ValueOps: Implementing Frictionless Cost Accounting

In today’s high-velocity engineering landscape, manual time tracking is a significant "time sink" that inhibits innovation and disrupts developer focus. This course provides a comprehensive guide to implementing and managing ValueOps Frictionless Cost Accounting (FCA)—a market-leading solution that revolutionizes IT financial management. By automating the integration between Rally (agile execution) and Clarity (financial monitoring), FCA eliminates burdensome manual timesheets and provides trustworthy, real-time visibility into labor costs and Agile capitalization.

Upon completion, you will receive a badge and a course completion certificate.

Here is what you will learn:

• Setup & Activation: Learn to configure the core integration, define Financial Work Types (e.g., New Feature Development, Technical Debt), and activate the FCA instance.

• System Configuration: Master the mapping of Clarity investments to Rally Portfolio Items (Features) and define how data is exchanged through object and field mappings.

• Data Synchronization: Learn how to link teams and resources across platforms to ensure consistent and aligned financial and engineering data.

• Automated Timesheet Integration: Understand how Rally converts story points into timesheet hours to automate the capture of engineering effort.

• Post-Timesheet Governance: Learn to verify actual costs, convert work types into tasks, and manage the automated submission and approval of timesheets.