, investments, and objectives that reflect the reality of how your business operates and investment funding works. These hierarchies enable decision makers to view investment portfolios at a macro level, without losing the ability to drill into details, or to view work in terms of time boxes or individual work hierarchies. 

Watch this video to learn how to use Clarity Hierarchies to enhance decision making within your organization:

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Rally Portfolio Items Hierarchies Enhance Decision Making by Improving Planning Across Multiple Teams and Programs

Rally’s Portfolio Item Hierarchy can be created to reflect the way an organization’s value delivery organization works. The Rally Portfolio Items page shows the hierarchical relationship between the work items needed to achieve the key results that support your organization’s strategic objectives. These hierarchies enable decision makers to view investment portfolios at a macro level, without losing the ability to drill into details. Because data is automatically aggregated from lower level work items, the Rally Portfolio Items page provides the transparency needed to drive data-based decisions.

Watch this video to learn how to use the Rally Portfolio Item Hierarchy to enhance decision making in your organization:

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Clarity Roadmaps Enhance Decision Making by Aligning Decision Makers

Clarity Roadmaps provide a clear, visual plan, detailing key milestones, features, and deadlines. Roadmaps align development teams and serve as communication tools, ensuring that everyone understands the product’s trajectory. They help prioritize investments, allocate resources effectively, and manage customer expectations by offering a tangible timeline for feature releases and updates. Clarity’s strategic, outcome based roadmaps enhance the understanding of organizational objectives and their alignment with programs. By providing a shared vision and fostering understanding, roadmaps significantly reduce friction within teams and across the organization.

Watch this video to learn how to create, configure and use Clarity Roadmaps to enable efficient decision making in your organization:

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The Rally Capacity Forecast Tool Enhances Decision Making by Aligning Decision Makers on Balanced Work Distribution

Organizations can produce sound estimates for future work, including the confidence levels for an estimate using the Rally Capacity Forecast tool. This tool uses the historical data of a team as the starting point and repeatedly samples the existing data to produce reliable estimates. The confidence levels provided by the tool help with assessing the risks of the forecast. The range of scores provided by the Capacity Forecast Tool allows for a more nuanced discussion around planning and understanding of the work a team can realistically complete, which helps to align business and delivery leaders with realistic expectations and better decisions when planning work that supports the organization’s strategic objectives.

Watch this video to learn how to use the Rally Capacity Forecast Tool to enhance decision making within your organization:

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Rally Capacity Planning Enhances Decision Making by Helping Organizations Embrace a Modern Mindset

Agile thinking implies Agile and adaptive planning. Rally’s Capacity Planning can be used to adapt and adjust to changing circumstances by leveraging current performance and planning data during team of teams quarterly planning activities. Rally’s Capacity Planning is instrumental in crafting plans for diverse portfolio items across various timeframes. Using historical data to forecast future demands and assessing the infrastructure and technology needs, stakeholders and team members gather the necessary information to start building plans. Using Rally’s Capacity Planning, organizations can build multiple plans over the same period to compare different plan strategies for “what if” analysis.  Once the optimal plan has been identified, it can be published and used to track the commitment.

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 enhance decision making in your organization, click here.

ValueOps OKRs Enhance Decision Making by Eliminating Misalignment Among Decision-Makers

An Agile mindset focuses on value delivery rather than predefined projects. Clarity and Rally’s OKRs help organizations achieve this by providing clear guiding objectives for all individuals and teams to help them understand what value delivery looks like. OKRs provide the consistency that helps maintain alignment even as the work itself evolves in response to changing conditions. OKRs make that alignment clear, ensuring everyone has a common understanding, and provides a performance context for all execution data. Because Rally OKRs enable you to associate execution work to the key results that drive objective progress, decision-makers can use them to see how the work being delivered is contributing to the objectives.

Rally Release Tracking Enhances Decision Making by Removing the Reliance on Outdated Ways of Working

Rally provides real-time release tracking, allowing organizations to understand what is always happening and embrace the ability of the organization to embrace agility. Rally Release Tracking provides a comprehensive overview of progress, enabling teams to get updates on the development process. By having a solid understanding of how each team is advancing within a release, an organization can accurately view progress, providing teams with the flexibility to pivot on scope or adjust scheduling, ensuring alignment with program goals. Release Tracking data minimizes surprises and uncertainties at the end of the release cycle, promoting a proactive and strategic approach that enhances overall efficiency and alignment with organizational objectives.

Watch this video to learn how to use Rally’s Release Tracking capability to enhance decision making:

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Rally Portfolio Kanban Enhances Decision Making by Providing Real-Time Insight Into Portfolio Performance

In today’s dynamic business environment, organizations can’t afford to stand still and must embrace agility to compete. A key element of an Agile mindset is the ability to optimize throughput. The Rally Portfolio Kanban helps you track the status of your portfolio items as they move along your portfolio process from analysis through delivery. The Portfolio Kanban helps you visualize and manage work at the organization level helping you to see how the work from the teams rolls up into features and initiatives. Using Rally’s Portfolio Kanban, organizations can create Work-in-Process limits to constrain and focus the number of items allowed to be active in each stage to optimize throughput.

Watch this video to learn how to use the Rally Portfolio Kanban to enhance decision making:

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Rally Insights Enhances Decision Making by Providing Detailed Insights Necessary to Embrace a Modern Mindset

An Agile mindset implies a desire and ability to see things from a different perspective. Rally Insights is a tool that helps you analyze the performance of teams and your organization as a whole over time. The Insights data can identify trends that help organizations understand and improve software development performance. Using Rally Insights, you can also compare the performance of a team to the overall performance of all the teams in your organization and to the industry at large. This unique performance data ultimately leads to better decisions and higher levels of performance.

Watch this video to learn how to use Rally Insights SDPI Metrics to enhance decision making within your organization:

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