Reduce Organizational Friction

Reduce Organizational Friction: Use Case Overview

White Paper

Read this white paper for an overview of how ValueOps’ capabilities provide the tools needed to create a consistent understanding of your strategic objectives and align business and delivery teams on the work necessary to achieve those objectives.

Clarity OKRs Reduce Friction by Providing a Single Source of Truth

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 a high level overview of Clarity OKRs and how they help you enhance transparency within 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 create a single source of truth that reduces friction in your organization:

For more detailed information on how to create, view and manage Clarity OKRs to reduce friction in your organization, click here.

Watch this video to learn how to map and synchronize Clarity and Rally OKRs to improve transparency 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 Reduce Friction by Providing a Single Source of Truth

Rally OKRs provide a structured framework for defining clear, measurable objectives and aligning teams toward common goals. Rally OKRs enable you to associate work items to key results, providing near real time progress of strategic objectives for leadership. This transparency in goal setting fosters a shared understanding of strategic priorities, enabling business executives.

Watch this video to learn how Rally OKRs provide a single source of truth that reduces friction in your organization:

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 scrum teams:

Watch this video to learn how to view and manage Rally OKRs to provide a single source of truth that reduces friction in your organization: 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 provide a single source of truth that reduces friction in your organization, click here.

ValueOps ConnectALL Adapters and Automations Reduce Friction by Providing a Single Source of Truth

ConnectALL Adapters and Automations unlock data in tool silos, providing a single source of truth to reduce organizational friction. ConnectAll seamlessly bridges the gaps between diverse software applications that organizations depend on to deliver value to customers. ConnectALL’s primary role lies in facilitating a harmonious exchange of data and workflows across various tools that are used in application development and delivery, ensuring data flows as a unified system. ConnectALL also reduces friction by allowing teams to use the tools that they’re comfortable with, while maintaining a single source of truth to exist for leaders.

Watch this video to learn how to use ValueOps ConnectALL Adapters and Automations to help make delivery execution data visible and provide a single source of truth for your organization:

Rally Portfolio Kanban Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) Reduces Friction by Making Delivery Execution Data Visible

The Rally Portfolio Kanban CFD aggregates data across all teams in the organization working on the delivery of value for a defined portfolio or value stream. Rally’s Portfolio Kanban CFD provides a unified, comprehensive view, enabling the organization to see problems and manage them effectively. Using this ValueOps capability, organizations gain the ability to visualize, manage, and optimize their strategic initiatives, fostering a smoother, more streamlined operational landscape.

Watch this video to learn how to use Rally’s Portfolio Kanban Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) to help the organization see delivery execution problems and manage them effectively:

For more detailed information on how you can use Rally’s Portfolio Kanban Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) to reduce organizational friction, click here.

Rally Release Tracking Reduces Friction by Making Delivery Execution Data Visible

The Rally Release Tracking page is a central hub for monitoring the delivery of features by each team for specific agile releases. This capability provides a comprehensive overview of progress, enabling teams to get updates on the value delivery process. The Rally Release Tracking page 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 help reduce organizational friction:

For more detailed information on how to use Rally’s Release Tracking capability to reduce organizational friction, click here

Clarity Roadmaps Reduce Friction by Enabling Efficient Decision Making

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:

For more detailed information on how you can use Clarity Roadmaps to enable efficient decision making and reduce organizational friction in your organization, click here.

Rally Timeline Reduces Friction by Enabling Efficient Decision Making

As plans from roadmaps start to solidify, further refinement and decomposition is needed to put the plans in motion. As this happens, organizations can visualize these smaller chunks of work using the Rally Timeline capability where they can identify dependencies and visualize how work will get executed across teams. Timelines are instrumental in having the necessary conversations and negotiations to build healthy plan-based collaboration between all those invested in the success of the value stream.

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

For more detailed information on how you can use the Rally Timeline to enable efficient decision making and reduce organizational friction in your organization, click here.

Rally Insights Flow Metrics Reduce Friction by Helping Sustain New Features vs. Infrastructure

Rally Insights Flow Metrics at scale aggregate data across multiple teams. Providing insights into the value being delivered to the customer and how to optimize the flow of value for efficiency improvements. These metrics help organizations identify patterns and changes in the balance of different types of work so they can ensure they are building a healthy, sustainable delivery engine while delighting their customers with new functionality.

Watch this video to learn how to use Rally Insights Flow Metrics data to reduce friction in your organization and resolve delivery issues:

For more detailed information on how to use Rally Insights Flow metrics to reduce friction in your organization, click here.

Rally Capacity Planning Reduces Friction by Helping Sustain New Features vs. Infrastructure

Rally’s Capacity Planning ensures resources are utilized efficiently, work is completed on time, and the delivery teams are adequately equipped to balance business demands while concurrently building and maintaining healthy software systems.

Using Rally’s Capacity Planning, organizations can craft plans for diverse portfolio items across various timeframes. Organizations can also build multiple plans over the same period to compare different plan strategies for “what if” analysis.  Once the optimal plan to balance new features with infrastructure has been identified, it can be published and used to track delivery teams’ commitments.

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 reduce friction in your organization, click here.

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