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Foster Collaboration
Learn how business and delivery leaders can use ValueOps to plan and steer progress together through shared tooling and accurate, trustworthy data.
Use ValueOps to Foster Collaboration
Businesses today are experiencing an unforeseen and unprecedented rate of change that shows no signs of slowing. Natural growth and evolution are being replaced by deliberate business transformation. All enterprise transformation is centered around, and dependent on, people and their work. Any successful transformation requires the effective collaboration, engagement, and motivation of those people. It requires the fostering of effective collaboration between individuals and across teams. Through effective collaboration, teams can establish a more customer-centric environment, one in which employees are highly engaged in delivering value to customers. Effective collaboration can help reduce employee turnover, resulting in greater retention of talent and faster delivery of value for customers.
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White Paper
October 1, 2024
Foster Collaboration
Plan and steer progress together through shared tooling and accurate, trustworthy data.
Clarity Hierarchies Foster Collaboration by Helping Organizations Align Silos and Orchestrate Diverse Teams
Using Clarity Hierarchies, organizations can create value streams that form the catalyst for improved collaboration. Clarity Hierarchies provide visibility into all the people and technology that make up each value stream. This enables the funding of the teams doing the work rather than a standalone piece of work, which reduces friction, harmonizes teams around the common goal of improving value flow, and encourages continuous improvement of the value stream.
Watch this video to learn how to use Clarity Hierarchies to align silos and orchestrate diverse teams.
For more detailed information on how you can use Clarity Hierarchies to foster collaboration, click here.
ValueOps OKRs Foster Collaboration by Helping Organizations Align Silos and Orchestrate Diverse Teams
ValueOps OKRs define a common outcome that needs to be achieved, helping all teams to understand what it will take to be successful and provide a foundation for collaboration. Additionally, OKRs enable teams to recognize and measure the progress they are making, helping them to validate actions and confirm that the right improvements are being delivered.
Clarity OKRs
Watch this video to see a high level overview of Clarity OKRs and how they provide a single source of truth for your organization.
Watch this video to see how to create OKRs in Clarity to set a cohesive high-level strategy for your value stream.
Watch this video to see how to view and manage Clarity OKRs to create a single source of truth that enhances decision making in your organization.
For more detailed information on how to create, view and manage Clarity OKRs to align silos and orchestrate diverse teams, click here.
ValueOps OKRs Integration
Watch this video to learn how to map and synchronize Clarity and Rally OKRs to define and track metrics that matter in your organization.
For more detailed information on how to map and synchronize Clarity and Rally OKRs using the Clarity Connections integration, click here.
Rally OKRs
Watch this video to learn how Rally OKRs define and track metrics that matter in your organization to align business and delivery.
Watch this video to learn how to create OKRs in Rally that let you set multi-level goals and track those goals based on the completion of planned work by your delivery teams.
Watch this video to learn how to view and manage Rally OKRs to define and track metrics that matter in your organization to align business and delivery.
Watch this video to learn how to associate a work item with Rally OKRs to help delivery teams understand how their work connects to strategic objectives.
For detailed information about how to use Rally OKRs to align silos and orchestrate diverse teams, click here.
Clarity Staffing Workspace Fosters Collaboration by Helping Organizations Utilize Resources Effectively
The Clarity Staffing Workspace provides the ability to employ a people-centric planning approach that enables leaders to collaborate on resource allocations. Leaders can optimize a team's capacity to deliver work, while eliminating scenarios where individuals are asked to do too much. Using the Clarity Staffing workspace to collaborate on resource allocations cultivates an environment in which individuals and teams are better able to collaborate and deliver work.
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 foster collaboration, click here.
Clarity Tasks Foster Collaboration by Providing Teams Using Different Methodologies an Effective Way to Work Together
Individuals and Teams can use Clarity Tasks to track their work or any other type of execution-based metric, while still providing leaders with visibility into value-based metrics at the value stream level. That same insight is available to other work teams and collaborators, serving to provide a common language for all stakeholders and to help break down silos. Clarity tasks help teams leverage intuitive views of all work needed to deliver value, the status of that work, dependencies between tasks, etc. Teams can also view work in terms of tasks—including for individuals, teams, work items, and so on. Alternatively, they can visualize their work on a timeline, which enables them to see how different elements come together, understand dependencies, and view the evolution of the value stream.
Watch this video to learn how to manage tasks using the Task Timeline layout.
Watch this video to learn how to manage tasks using the Board Layout.
Watch this video to learn how to manage tasks using the Grid Layout.
For more detailed information on how to use Clarity Tasks to foster collaboration, click here.
ValueOps Insights Fosters Collaboration by Consolidating and Presenting Data from Teams Using Different
Ways of Working
ValueOps Insights enables organizations to share information from the entire organization to provide complete transparency to all stakeholders, so agility can be realized. ValueOps Insights consolidates and presents information from multiple applications and platforms so everybody can share a common understanding of what is happening, allowing collaboration in areas where it was not previously feasible. The ValueOps Insights knowledge platform can be shared with everyone, enabling training and development programs to evolve based on learnings to better support future efforts. The organization will be exposed to fewer risks, employees are more engaged and productive, making value flow faster.
For more detailed information on how ValueOps Insights leverages accurate investment performance data to consolidate and present data from teams using different ways of working, click here.
Roadmaps provide a common definition of the work and its drivers so everyone can understand what is needed, why it’s necessary, how performance is to be measured, and how customer and business value will be determined.
Watch this video to learn how to create, configure and use Clarity Roadmaps to provide a common definition of work and why it is needed.
For more detailed information on how you can use Clarity Roadmaps to foster collaboration in your organization, click here.
Rally Portfolio Kanban Fosters Collaboration by Visualizing Work for Teams Using Different Ways of Working
The Rally Portfolio Kanban fosters collaboration by helping organizations manage and measure work across different levels or methodologies. The Rally Portfolio Kanban enables business leaders to provide a summary of the work to be done that is simple to produce, communicate, and understand. The Portfolio Kanban provides a common definition of the work and its drivers, greatly improving collaboration and eliminating the inefficiencies caused by incomplete or unclear information.
Watch this video to learn how to use the Rally Portfolio Kanban to visualize work for teams using different ways of working.
For more detailed information on how you can use Rally Portfolio Kanban to foster collaboration in your organization, click here.
Clarity Status Reporting Fosters Collaboration by Providing a Consolidated Status of All Work Tied to a Specific Business
Strategy or Goal
Clarity Status reporting fosters collaboration by providing a consolidated status for all work tied to a specific business strategy or goal. Clarity Status reporting provides a single, unified view of work in progress, regardless of the approach being used by the teams executing the work. Clarity status enables users to drill down into consolidated views to gain greater detail. Customized status views enable analysis to happen at all levels of the organization. Work status can be contextualized to the needs of each stakeholder and can act as a catalyst for insight, enabling better decision making in less time, and with greater stakeholder confidence.
Watch this video to learn how to use Clarity Status reporting to provide a consolidated status of all work tied to a specific business strategy or goal.
For more detailed information on how you can use Clarity Status reporting to foster collaboration in your organization, click here.
Clarity Collaborative Work Management Fosters Collaboration by Enabling Organizations to Work Together More Effectively
ValueOps has dedicated collaborative work management functionality that provides a simple, intuitive way for people to work together. With this functionality, teams can update, automate, and share to do lists, checklists and agreements that directly align with the organization’s strategic roadmaps. This communication ensures alignment is always maintained and allows teams to see how they are directly contributing to goals and objectives, while operating in a way that enables them to be more effective and efficient.
Watch this video to learn how to use Clarity Collaborative Work Management to help organizations work together more effectively.
For more detailed information on how you can use Clarity Collaborative Work Management to foster collaboration in your organization, click here.
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