DevOps

What is an enterprise agile planning tool?

Products that enable organizations to scale agile practices and provide a comprehensive enterprise view for the definition, planning and management of work. These tools evolved from project/team-centric tools to support a business-outcome-driven approach to managing agile software development.

What capabilities do these tools provide?

1. Project portfolio management

2. Strategic portfolio management

3. Value stream management

4. Value stream delivery

What are different organizational needs which these tools fulfill?

• Monthly, weekly and even daily incremental value delivery based on business outcomes

• Support for enterprise agile frameworks like Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

• Product roadmapping

• Increased visibility into the flow of work

• Management of work backlogs

• Collaboration capabilities for individuals and teams

• Management of cross-team dependencies

• Release planning and forecasting

• Visibility into the financial aspects of the work being done

What are key Enterprise Agile Planning Tools?

• JIRA Align - provides integrated support for multiple agile frameworks. Provides end-to-end visibility, traceability and insight into the flow of all product delivery processes, tying that all back through the value stream for efficiency

• Rally and Clarity from Broadcom - Focus on enterprise-scaled agile (Rally) supported by portfolio planning and management capabilities (Clarity). Improvements in capex tracking capabilities and integration with third-party tools.

• Digital.ai Agility - Full support for enterprise agile frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS and DAD. Merger of CollabNet VersionOne, XebiaLabs, Experitest, Numerify and Arxan Technologies to form Digital.ai

• Digité - SwiftKanban, SwiftEASe and SwiftEnterprise products are focused on providing support for SAFe with an emphasis on strong Kanban capabilities.

• Favor - Enterprise level agility, success in SaaS and Video Game industry, enterprise grade security, integration.

• Gitlab - Good for organizations managing product portfolios, all remote philosophy, developed by community. Limited support for SaaS

• IBM Engineering Workflow Management - Good support for SAFe.

• Infectra - SpiraTest (team), SpiraTeam (project) and SpiraPlan (enterprise). Inflectra provides a solution for a regulated environment requiring traceability from requirements to tests.

• Azure Boards - Direct integration with Github Enterprise

• Planisware - Planisware Enterprise and Planisware Orchestra tools are focused on a project and portfolio management (PPM)-based approach to enterprise-scale agile.

• Planview - Planview Enterprise One and Planview LeanKit are two products. Support for collaboration, objectives and key results (OKRs), product roadmapping and product-based dashboards.

• ServiceNow IT Business Management (ITBM) - Support for SAFe, AI/ML, integration with Azure Pipelines, Gitlab etc.

• Siemens - Polarion ALM and Polarion X. Polarion is well-suited for creating systems in a quality-sensitive, heavily regulated environment using agile methods. Organizations in regulated environments, and whose processes are subject to audit, emphasis on quality engineering and traceability.

• Targetprocess

• TCS Jile - TCS’s product roadmap for Jile is ambitious, encompassing enhanced portfolio management, Jile marketplace, Jile community and the incorporation of cognitive and other AI technologies.

Reference: https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-25YSX6JD&ct=210504&st=sb

We are summarizing few of the case studies from DEVOPS CASE STUDIES: The Journey to Positive Business Outcomes by IT Revolution. What case studies you have? Post in the comments below.

Technology Practice Journey:

APIs>Full Agile Practice Stack>Automation>CI/TDD>Lean, Concepts

Challenges:

Culture of stopping changes whenever something broke.

IT organization was too complex, with silos inside of silos

Server provisions took many teams, and there was no end-to-end accountability

Large amount of technology debt

Journey: 4 Stages.

Enabling and unleashing change agents,

cultivating and growing a grassroots movement,

getting top-down alignment,

figuring out how to scale across the enterprise.

What IT Leadership did?

Started internal DevOps Program

Engineers started to talk about infrastructure as a code

Did branding around technology

Bottom-up matched with top down.

DevOps and Agile started to become core talking points in townhalls

aligned with Thoughtworks’ CI/CD Maturity Model to baseline measure products

moved from a COBIT-based, highly-segmented model, to a product and service model

Shifted their delivery model from waterfall and project-based to product-based using Scrum and Kanban models.

Modern tech architecture: API based, loosely coupled, lightweight tooling, self-service, and optimized for cloud based and CI/CD practices.

converging the Agile and DevOps movements

Traditional training combined with hands-on immersive experiences.

They also created an internal incubator environment, like a transformation emergence center, called the Dojo, which became the place they went to practice their craft

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Ref: DEVOPS CASE STUDIES: The Journey to Positive Business Outcomes by IT Revolution. https://itrevolution.com

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